MCFFA-Net: Multi-Contextual Feature Fusion and Attention Guided Network for Apple Foliar Disease Classification

Numerous diseases cause severe economic loss in the apple production-based industry. Early disease identification in apple leaves can help to stop the spread of infections and provide better productivity. Therefore, it is crucial to study the identification and classification of different apple foli...

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Published in2022 25th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT) pp. 757 - 762
Main Authors Ahmed, Md. Rayhan, Ferdous Ashrafi, Adnan, Ahmed, Raihan Uddin, Ahmed, Tanveer
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 17.12.2022
Subjects
Apple leaf disease
Computer architecture
Convolutional Neural Network
Deep Learning
Ensemble Learning
Feature extraction
Performance evaluation
Plant diseases
Productivity
Robustness
Training
Transfer Learning
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Summary:Numerous diseases cause severe economic loss in the apple production-based industry. Early disease identification in apple leaves can help to stop the spread of infections and provide better productivity. Therefore, it is crucial to study the identification and classification of different apple foliar diseases. Various traditional machine learning and deep learning methods have addressed and investigated this issue. However, it is still challenging to classify these diseases because of their complex background, variation in the diseased spot in the images, and the presence of several symptoms of multiple diseases on the same leaf. This paper proposes a novel transfer learning-based stacked ensemble architecture named Multi-Contextual Feature Fusion Network (MCFFA-Net). MCFFA-Net incorporates three pre-trained architectures: MobileNetV2, DenseNet201, and In-ceptionResNetV2 as backbone networks for effective feature extraction and shorter training time. We integrate a novel multi-scale dilated residual convolution module in the network that captures multi-scale contextual information with several dilated receptive fields from the extracted features. Channel-based attention mechanism is provided through squeeze and excitation networks which provides improved channel dependency and access to global contextual information. The proposed MCFFA-Net achieves a classification accuracy of 90.86% and outperforms several previous architectures.
DOI:10.1109/ICCIT57492.2022.10055790