Ibrahim, Yusuf and O. Momoh, Muyideen and O. Shobowale, Kafayat and Mukhtar Abubakar, Zainab and Yahaya, Basira (2025) EDANet: A Novel Architecture Combining Depthwise Separable Convolutions and Hybrid Attention for Efficient Tomato Disease Recognition. Journal of Computing Theories and Applications, 3 (2). pp. 160-170. ISSN 3024-9104
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Abstract
Tomato crop yields face significant threats from plant diseases, with existing deep learning solutions often computationally prohibitive for resource-constrained agricultural settings; to address this gap, we propose Efficient Disease Attention Network (EDANet), a novel lightweight architecture combining depthwise separable convolutions with hybrid attention mechanisms for efficient Tomato disease recognition. Our approach integrates channel and spatial attention within hierarchical blocks to prioritize symptomatic regions while utilizing depthwise decomposition to reduce parameters to only 104,043 (multiple times smaller than MobileNet and EfficientNet). Evaluated on ten tomato disease classes from PlantVillage, EDANet achieves 97.32% accuracy and exceptional (~1.00) micro-AUC, with perfect recognition of Mosaic virus (100% F1-score) and robust performance on challenging cases like Early blight (93.2% F1) and Target Spot (93.6% F1). The architecture processes 128×128 RGB images in ~23ms on standard CPUs, enabling real-time field diagnostics without GPU dependencies. This work bridges laboratory AI and practical farm deployment by optimizing the accuracy-efficiency tradeoff, providing farmers with an accessible tool for early disease intervention in resource-limited environments.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| Depositing User: | dl fts |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Oct 2025 00:58 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Oct 2025 00:58 |
| URI: | https://dl.futuretechsci.org/id/eprint/135 |
