Optimization of Deep Learning Model Based on Attention-Guided PCA Dimensionality Reduction

Plant diseases have a large impact on agricultural production, leading to crop yield reduction and causing economic losses. For the development of intelligent agriculture, it is very important to identify crop diseases accurately. With the help of image recognition methods, precise prevention and control of diseases can be achieved, which significantly reduces the use of pesticides and ultimately improves crop yield and quality. Therefore, this study proposes a theoretical method that combines Attention-Guided PCA (AG-PCA) dimensionality reduction with a spatial attention mechanism. Our method is verified on the ResNet model. The AG-PCA module dynamically selects principal component features based on attention weights, which greatly preserves key disease features during dimensionality reduction. At the same time, a spatial attention mechanism is embedded in the residual blocks to enhance the representation ability of disease regions and suppress background interference. On the AppleLeaf9 dataset containing 10,211 images of 9 disease categories, the model achieved an accuracy of 93.69%, significantly outperforming the baseline methods. Experimental results indicate that it performs stably in complex backgrounds and fine-grained classification tasks, and demonstrates strong generalization ability, showing promising application potential.

• Publication year

  2025

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  Horticulturae

• Publication date

  2025-11-09

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  DOI 10.3390/horticulturae11111346
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