MOIR-Net: A Lightweight Crop Disease and Pest Recognition Network Based onMulti-Scale Reparameterization and Energy Attention

Accurate crop pest recognition is critical for intelligent agriculture, yet it remains constrained by the inherent trade-off between complex field variability and the stringent resource limitations of edge devices. In this study, MOIR-Net, a lightweight framework, is proposed to address this bottleneck by integrating Multi-scale Omnikernel Inverted Residuals (MOIR) with Parameter-free SimAM Attention. The MOIR module employs a structural re-parameterization strategy that transforms multi-branch training topologies into single-path inference architectures, thereby enabling lossless feature aggregation with zero inference-time memory overhead. Extensive evaluations conducted on the IP102, PlantVillage, and PlantDoc datasets demonstrate thatMOIR-Net achieves a strong accuracy–efficiency balance while maintaining minimal computational cost (0.967 M parameters, 2.30 ms latency). On the challenging IP102 benchmark, a Top-1 accuracy of 64.18% and mAP of 58.32% are achieved, significantly surpassing state-of-the-art baselines such as MobileViT-v2. Furthermore, the model exhibits superior cross-domain generalization (41.9% Macro-F1 gain) and highly competitive prediction reliability (ECE = 0.0220) through label smoothing. MOIR-Net successfully reconciles extreme computational efficiency with high trustworthiness, thereby offering a robust solution for real-time crop monitoring on resource-constrained agricultural edge platforms.

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Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies
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2026-09-01
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https://doi.org/10.53941/aiet.2026.100009
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Smart Agriculture and AI
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Accurate crop pest recognition is critical for intelligent agriculture, yet it remains constrained by the inherent trade-off between complex field variability and the stringent resource limitations of edge devices. In this study, MOIR-Net, a lightweight framework, is proposed to address this bottleneck by integrating Multi-scale Omnikernel Inverted Residuals (MOIR) with Parameter-free SimAM Attention. The MOIR module employs a structural re-parameterization strategy that transforms multi-branch training topologies into single-path inference architectures, thereby enabling lossless feature aggregation with zero inference-time memory overhead. Extensive evaluations conducted on the IP102, PlantVillage, and PlantDoc datasets demonstrate thatMOIR-Net achieves a strong accuracy–efficiency balance while maintaining minimal computational cost (0.967 M parameters, 2.30 ms latency). On the challenging IP102 benchmark, a Top-1 accuracy of 64.18% and mAP of 58.32% are achieved, significantly surpassing state-of-the-art baselines such as MobileViT-v2. Furthermore, the model exhibits superior cross-domain generalization (41.9% Macro-F1 gain) and highly competitive prediction reliability (ECE = 0.0220) through label smoothing. MOIR-Net successfully reconciles extreme computational efficiency with high trustworthiness, thereby offering a robust solution for real-time crop monitoring on resource-constrained agricultural edge platforms.

Artificial Intelligence and Emerging TechnologiesVol. 3(3)
Chongqing University of Science and Technology (CN), Chongqing University of Technology (CN)
Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing, Chongqing Municipal Education Commission
Zero hunger
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