arXiv AI
Oct 12

AgroGround: Multi-Granularity Grounded Recognition in Agriculture

AgroGround is a large‑scale dataset that links plant disease and agricultural target labels to image regions, enabling models to both recognize and localize these targets. It was created by automatically converting eight agricultural VQA datasets into 794,850 grounded instruction examples, including healthy images for negative supervision. Fine‑tuning a shared vision‑language model on these instructions improves recognition, joint accuracy, and healthy‑image abstention, outperforming its annotation teacher on both the AgroGround benchmark and the external PlantSeg test set.

By Abdulla Alshehhi, Zongyan Han, Rao Muhammad Anwer
arXiv Computer Vision
1d ago

FedXCrop: Privacy-Preserving Crop Disease Detection via Federated Learning with Post-Aggregation Explainability under Non-IID Farm Distributions

FedXCrop is a federated learning pipeline for crop disease classification that preserves farmer privacy while providing post‑aggregation explainability. The system uses a MobileNetV2 model and achieves near‑centralized accuracy (98.81%–99.38%) across five clients, even under non‑IID label skew. Grad‑CAM and SmoothGrad explanations are quantitatively evaluated, showing that federated models largely retain explainability characteristics of centralized models, though agreement decreases with increased heterogeneity.

By Kriti Saini, Manikandan P
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 24

A Dataset-Centric Benchmark of Deep Learning Methods for Grape Leaf Disease Classification and Detection

The paper introduces a dataset‑centric benchmark for deep learning approaches to grape leaf disease classification and detection. It evaluates publicly available datasets on disease categories, annotations, acquisition conditions, and class distributions, and tests representative models across image‑level classification, region‑level classification, and object detection. Results reveal high accuracy on controlled datasets but significant performance drops on heterogeneous, real‑world data, especially in cross‑dataset transfer and object detection tasks.

By Petar Canoski, Vlatko Spasev, Ivica Dimitrovski, Ivan Kitanovski, Petre Lameski