Identification Method of Corn Leaf Disease Based on Improved Mobilenetv3 Model

Corn is one of the main food crops in China, and its area ranks in the top three in the world. However, the corn leaf disease has seriously affected the yield and quality of corn. To quickly and accurately identify corn leaf diseases, taking timely and effective treatment to reduce the loss of corn yield. We proposed identifying corn leaf diseases using the Mobilenetv3 (CD-Mobilenetv3) model. Based on the Mobilenetv3 model, we replaced the model’s cross-entropy loss function with a bias loss function to improve accuracy. Replaced the model’s squeeze and excitation (SE) module with the efficient channel attention (ECA) module to reduce parameters. Introduced the cross-layer connections between Mobile modules to utilize features synthetically. Then we Introduced the dilated convolutions in the model to increase the receptive field. We integrated a hybrid open-source corn leaf disease dataset (CLDD). The test results on CLDD showed the accuracy reached 98. 23%, the precision reached 98. 26%, the recall reached 98. 26%, and the F1 score reached 98. 26%. The test results are improved compared to the classic deep learning (DL) models ResNet50, ResNet101, ShuffleNetₓ2, VGG16, SqueezeNet, InceptionNetv3, etc. The loss value was 0. 0285, and the parameters were lower than most contrasting models. The experimental results verified the validity of the CD-Mobilenetv3 model in the identification of corn leaf diseases. It provides adequate technical support for the timely control of corn leaf diseases.