GrapeNet: A Lightweight Convolutional Neural Network Model for Identification of Grape Leaf Diseases

Jianwu Lin, Xiaoyulong Chen, Renyong Pan, Tengbao Cao, Jitong Cai, Yang Chen, Xishun Peng, Tomislav Cernava and Xin Zhang
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Jianwu Lin: College of Big Data and Information Engineering, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
Xiaoyulong Chen: College of Tobacco Science, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
Renyong Pan: College of Big Data and Information Engineering, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
Tengbao Cao: College of Big Data and Information Engineering, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
Jitong Cai: College of Big Data and Information Engineering, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
Yang Chen: College of Big Data and Information Engineering, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
Xishun Peng: College of Big Data and Information Engineering, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
Tomislav Cernava: Institute of Environmental Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, 8010 Graz, Austria
Xin Zhang: College of Big Data and Information Engineering, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China

Agriculture, 2022, vol. 12, issue 6, 1-17

Abstract: Most convolutional neural network (CNN) models have various difficulties in identifying crop diseases owing to morphological and physiological changes in crop tissues, and cells. Furthermore, a single crop disease can show different symptoms. Usually, the differences in symptoms between early crop disease and late crop disease stages include the area of disease and color of disease. This also poses additional difficulties for CNN models. Here, we propose a lightweight CNN model called GrapeNet for the identification of different symptom stages for specific grape diseases. The main components of GrapeNet are residual blocks, residual feature fusion blocks (RFFBs), and convolution block attention modules. The residual blocks are used to deepen the network depth and extract rich features. To alleviate the CNN performance degradation associated with a large number of hidden layers, we designed an RFFB module based on the residual block. It fuses the average pooled feature map before the residual block input and the high-dimensional feature maps after the residual block output by a concatenation operation, thereby achieving feature fusion at different depths. In addition, the convolutional block attention module (CBAM) is introduced after each RFFB module to extract valid disease information. The obtained results show that the identification accuracy was determined as 82.99%, 84.01%, 82.74%, 84.77%, 80.96%, 82.74%, 80.96%, 83.76%, and 86.29% for GoogLeNet, Vgg16, ResNet34, DenseNet121, MobileNetV2, MobileNetV3_large, ShuffleNetV2_×1.0, EfficientNetV2_s, and GrapeNet. The GrapeNet model achieved the best classification performance when compared with other classical models. The total number of parameters of the GrapeNet model only included 2.15 million. Compared with DenseNet121, which has the highest accuracy among classical network models, the number of parameters of GrapeNet was reduced by 4.81 million, thereby reducing the training time of GrapeNet by about two times compared with that of DenseNet121. Moreover, the visualization results of Grad-cam indicate that the introduction of CBAM can emphasize disease information and suppress irrelevant information. The overall results suggest that the GrapeNet model is useful for the automatic identification of grape leaf diseases.

Keywords: convolutional neural network; residual block; attention mechanism; grape leaf disease (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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