Hybrid Deep Learning for Plant Disease Detection on the PlantVillage Dataset: A Precision Agriculture Solution
摘要
Accurate and timely plant disease identification is critical for global food security, yet automated methods often face challenges in effectively integrating diverse feature types. This paper introduces a hybrid deep learning architecture for precision agriculture, combining visual features from advanced CNNs such as ConvNeXtV2-L, Swin-L, and ResNet152d with handcrafted structural features. Feature integration is achieved through a sophisticated multi-stage process involving attention-based adapters, a transformer encoder for inter-backbone fusion, and a multi-head attention mechanism for final hybrid modality fusion. Evaluated on the standard 38-class Plant Village dataset test split, the proposed model demonstrates exceptional performance, achieving 99.85% accuracy and a 99.85% weighted F1-score. This work highlights the efficacy of combining diverse feature sources through advanced, attention-guided fusion techniques, presenting a highly accurate and robust solution for automated plant disease diagnosis in precision agriculture.