Precision Cotton Disease Management: Leveraging UAV Imagery and Custom YOLO Deep Learning Framework for Enhanced Detection
Cotton sustains the textile economies of over 80 countries with an annual yield of 113 million bales, yet 30-60% of yield losses are still attributed to viral, bacterial, and fungal diseases that remain undetected until manual field scouting. To address this critical issue, the integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery with deep learning offers a scalable early-warning system; however, existing models suffer from low early-stage accuracy, poor transferability, and high computational cost. In this paper, we propose Cotton-Vision, a fully convolutional single-stage detector that synergizes three lightweight architectural innovations: Ghost Bottleneck modules for a 20% parameter r...
| Authors | 1. Anwar Iqbal*1 aiqbal. rime23smme@student. nust. edu. pk 2. Kunwar Faraz Ahmad Khan1 kunwar. faraz@smme. nust. edu. pk 3. Shahbaz Khan1 shahbaz. khan@smme. nust. edu. pk 4. Khawaja Fahad Iqbal1 fahad. iqbal@smme. nust. edu. pk 5. Sara Ali1, 2 sara. baber@smme. nust. edu. pk 6. Saqib Nazir1 saqib. nazir@smme. nust. edu. pk 7. Muhammad Azhar Javed3 muhammadazhar6231@gmail. com 1 Department of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CV |
| Published | 16 October 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 16 October 2026 |
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