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YOLO-SPDNet: Multi-Scale Sequence and Attention-Based Tomato Leaf Disease Detection Model

Meng Wang¹, Jinghan Cai¹, Wenzheng Liu¹, Xue Yang¹, Jingjing Zhang¹, Qiangmin Zhou¹, Fanzhen Wang¹, Hang Zhang^1,*, Tonghai Liu^2,*

1 College of Computer and Information Engineering, Tianjin Agricultural University, Tianjin, 300392, China
2 College of Engineering and Technology, Tianjin Agricultural University, Tianjin, 300392, China

* Corresponding Authors: Hang Zhang. Email: ; Tonghai Liu. Email:

(This article belongs to the Special Issue: Plant Protection and Pest Management)

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany 2026, 95(1), 17 https://doi.org/10.32604/phyton.2025.075541

Received 03 November 2025; Accepted 18 December 2025; Issue published 30 January 2026

Abstract

Tomato is a major economic crop worldwide, and diseases on tomato leaves can significantly reduce both yield and quality. Traditional manual inspection is inefficient and highly subjective, making it difficult to meet the requirements of early disease identification in complex natural environments. To address this issue, this study proposes an improved YOLO11-based model, YOLO-SPDNet (Scale Sequence Fusion, Position-Channel Attention, and Dual Enhancement Network). The model integrates the SEAM (Self-Ensembling Attention Mechanism) semantic enhancement module, the MLCA (Mixed Local Channel Attention) lightweight attention mechanism, and the SPA (Scale-Position-Detail Awareness) module composed of SSFF (Scale Sequence Feature Fusion), TFE (Triple Feature Encoding), and CPAM (Channel and Position Attention Mechanism). These enhancements strengthen fine-grained lesion detection while maintaining model lightweightness. Experimental results show that YOLO-SPDNet achieves an accuracy of 91.8%, a recall of 86.5%, and an mAP@0.5 of 90.6% on the test set, with a computational complexity of 12.5 GFLOPs. Furthermore, the model reaches a real-time inference speed of 987 FPS, making it suitable for deployment on mobile agricultural terminals and online monitoring systems. Comparative analysis and ablation studies further validate the reliability and practical applicability of the proposed model in complex natural scenes.

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