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Enhanced Smart Crop Health Assessment using Interactive Masked Vision Transformer with Multi Network Attention Mechanism on UAV Imager

International Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering
© 2026 by SSRG - IJECE Journal
Volume 13 Issue 3
Year of Publication : 2026
Authors : Sharmila G
10.14445/23488549/IJECE-V13I3P125
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Sharmila G, "Enhanced Smart Crop Health Assessment using Interactive Masked Vision Transformer with Multi Network Attention Mechanism on UAV Imager," SSRG International Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering, vol. 13,  no. 3, pp. 312-323, 2026. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23488549/IJECE-V13I3P125

Abstract:

Soybeans have become one of the most significant oilseed and food crops worldwide. However, soybean crops are susceptible to numerous factors. Damage due to pests, illnesses, and other factors exceeds 20 per cent of the world's manufacturing. The usage of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in crop fields was found to be a significant tool for identifying disease patches, enabling professionals and agriculturalists to make better decisions. Furthermore, in this context, deep learning (DL) has made important developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI). As a result, several studies have employed DL to solve a wide range of diverse problems. In the agricultural sector, DL has gained significant interest in improving crop productivity. This study introduces an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Soybean Crop Health Monitoring Using Advanced Deep Learning Architectures (UAVSCHM-DLA) model. The aim is to present an intelligent system that is capable of monitoring and assessing soybean crop health using integrated UAV and leaf images. Initially, Histogram Equalisation (HE) and Bilateral Filtering (BF) methods are applied to perform image pre-processing. For effective feature extraction, a vision transformer with the Interactive Mask Self-Attention (IMViT) method is employed. Finally, multiple neural networks with an attention mechanism (MNet-Attn) method are implemented for classification. The comparison of the UAVSCHM-DLA technique illustrated superior accuracies of 98.20% and 97.01% on the leaf and UAV datasets, respectively.

Keywords:

Crop Monitoring, Crop Health Assessment, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Deep Learning, Interactive Mask Self Attention, Vision Transformer.

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