C2PSA-Enhanced YOLOv11 Architecture: A Novel Approach for Small Target Detection in Cotton Disease Diagnosis
By: Kaiyuan Wang, Jixing Liu, Xiaobo Cai
Potential Business Impact:
Finds tiny plant sicknesses early, even in fields.
This study presents a deep learning-based optimization of YOLOv11 for cotton disease detection, developing an intelligent monitoring system. Three key challenges are addressed: (1) low precision in early spot detection (35% leakage rate for sub-5mm2 spots), (2) performance degradation in field conditions (25% accuracy drop), and (3) high error rates (34.7%) in multi-disease scenarios. The proposed solutions include: C2PSA module for enhanced small-target feature extraction; Dynamic category weighting to handle sample imbalance; Improved data augmentation via Mosaic-MixUp scaling. Experimental results on a 4,078-image dataset show: mAP50: 0.820 (+8.0% improvement); mAP50-95: 0.705 (+10.5% improvement); Inference speed: 158 FPS. The mobile-deployed system enables real-time disease monitoring and precision treatment in agricultural applications.
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