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