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arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 19

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

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
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
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