arXiv Computer Vision

A Parameter-efficient Convolutional Approach for Camouflaged Weed Detection in Multispectral Aerial Imagery

arXiv AI
Aug 24

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

arXiv:2505.18930v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Early weed identification is crucial for effective management and control, and researchers, agronomists, and technology developers are increa...

By Yanben Shen, Timilehin T. Ayanlade, Venkata Naresh Boddepalli, Mojdeh Saadati, Ashlyn Rairdin, Zi K. Deng, Muhammad Arbab Arshad, Aditya Balu, Daren Mueller, Asheesh K Singh, Wesley Everman, Nirav Merchant, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Meaghan Anderson, Soumik Sarkar, Arti Singh
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 24

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
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 Machine Learning
Sep 18

TinyCNN: A 193K-Parameter Network for On-Device Plant Disease Detection, with a Cross-Dataset Robustness Diagnosis

TinyCNN is a lightweight convolutional neural network with only 193,190 trainable parameters designed for on‑device plant disease classification. It achieves 98.88% test accuracy on the 38‑class PlantVillage benchmark, outperforming larger models while consuming far less energy, memory, and cost. The study also explores knowledge distillation to further compress the model and evaluates cross‑dataset robustness, finding a significant performance drop when moving from PlantVillage to PlantDoc due to background‑driven shortcut learning.

By Ngoc-Bao Ho-Lam, Thai-Anh Nguyen
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 4

Comparison of Deep Learning Frameworks For Rice Disease Mapping From UAV Multispectral Imaging

In this study, UAV multispectral imagery is used to segment the severity of bacterial leaf blight (BLB) in rice using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformer-based models. The evaluated architectures include U-Net with a ResNet- 101 encoder, U-Net++ with EfficientNet-B3 and EfficientNetB7, DeepLabV3+, and SegFormer, all trained under a common pipeline with three input configurations (multispectral only, multispectral+NDVI, and multispectral+NDRE).

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 28

CSCWD: Cross-Scale Channel-wise Knowledge Distillation for Lightweight Tiny Object Detection on Edge Devices

The paper introduces Cross-Scale Channel-wise Knowledge Distillation (CSCWD), a training-time framework that transfers high‑resolution spatial representations from a YOLO11m‑P2 teacher to a lightweight YOLO11n student without changing the student’s inference architecture. CSCWD aligns teacher P2 features with student P3 while also applying same‑scale distillation at deeper pyramid levels, yielding a 2.92‑point mAP@0.5 improvement over the baseline and a 2.09‑point gain over same‑scale distillation alone. In zero‑shot tests on DUT‑Anti‑UAV and on a Raspberry Pi 5, the 2.58‑million‑parameter student reaches 50.32% mAP@0.5 at 82.32 ms latency (12.15 fps) with negligible runtime or memory increase.

By Amir Zamani, Zeinab Ghasemi-Naraghi
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 17

CoAtNet-DeepMoE: A Convolution-Attention Hybrid with DeepSeek Mixture-of-Experts for Parameter-Efficient Tomato Disease Classification

CoAtNet-DeepMoE is a lightweight Convolution‑Attention hybrid architecture that incorporates a DeepSeek Mixture‑of‑Experts to reduce parameters while maintaining high accuracy for tomato disease classification. The model achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on Kaggle and PlantVillage datasets, reporting 99.80% accuracy on Kaggle and 99.83% accuracy on PlantVillage, all with only 2.47 million parameters. The source code will be released on GitHub.

By Md Nadim Mahamood, Md Arif Shahriar, Md Shafi Ud Doula, Kamrul Hasan