Pixel-Precise Explainable Stress Indexing: A Semantic Segmentation Framework for Disease Severity Quantification in Field Crops

arXiv:2607.06585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Plant diseases, resulting from both biotic and abiotic stresses, cause an estimated 20-40% loss in global agricultural yield annually, resulting in economic damages exceeding USD 220 billion. Accurate and scalable stress quantification is essential for precision agriculture, yet traditional manual assessments are labour-intensive and subjective. This paper proposes a unified deep learning pipeline integrating semantic segmentation, regression-based...