arXiv AI

WeedNet: A Foundation Model-Based Global-to-Local AI Approach for Real-Time Weed Species Identification and Classification

arXiv Machine Learning
5d ago

On the Transferability of Agricultural Weed Detection Under Cross-Field Distribution Shift

arXiv:2608.21254v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate agricultural weed detection in real-world field conditions is essential for precision agriculture, enabling targeted intervention and reduci...

By Nikhilesh Prabhakar, Pranuthi Tenali, Wilfredo Abudeye Fernandez, Shekhar Borah, Athresh Karanam, Erik Blasch, Prabha Sundaravadivel, Sriraam Natarajan
arXiv AI
Jul 8

EcoVision: AI-Powered Drone Imaging for Salt Marsh Vegetation Monitoring and Dominance Mapping

arXiv:2607. 06105v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-resolution RGB imagery acquired from low-altitude UAV surveys was processed through a modular pipeline incorporating transformer-based semantic segmentation, connected-component vegetation extraction, fine-grained species classification using a ConvNeXt architecture, and grid-based dominance scoring at 2x2m resolution.

By Innocent Onyenonachi, Peter J. Lawerance, Nadia Kanwal
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Attention mechanisms and transfer learning for robust peach leaf damage classification under domain shift

arXiv:2606. 02045v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence provides a practical framework for crop damage assessment from imagery data, supporting early decision-making in agricultural management.

By Adri\'an C\'anovas-Rodriguez, Miguel A. Gonz\'alez-Ill\'an, Maria Fernanda Garc\'ia-Cruz, Pedro Nortes Tortosa, Jos\'e Salvador Rubio-Asensio, Miguel A. Zamora Izquierdo, Juan Antonio Mart\'inez Navarro, Antonio F. Skarmeta
arXiv AI
Aug 12

A Comparative Evaluation of Deep Learning Object Detection Models on a Real-World Multi-Plant Dataset from Africa

arXiv:2608. 11053v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The application of computer vision in agriculture has shown significant potential for improving crop monitoring and precision farming.

By Ismail Ismail Tijjani, Sunusi Muhammad Ibrahim, Amina Ibrahim Khaleel, Lanre Olusegun Akinola, Fatima Isa Jibrin, Muhammad Bashir Aliyu, Abdullahi Abdussalam Dalhat, Abdullahi Suiudeen
arXiv AI
Aug 3

Leveraging Image Generators to Address Data Scarcity: The Gen4Regen Dataset for Forest Regeneration Mapping

arXiv:2605. 05627v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sustainable forest management relies on precise species composition mapping, yet traditional ground surveys are labour-intensive and geographically constrained.

By Gabriel Jeanson, David-Alexandre Duclos, William Larriv\'ee-Hardy, No\'e Cochet, Mat\v{e}j Boxan, Anthony Desch\^enes, Fran\c{c}ois Pomerleau, Philippe Gigu\`ere
arXiv Computer Vision
2d ago

Fusing Perceptual Vision Experts with Multimodal Large Language Models for Explainable Plant Disease Diagnosis: From Benchmark Imagery to Real-World Robotic Field Validation

The paper introduces the Hybrid Hierarchical Multi-Agent Framework (H$^{2}$MAF), which fuses decision-level outputs from EfficientNet-B3 and ConvNeXt-Tiny with semantic arbitration by multimodal large language models Gemma 4 E4B and Qwen3.5 4B to produce explainable plant disease diagnoses. Evaluated on 14,364 images from PlantDoc and two Cornell robotic field datasets, the framework achieves up to 99.3% accuracy, with Gemma improving PlantDoc accuracy from 63.9% to 68.5% and demonstrating low critical‑risk error. The results highlight the potential of MLLM arbitration for reliable, explainable agricultural AI under real‑world field conditions.

By Ranjan Sapkota, Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis, Pengyao Xie, Nikolaos D. Tselikas, Lirong Xiang, Manoj Karkee