AgriDefend is a $205 consumer‑grade edge device that fuses canopy imagery and soil probe data to detect crop stress before visible symptoms appear. It uses a MobileNetV2 CNN for image analysis, a Random Forest for soil trend features, and a logistic‑regression meta‑learner to produce a five‑class crop‑health prediction, all running on a Raspberry Pi 5 without cloud connectivity. In a greenhouse drought trial with wild radish, the fused model achieved 87 % accuracy and its soil signals predicted wilting about four days earlier than visual signs.
By George Xu, Nikhil Vincent, Elizabeth S. Forbes
arXiv:2609.10469v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Automated plant disease diagnosis is increasingly deployed on farmer-held devices in regions where agronomic expertise is scarce and network connectivi...
By Md. Abdullah Mandal, Saad Ahmed, Md. Khalid Syfullah
The paper introduces a dataset‑centric benchmark for deep learning approaches to grape leaf disease classification and detection. It evaluates publicly available datasets on disease categories, annotations, acquisition conditions, and class distributions, and tests representative models across image‑level classification, region‑level classification, and object detection. Results reveal high accuracy on controlled datasets but significant performance drops on heterogeneous, real‑world data, especially in cross‑dataset transfer and object detection tasks.
By Petar Canoski, Vlatko Spasev, Ivica Dimitrovski, Ivan Kitanovski, Petre Lameski
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
FedXCrop is a federated learning pipeline for crop disease classification that preserves farmer privacy while providing post‑aggregation explainability. The system uses a MobileNetV2 model and achieves near‑centralized accuracy (98.81%–99.38%) across five clients, even under non‑IID label skew. Grad‑CAM and SmoothGrad explanations are quantitatively evaluated, showing that federated models largely retain explainability characteristics of centralized models, though agreement decreases with increased heterogeneity.
By Kriti Saini, Manikandan P
arXiv:2607. 06585v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Plant diseases, resulting from both biotic and abiotic stresses, cause an estimated 20-40% loss in global agricultural yield annually, resulting in economic damages exceeding USD 220 billion.
By Raunak Kumar, Soumyashree Kar
The paper presents an automated pipeline that uses unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) multispectral imagery and a Vision Transformer to detect wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV) at the plant level. While the model achieved 89% accuracy on over 6,500 test patches using treatment-based labels, ELISA-based ground truth revealed significant label noise, indicating that the high accuracy was largely due to label bias rather than true disease detection. When evaluated against more reliable row‑level symptom severity and plant‑level ELISA labels, both deep learning and classical machine learning models showed limited generalization and weak separability between infected and mock‑inoculated plants, underscoring the importance of biologically grounded labels and realistic data conditions for UAS‑based disease detection.
By Dewi Endah Kharismawati, Sandeep Dhakal, Courtney E. McCusker, Jennifer R. Wilson, Erik W. Ohlson, Sami Khanal
The paper presents a configurable multi‑stage vision pipeline for Farmer.Chat, a farm advisory service that processes farmer‑submitted crop photos. It splits the task into a quality gate, a crop detector, and a disease/pest detector, offering two routes: a single fine‑tuned vision‑language model and a set of small specialist models. The new pipeline improves crop accuracy to 95.41% and provides a fast MobileNetV3 quality gate, while retaining the ability to request better photos and answer all queries in one call.
By Naga Ganesh, Chandrashekar M S, Lakshmi Pedapudi, Aakash Singh, Vineet Singh
A100 is a hybrid CNN‑Transformer vision foundation model trained on 3 million unlabeled agricultural images using self‑supervised techniques (DINO, iBOT, KoLeo). It achieves superior crop classification (95.37 % with a frozen backbone) and phenotyping accuracy, and after fine‑tuning reaches 99.90 % on 32‑class crop identification and 99.02 % on 44‑class disease detection. With only 1 % of labeled data, A100 attains 98.01 % plant classification accuracy, outperforming existing baselines and other agricultural foundation models by significant margins.
By Mayur Pratim Das, Ajai Dubey, Aksshay Mathew P, Sana Afreen, Rishi Kumar Soni, Deepak Meena, Pratibha Kumari, Mukesh Saini
The paper presents a lightweight YOLOv8n-based deep learning framework for detecting beetle damage on banana fruits by classifying visible surface conditions as healthy or unhealthy. Using a custom dataset of 2,473 images from Bangladesh, the model achieved 81.36% precision, 74.30% recall, and 77.67% F1-score on a test set, with a 5.96 MB checkpoint and 6.54 ms per image inference on an NVIDIA Tesla T4. The results demonstrate that YOLOv8n can serve as a compact baseline for instance-level banana surface inspection under the studied conditions.
By Md. Mehedi Hasan Naeem, Ishtiyak Ahmmad Araf, Md. Arefin Haque Mahir, Tushar Kanti Saha
arXiv:2608.20663v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Public datasets for agricultural disease detection are usually judged fit for use from reported metrics, which say nothing about whether the annotation...
By Pushuo Wang (Shenyang Institute of Technology)
arXiv:2610.15049v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: This study evaluates and compares five convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures, AlexNet, Inception, LeNet, VGG16, and MobileNet, for diagn...
By Ronilson Rodrigues Pinho, Elua Ramos Coutinho, Nilza de Lima Pereira Sales, Sildenir Aalves Ribeiro, Sergio Manuel Serra da Cruz