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Automated severity level estimation of wheat rust using an EfficientNet-CBAM hybrid model.

Sapna Nigam¹, Rajni Jain², Vaibhav Kumar Singh³

¹Division of Computer Applications, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi, India.

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Accurately estimating wheat rust severity is crucial for crop protection. This study developed an automated model using EfficientNet and attention mechanisms, achieving high accuracy for early disease detection and management.

Keywords:

EfficientNet architecture attention mechanism disease severity estimation transfer learning wheat rust

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Area of Science:

Agricultural Science
Plant Pathology
Computer Vision

Background:

Wheat rust diseases cause significant global crop losses, impacting yield and quality.
Accurate and timely disease severity estimation is vital for effective agricultural management.
Early detection of wheat rust enables prompt intervention to mitigate crop damage.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop an automated model for accurate wheat rust severity stage estimation.
To improve feature extraction in deep learning models for plant disease identification.
To create a practical tool for real-time disease assessment in the field.

Main Methods:

Utilized the EfficientNet-B0 architecture integrated with a convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM).
Trained the model on a diverse image dataset of wheat rust (stripe, stem, leaf) and healthy plants.
Categorized disease severity into four stages: healthy, low, medium, and high.

Main Results:

The proposed model achieved a high training accuracy of 99.51% and testing accuracy of 96.68%.
Demonstrated superior performance compared to other state-of-the-art Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models.
Developed an Android application for real-time wheat rust severity classification.

Conclusions:

The developed EfficientNet-B0 model with CBAM effectively automates wheat rust severity estimation.
The system offers a promising solution for early disease detection and management in wheat cultivation.
The mobile application provides a user-friendly tool for farmers to monitor crop health.