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A comparative study of vision transformers and convolutional neural networks: sugarcane leaf diseases identification

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Diseases in agricultural products cause significant decrease on harvest efficiency and economic values of the products, early detection of diseases can prevent this loss. The development of artificial intelligence has brought its use in the field of agriculture. These practices have facilitated the work of farmers and increased productivity. Sugarcane is one of the agricultural crops with high economic value, and in this study, diseases in sugarcane leaves were classified by using deep learning methods. The dataset we use contains a total of 2521 images and there are 5 classes; healthy, mosaic disease, redrot disease, rust disease and yellow leaf disease. DenseNet121, one of the convolutional neural network (CNN) models, is applied to this dataset first, followed by the Vision Transformers (ViT) model, and finally the ViT + CNN combination is applied, and the results are compared. As a result of the observations, it is understood that the precisions of 92.87%, 93.34%, and 87.37%, respectively, were obtained.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Amasya University, Amasya, Turkey

    Süleyman Öğrekçi, Yavuz Ünal & Muhammet Nuri Dudak

  2. Department of Computer Engineering, Amasya University, Amasya, Turkey

    Süleyman Öğrekçi, Yavuz Ünal & Muhammet Nuri Dudak

  3. Department of Computer Engineering, Harran University, Şanlıurfa, Turkey

    Süleyman Öğrekçi, Yavuz Ünal & Muhammet Nuri Dudak

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Öğrekçi, S., Ünal, Y. & Dudak, M.N. A comparative study of vision transformers and convolutional neural networks: sugarcane leaf diseases identification. Eur Food Res Technol 249, 1833–1843 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00217-023-04258-1

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