SLIF-Tomato: Inverted Residual Convolutional Block Attention Module for In-field Tomato Leaf Disease Recognition

Abstract

Abstract Tomato cultivation represents a critical component of nutrition, economic development, and public health, yet it is increasingly compromised by foliar diseases that diminish yield and intensify dependency on hazardous agrochemicals. Although deep learning models have demonstrated strong capabilities for automated disease recognition, existing benchmark datasets exhibit limited real-world utility, primarily due to the absence of in-field imagery and precise annotations of diseased regions. A novel attention mechanism, I nverted R esidual C onvolutional B lock A ttention M odule ( IR-CBAM ), is proposed, combining inverted residual blocks with the CBAM Module, and is specifically tailored to address challenges posed by in-field image variability, such as complex backgrounds and inconsistent lighting. Furthermore, this study introduces SLIF-Tomato , the S ri L ankan I n- F ield Tomato leaf disease dataset, which is the first complete in-field dataset comprising class labels and bounding box annotations collected under diverse real-world conditions. The proposed approach achieved 99.66% and 99.91% accuracy rates on two curated versions of the SLIF-Tomato dataset. Subsequently, the YOLOv12-large model is employed to detect diseased regions, which obtained an average precision score of 88.5%. These contributions advance the development of accurate, efficient and field-adaptable diagnostic systems for tomato leaf disease management in precision agriculture.

Plant phenotyping relevance

トマト葉の病害領域を画像から検出・認識する手法を開発し、実圃場データセットも構築・評価しており、植物病害状態の表現型取得が中心的です。

Code and data availability

The paper introduces the SLIF-Tomato in-field tomato leaf disease dataset (class labels and bounding box annotations), which is a paper-specific public asset. However, its stated accessibility is via a Kaggle DOI (10.34740/kaggle/ds/8911633), which is not among the allowed URLs, so no actionable asset can be reported.

No evidence-backed public reproduction asset is currently recorded.