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.
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.
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.
arXiv:2609.25040v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Banana crop diseases threaten food security across the world, yet field diagnosis remains difficult because of limited expert access and visual simil...
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.
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...
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.
arXiv:2608.23636v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small-object detection and instance segmentation remain challenging in orchard environments because of green-on-green similarity, occlusion, and limite...
This study evaluates the instance‑segmentation performance of YOLOv11 and YOLOv8 on immature green apples in orchard settings. YOLO11n‑seg achieved the highest mask precision (0.831), while YOLO11m‑seg and YOLO11l‑seg excelled in non‑occluded and occluded fruitlet segmentation. YOLOv8n, however, outperformed the YOLO11 series in inference speed, reaching 3.3 ms compared to 4.8 ms for the fastest YOLO11 model.
arXiv:2608.28161v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mango variety identification in Bangladesh is challenging because closely related cultivars can have similar visual characteristics and images are of...
arXiv:2606. 14871v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Early detection of plant diseases is crucial to plants and for the farmers.
The study presents a deep‑learning object detection framework that identifies products derived from threatened species—elephant, pangolin, and tiger—using real‑world images from online marketplaces, enforcement seizures, and market inspections. Trained on 39,941 images, the best model achieved 84.2% overall accuracy, with 93.6% for pangolin, 90.3% for tiger, and 71.1% for elephant. The optimized model was deployed in a prototype smartphone app, which reached 91.3% accuracy and an F‑score of 0.86 on an independent test set, demonstrating its potential for real‑time monitoring of wildlife trade.
The paper compares Ultralytics YOLO27, YOLO26, YOLO11, and YOLOv8 for detecting and segmenting small fruit parts in orchard settings. It evaluates five model scales across 30 experiments, finding that YOLO11s-960 and YOLO26s-960 achieve the best mask and box mAP scores while maintaining efficient parameter counts. The study also highlights the difficulty of peduncle detection and provides publicly available code and models for reproducibility.