arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 21

Configurable Multi-Stage Vision Pipeline for Crop Disease and Pest Diagnosis

The paper presents a configurable multi‑stage vision pipeline for Farmer.Chat, a farm advisory service that processes farmer‑submitted crop photos. It splits the task into a quality gate, a crop detector, and a disease/pest detector, offering two routes: a single fine‑tuned vision‑language model and a set of small specialist models. The new pipeline improves crop accuracy to 95.41% and provides a fast MobileNetV3 quality gate, while retaining the ability to request better photos and answer all queries in one call.

By Naga Ganesh, Chandrashekar M S, Lakshmi Pedapudi, Aakash Singh, Vineet Singh