ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Plant Sci.
Sec. Plant Bioinformatics
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1702071
MobileNet-GDR: A Lightweight Algorithm for Grape Leaf Disease Identification Based on Improved MobileNetV4-small
Provisionally accepted- Changchun University of Science and Technology College of Optical and Electronic Information, Changchun, China
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To address the challenges of high computational complexity and difficult deployment of existing deep learning models on mobile devices for grape leaf disease diagnosis, this paper proposes a lightweight image classification algorithm named MobileNet-GDR (Grape Disease Recognition), built upon the MobileNetV4-small architecture. The algorithm constructs an efficient feature extraction module based on depthwise separable convolutions and grouped convolutions to optimize the feature fusion process, while incorporating PReLU activation functions to enhance nonlinear representation capability. Experimental results on a grape leaf disease dataset demonstrate that MobileNet-GDR achieves high accuracy while significantly reducing computational overhead: with only 1.75M parameters and 0.18G FLOPs, it attains real-time inference speed of 184.89 FPS and a classification accuracy of 99.625%. Ablation studies validate the effectiveness of each module, and comparative experiments show that its computational efficiency surpasses mainstream lightweight models such as FasterNet and GhostNet. MobileNet-GDR provides a practical lightweight solution for real-time disease diagnosis in field conditions, demonstrating significant value for agricultural applications.
Keywords: grape leaf disease, image classification, deep learning, MobileNetV4, precision agriculture
Received: 09 Sep 2025; Accepted: 20 Oct 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Chen, Xia, Ma, Jiang and He. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Zhuang He, zhuanghe20250808@163.com
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