TomatoGuard-YOLO: a novel efficient tomato disease detection method

Tomatoes are highly susceptible to numerous diseases that significantly reduce their yield and quality, posing critical challenges to global food security and sustainable agricultural practices. To address the shortcomings of existing detection methods in accuracy, computational efficiency, and scal...

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Main Authors: Xuewei Wang, Jun Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2025-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2024.1499278/full
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description Tomatoes are highly susceptible to numerous diseases that significantly reduce their yield and quality, posing critical challenges to global food security and sustainable agricultural practices. To address the shortcomings of existing detection methods in accuracy, computational efficiency, and scalability, this study propose TomatoGuard-YOLO, an advanced, lightweight, and highly efficient detection framework based on an improved YOLOv10 architecture. The framework introduces two key innovations: the Multi-Path Inverted Residual Unit (MPIRU), which enhances multi-scale feature extraction and fusion, and the Dynamic Focusing Attention Framework (DFAF), which adaptively focuses on disease-relevant regions, substantially improving detection robustness. Additionally, the incorporation of the Focal-EIoU loss function refines bounding box matching accuracy and mitigates class imbalance. Experimental evaluations on a dedicated tomato disease detection dataset demonstrate that TomatoGuard-YOLO achieves an outstanding mAP50 of 94.23%, an inference speed of 129.64 FPS, and an ultra-compact model size of just 2.65 MB. These results establish TomatoGuard-YOLO as a transformative solution for intelligent plant disease management systems, offering unprecedented advancements in detection accuracy, speed, and model efficiency.
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spelling doaj-art-92e794f32fe04522bd5e656767372d1b2025-01-31T06:40:04ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Plant Science1664-462X2025-01-011510.3389/fpls.2024.14992781499278TomatoGuard-YOLO: a novel efficient tomato disease detection methodXuewei WangJun LiuTomatoes are highly susceptible to numerous diseases that significantly reduce their yield and quality, posing critical challenges to global food security and sustainable agricultural practices. To address the shortcomings of existing detection methods in accuracy, computational efficiency, and scalability, this study propose TomatoGuard-YOLO, an advanced, lightweight, and highly efficient detection framework based on an improved YOLOv10 architecture. The framework introduces two key innovations: the Multi-Path Inverted Residual Unit (MPIRU), which enhances multi-scale feature extraction and fusion, and the Dynamic Focusing Attention Framework (DFAF), which adaptively focuses on disease-relevant regions, substantially improving detection robustness. Additionally, the incorporation of the Focal-EIoU loss function refines bounding box matching accuracy and mitigates class imbalance. Experimental evaluations on a dedicated tomato disease detection dataset demonstrate that TomatoGuard-YOLO achieves an outstanding mAP50 of 94.23%, an inference speed of 129.64 FPS, and an ultra-compact model size of just 2.65 MB. These results establish TomatoGuard-YOLO as a transformative solution for intelligent plant disease management systems, offering unprecedented advancements in detection accuracy, speed, and model efficiency.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2024.1499278/fulltomato disease detectionYOLOv10multi-path inverted residual unitdynamic focusing attention frameworkfocal-EIoU loss function
spellingShingle Xuewei Wang
Jun Liu
TomatoGuard-YOLO: a novel efficient tomato disease detection method
Frontiers in Plant Science
tomato disease detection
YOLOv10
multi-path inverted residual unit
dynamic focusing attention framework
focal-EIoU loss function
title TomatoGuard-YOLO: a novel efficient tomato disease detection method
title_full TomatoGuard-YOLO: a novel efficient tomato disease detection method
title_fullStr TomatoGuard-YOLO: a novel efficient tomato disease detection method
title_full_unstemmed TomatoGuard-YOLO: a novel efficient tomato disease detection method
title_short TomatoGuard-YOLO: a novel efficient tomato disease detection method
title_sort tomatoguard yolo a novel efficient tomato disease detection method
topic tomato disease detection
YOLOv10
multi-path inverted residual unit
dynamic focusing attention framework
focal-EIoU loss function
url https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2024.1499278/full
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