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Multi-kernel inception-enhanced vision transformer for plant leaf disease recognition.
Sk Mahmudul Hassan1, Kumar Sekhar Roy2, Ruhul Amin Hazarika2
1Manipal Institute of Technology Bengaluru, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, 576104, India. mahmudul.hassan@manipal.edu.
Accurate plant disease identification is crucial for crop protection. This study introduces an Inception-Enhanced Vision Transformer (IEViT) model that effectively identifies plant diseases using both lab and real-world images, outperforming existing methods.
Area of Science:
- Agricultural Science
- Computer Vision
- Machine Learning
Background:
- Accurate plant disease identification is vital for crop yield and food security.
- Manual identification is labor-intensive and requires specialized expertise.
- Existing computer vision models often struggle with real-world field conditions.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop a robust deep learning architecture for plant disease identification.
- To address the limitations of current models in handling diverse image conditions (lab vs. real-field).
- To improve the accuracy and efficiency of automated plant disease diagnosis.
Main Methods:
- Proposed an Inception-Enhanced Vision Transformer (IEViT) architecture.
- IEViT integrates local and global feature extraction capabilities.
- Utilized multiple filters with varying kernel sizes for efficient feature learning.
- Conducted experiments on five diverse datasets, including lab and real-field images.
Main Results:
- The IEViT model demonstrated superior performance compared to state-of-the-art deep learning models.
- Achieved high accuracy rates across multiple datasets: 99.23% (apple leaf), 99.70% (rice), 97.02% (i-bean), 76.51% (cassava leaf), and 99.41% (plantvillage).
- The proposed architecture achieved these results with fewer parameters than existing models.
Conclusions:
- The Inception-Enhanced Vision Transformer (IEViT) is a robust and efficient architecture for plant disease identification.
- IEViT effectively handles variations in image conditions, performing well on both laboratory and real-field data.
- This approach offers a promising solution for automated, accurate, and scalable plant disease diagnosis in agriculture.

