A Diffusion-Based Detection Model for Accurate Soybean Disease Identification in Smart Agricultural Environments.

Abstract

Accurate detection of soybean diseases is a critical component in achieving intelligent agricultural management. However, traditional methods often underperform in complex field scenarios. This paper proposes a diffusion-based object detection model that integrates the endogenous diffusion sub-network and the endogenous diffusion loss function to progressively optimize feature distributions, significantly enhancing detection performance for complex backgrounds and diverse disease regions. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms multiple baseline models, achieving a precision of 94%, recall of 90%, accuracy of 92%, and mAP@50 and mAP@75 of 92% and 91%, respectively, surpassing RetinaNet, DETR, YOLOv10, and DETR v2. In fine-grained disease detection, the model performs best on rust detection, with a precision of 96% and a recall of 93%. For more complex diseases such as bacterial blight and Fusarium head blight, precision and mAP exceed 90%. Compared to self-attention and CBAM, the proposed endogenous diffusion attention mechanism further improves feature extraction accuracy and robustness. This method demonstrates significant advantages in both theoretical innovation and practical application, providing critical technological support for intelligent soybean disease detection.

Plant phenotyping relevance

大豆病害を対象に、画像ベースの病徴・病害状態推定モデルを開発し、複数モデルとの性能比較で検証しているため、植物フェノタイピング手法が中心である。

Code and data availability

The supplied blocks describe a soybean disease image dataset collected by the authors (Bayan Nur Forestry Center field images plus online images) and a diffusion-based detection model, but contain no public dataset deposit, no author code/model release, and no data or code availability statement with a URL. The dataset

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