SMSERT-DETR: spatial multi-scale efficient real-time detector for maize disease detection
摘要
Maize disease detection in natural environments presents multiple challenges, including weak target features, background noise interference, and high model complexity. To address these issues, we propose a spatial multi-scale efficient real-time detector (SMSERT-DETR). The network integrates a SwConv-ResNet backbone to reduce redundant computation, along with an efficient attention module that enhances the detection of weak feature regions and improves recognition of subtle disease symptoms. Furthermore, we introduce a novel spatial multi-scale feature fusion architecture that suppresses irrelevant background noise and captures multi-scale target features, thereby further improving the model’s feature extraction capabilities. Experimental results on the PlantVillage maize disease dataset demonstrate that our proposed method achieves a precision of 93.6%, recall of 85.7%, mAP50 of 92%, and mAP50:95 of 77%, significantly outperforming other common object detection algorithms on the same dataset. Additionally, SMSERT-DETR achieves an 18.4% reduction in GFLOPS and a 33% reduction in parameter count, enabling efficient deployment in resource-constrained environments.