Detection of Wheat Yellow Rust Disease Severity Based on Improved GhostNetV2

Wheat production safety is facing serious challenges because wheat yellow rust is a worldwide disease. Wheat yellow rust may have no obvious external manifestations in the early stage, and it is difficult to detect whether it is infected, but in the middle and late stages of onset, the symptoms of the disease are obvious, though the severity is difficult to distinguish. A traditional deep learning network model has a large number of parameters, a large amount of calculation, a long time for model training, and high resource consumption, making it difficult to transplant to mobile and edge terminals. To address the above issues, this study proposes an optimized GhostNetV2 approach. First, to increase communication between groups, a channel rearrangement operation is performed on the output of the Ghost module. Then, the first five G-bneck layers of the source model GhostNetV2 are replaced with Fused-MBConv to accelerate model training. Finally, to further improve the model’s identification of diseases, the source attention mechanism SE is replaced by ECA. After experimental comparison, the improved algorithm shortens the training time by 37.49%, and the accuracy rate reaches 95.44%, which is 2.24% higher than the GhostNetV2 algorithm. The detection accuracy and speed have major improvements compared with other lightweight model algorithms.