An attention U-Net–enabled precision agriculture pipeline for turmeric disease detection and mapping
摘要
Attention U-Net to accurately segment turmeric leaf diseases with the help of attention gates to improve the extraction of discriminative features and inhibit undesirable background data. The turmeric leaf model is trained on a large dataset of turmeric leaves, with extensive data augmentation to enhance generalization in real-world environments. The suggested framework allows for the localization of diseased areas with high precision at the pixel level and calculates the percentage of diseased leaf area to determine the objective severity. Guidance of skip connections by attention can enhance boundary delineation of irregular lesions and increase robustness to illumination changes, leaf orientation variations, and background complexity; thus, the strategy is appropriate for precision agriculture-based disease monitoring and control. The performance is shown to be much higher, with an average Intersection over Union of 0.82, Dice Coefficient of 0.89, Pixel Accuracy of 0.96, precision of 0.90, recall of 0.89, and weighted loss of 0.24, and inference time of 55 ms per image, which is better than existing methods.