Wang Wenyu, Ding Jie, Shu Xin, Xu Wenwen, Wu Yunzhi
Anhui Beidou Precision Agriculture Information Engineering Research Center, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, China.
School of Information and Artificial Intelligence, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, China.
Sensors (Basel). 2025 Mar 12;25(6):1751. doi: 10.3390/s25061751.
The accurate pest control of pear tree diseases is an urgent need for the realization of smart agriculture, with one of the key challenges being the precise segmentation of pear leaf diseases. However, existing methods show poor segmentation performance due to issues such as the small size of certain pear leaf disease areas, blurred edge details, and background noise interference. To address these problems, this paper proposes an improved U-Net architecture, FFAE-UNet, for the segmentation of pear leaf diseases. Specifically, two innovative modules are introduced in FFAE-UNet: the Attention Guidance Module (AGM) and the Feature Enhancement Supplementation Module (FESM). The AGM module effectively suppresses background noise interference by reconstructing features and accurately capturing spatial and channel relationships, while the FESM module enhances the model's responsiveness to disease features at different scales through channel aggregation and feature supplementation mechanisms. Experimental results show that FFAE-UNet achieves 86.60%, 92.58%, and 91.85% in MIoU, Dice coefficient, and MPA evaluation metrics, respectively, significantly outperforming current mainstream methods. FFAE-UNet can assist farmers and agricultural experts in more effectively evaluating and managing diseases, thereby enabling precise disease control and management.
梨树病害的精准防治是实现智慧农业的迫切需求,其中关键挑战之一是梨树叶部病害的精确分割。然而,由于某些梨树叶部病害区域面积小、边缘细节模糊以及背景噪声干扰等问题,现有方法的分割性能较差。为解决这些问题,本文提出一种改进的U-Net架构FFAE-UNet,用于梨树叶部病害的分割。具体而言,FFAE-UNet中引入了两个创新模块:注意力引导模块(AGM)和特征增强补充模块(FESM)。AGM模块通过特征重构有效抑制背景噪声干扰,并准确捕捉空间和通道关系,而FESM模块通过通道聚合和特征补充机制增强模型对不同尺度病害特征的响应能力。实验结果表明,FFAE-UNet在MIoU、Dice系数和MPA评估指标上分别达到了86.60%、92.58%和91.85%,显著优于当前主流方法。FFAE-UNet可以帮助农民和农业专家更有效地评估和管理病害,从而实现精准的病害防治和管理。