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arXiv Computer Vision By Mayur Pratim Das, Ajai Dubey, Aksshay Mathew P, Sana Afreen, Rishi Kumar Soni, Deepak Meena, Pratibha Kumari, Mukesh Saini

A100: A Hybrid Vision Foundation Model for Agricultural Plant Image Analysis

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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.

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