FA-Net: A Fused Feature for Multi-Head Attention Recoding Network for Pear Leaf Nutritional Deficiency Diagnosis with Visual RGB-Image Depth and Shallow Features

Accurate diagnosis of pear tree nutrient deficiency symptoms is vital for the timely adoption of fertilization and treatment. This study proposes a novel method on the fused feature multi-head attention recording network with image depth and shallow feature fusion for diagnosing nutrient deficiency...

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Main Authors: Yi Song, Li Liu, Yuan Rao, Xiaodan Zhang, Xiu Jin
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-05-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/9/4507
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author Yi Song
Li Liu
Yuan Rao
Xiaodan Zhang
Xiu Jin
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Li Liu
Yuan Rao
Xiaodan Zhang
Xiu Jin
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description Accurate diagnosis of pear tree nutrient deficiency symptoms is vital for the timely adoption of fertilization and treatment. This study proposes a novel method on the fused feature multi-head attention recording network with image depth and shallow feature fusion for diagnosing nutrient deficiency symptoms in pear leaves. First, the shallow features of nutrient-deficient pear leaf images are extracted using manual feature extraction methods, and the depth features are extracted by the deep network model. Second, the shallow features are fused with the depth features using serial fusion. In addition, the fused features are trained using three classification algorithms, F-Net, FC-Net, and FA-Net, proposed in this paper. Finally, we compare the performance of single feature-based and fusion feature-based identification algorithms in the nutrient-deficient pear leaf diagnostic task. The best classification performance is achieved by fusing the depth features output from the ConvNeXt-Base deep network model with shallow features using the proposed FA-Net network, which improved the average accuracy by 15.34 and 10.19 percentage points, respectively, compared with the original ConvNeXt-Base model and the shallow feature-based recognition model. The result can accurately recognize pear leaf deficiency images by providing a theoretical foundation for identifying plant nutrient-deficient leaves.
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spelling doaj.art-11b636ea25ae44198abe385effd38b3e2023-11-17T23:45:23ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202023-05-01239450710.3390/s23094507FA-Net: A Fused Feature for Multi-Head Attention Recoding Network for Pear Leaf Nutritional Deficiency Diagnosis with Visual RGB-Image Depth and Shallow FeaturesYi Song0Li Liu1Yuan Rao2Xiaodan Zhang3Xiu Jin4College of Information and Computer Science, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230001, ChinaCollege of Horticulture, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230001, ChinaCollege of Information and Computer Science, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230001, ChinaCollege of Information and Computer Science, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230001, ChinaCollege of Information and Computer Science, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230001, ChinaAccurate diagnosis of pear tree nutrient deficiency symptoms is vital for the timely adoption of fertilization and treatment. This study proposes a novel method on the fused feature multi-head attention recording network with image depth and shallow feature fusion for diagnosing nutrient deficiency symptoms in pear leaves. First, the shallow features of nutrient-deficient pear leaf images are extracted using manual feature extraction methods, and the depth features are extracted by the deep network model. Second, the shallow features are fused with the depth features using serial fusion. In addition, the fused features are trained using three classification algorithms, F-Net, FC-Net, and FA-Net, proposed in this paper. Finally, we compare the performance of single feature-based and fusion feature-based identification algorithms in the nutrient-deficient pear leaf diagnostic task. The best classification performance is achieved by fusing the depth features output from the ConvNeXt-Base deep network model with shallow features using the proposed FA-Net network, which improved the average accuracy by 15.34 and 10.19 percentage points, respectively, compared with the original ConvNeXt-Base model and the shallow feature-based recognition model. The result can accurately recognize pear leaf deficiency images by providing a theoretical foundation for identifying plant nutrient-deficient leaves.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/9/4507nutrient deficienciesdeep learningfeature fusionconvolutional neural networksattention mechanism
spellingShingle Yi Song
Li Liu
Yuan Rao
Xiaodan Zhang
Xiu Jin
FA-Net: A Fused Feature for Multi-Head Attention Recoding Network for Pear Leaf Nutritional Deficiency Diagnosis with Visual RGB-Image Depth and Shallow Features
Sensors
nutrient deficiencies
deep learning
feature fusion
convolutional neural networks
attention mechanism
title FA-Net: A Fused Feature for Multi-Head Attention Recoding Network for Pear Leaf Nutritional Deficiency Diagnosis with Visual RGB-Image Depth and Shallow Features
title_full FA-Net: A Fused Feature for Multi-Head Attention Recoding Network for Pear Leaf Nutritional Deficiency Diagnosis with Visual RGB-Image Depth and Shallow Features
title_fullStr FA-Net: A Fused Feature for Multi-Head Attention Recoding Network for Pear Leaf Nutritional Deficiency Diagnosis with Visual RGB-Image Depth and Shallow Features
title_full_unstemmed FA-Net: A Fused Feature for Multi-Head Attention Recoding Network for Pear Leaf Nutritional Deficiency Diagnosis with Visual RGB-Image Depth and Shallow Features
title_short FA-Net: A Fused Feature for Multi-Head Attention Recoding Network for Pear Leaf Nutritional Deficiency Diagnosis with Visual RGB-Image Depth and Shallow Features
title_sort fa net a fused feature for multi head attention recoding network for pear leaf nutritional deficiency diagnosis with visual rgb image depth and shallow features
topic nutrient deficiencies
deep learning
feature fusion
convolutional neural networks
attention mechanism
url https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/9/4507
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