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View SchemaLWMSCNN-SE: A Lightweight Multi-Scale Network for Efficient Maize Disease Classification on Edge Devices
| Authors | Fikadu Weloday, Jianmei Su |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | 2601.07957vv1 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07957 |
| License | http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ |
Abstract
Maize disease classification plays a vital role in mitigating yield losses and ensuring food security. However, the deployment of traditional disease detection models in resource-constrained environments, such as those using smartphones and drones, faces challenges due to high computational costs. To address these challenges, we propose LWMSCNN-SE, a lightweight convolutional neural network (CNN) that integrates multi-scale feature extraction, depthwise separable convolutions, and squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) attention mechanisms. This novel combination enables the model to achieve 96.63% classification accuracy with only 241,348 parameters and 0.666 GFLOPs, making it suitable for real-time deployment in field applications. Our approach addresses the accuracy--efficiency trade-off by delivering high accuracy while maintaining low computational costs, demonstrating its potential for efficient maize disease diagnosis on edge devices in precision farming systems.
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