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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Plant Sci.
Sec. Sustainable and Intelligent Phytoprotection
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1485903
This article is part of the Research Topic Precision Information Identification and Integrated Control: Pest Identification, Crop Health Monitoring, and Field Management View all 8 articles

Advancing Precision Agriculture with Deep Learning Enhanced SIS-YOLOv8 for Solanaceae Crop Monitoring

Provisionally accepted
Ruiqian Qin Ruiqian Qin 1Yiming Wang Yiming Wang 2*Xiaoyan Liu Xiaoyan Liu 1,3*Helong Yu Helong Yu 1*
  • 1 Jilin Agriculture University, Changchun, China
  • 2 Changchun Institute of Education, Changchun, China
  • 3 Changchun Sci-Tech University, Changchun, China

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    Potatoes and tomatoes are important Solanaceae crops that require effective disease monitoring for optimal agricultural production. Traditional disease monitoring methods rely on manual visual inspection, which is inefficient and prone to subjective bias. The application of deep learning in image recognition has led to object detection models such as YOLO (You Only Look Once), which have shown high efficiency in disease identification. However, complex climatic conditions in real agricultural environments challenge model robustness, and current mainstream models struggle with accurate recognition of the same diseases across different plant species. To address these issues, this paper proposes the SIS-YOLOv8 model, which enhances adaptability to complex agricultural climates by improving the YOLOv8 network structure. The research introduces three key modules: 1) a Fusion-Inception Conv module to improve feature extraction against complex backgrounds like rain and haze; 2) a C2f-SIS module incorporating Style Randomization to enhance generalization ability for different crop diseases and extract more detailed disease features; and 3) an SPPF-IS module to boost model robustness through feature fusion. To reduce the model's parameter size, this study employs the Dep Graph pruning method, significantly decreasing parameter volume by 19.9% and computational load while maintaining accuracy.Experimental results show that the SIS-YOLOv8 model outperforms the original YOLOv8n model in disease detection tasks for potatoes and tomatoes, with improvements of 8.2% in accuracy, 4% in recall rate, 5.9% in mAP50, and 6.3% in mAP50-95. Through these network structure optimizations, the SIS-YOLOv8 model demonstrates enhanced adaptability to complex agricultural environments, offering an effective solution for automatic crop disease detection. By improving model efficiency and robustness, our approach not only advances agricultural disease monitoring but also contributes to the broader adoption of AI-driven solutions for sustainable crop management in diverse climates.

    Keywords: deep learning, Detection of diseases, object detection, YOLOv8, Digital agriculture

    Received: 25 Aug 2024; Accepted: 02 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Qin, Wang, Liu and Yu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Yiming Wang, Changchun Institute of Education, Changchun, China
    Xiaoyan Liu, Jilin Agriculture University, Changchun, China
    Helong Yu, Jilin Agriculture University, Changchun, China

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