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ArticleFrontiers in plant science2025

ViTKAB: an efficient deep learning network for cotton leaf disease identification.

Laixiang Xu, Hongyun Song, Xiaodong Yang, Peng Xu, Zhaopeng Cai

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Laixiang XuSchool of Computer and Data Science, Henan University of Urban Construction, Pingdingshan, China.
Hongyun SongSchool of Computer and Data Science, Henan University of Urban Construction, Pingdingshan, China.
Xiaodong YangInstitute of Food Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China.
Peng XuCollege of Engineering, Key Laboratory of Modern Agricultural Equipment of Jiangxi Province, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China.
Zhaopeng CaiSchool of Computer and Data Science, Henan University of Urban Construction, Pingdingshan, China.

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Abstract

Introduction: Cotton is a vital global economic crop and textile material, yet its yield and quality are threatened by leaf diseases such as brown spot, verticillium wilt, wheel spot, and fusarium wilt. Methods: We propose ViTKAB, a cotton disease recognition model based on an enhanced Vision Transformer that integrates a Kolmogorov-Arnold network and a BiFormer module. The model optimizes the Vision Transformer architecture to improve inference speed, employs nonlinear feature representation to better capture complex disease characteristics, and incorporates sparse dynamic attention to enhance robustness and accuracy. Results: Experiments show that ViTKAB achieves an average recognition accuracy of 98.05% across four cotton leaf diseases, outperforming models such as CoAtNet-7, CLIP, and PaLI. Conclusions: This method offers valuable insights for advancing intelligent crop disease detection systems and exhibits strong potential for deployment on edge devices.

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BiFormercotton leafcrop diseasesdeep learningvision transformer

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