GLNet: global-local feature network for wheat leaf disease image classification

Abstract

Addressing the issues with insufficient multi-scale feature perception and incomplete understanding of global information in traditional convolutional neural networks for image classification of wheat leaf disease, this paper proposes a global local feature network, i.e. GLNet, which adopts a unique global-local convolutional neural network architecture, realizes the comprehensive capturing of multi-scale features in an image by processing the global feature block and local feature block in parallel and integrating the information of both of them with the help of a feature fusion block. By processing global and local feature blocks in parallel and integrating the information of both effectively with the help of feature fusion blocks, the model realizes the comprehensive capture of multi-scale features in images. This innovative design significantly enhances the model ability to understand the features of wheat leaf disease images, and thus demonstrates excellent performance and accuracy in the task of classifying wheat leaf disease images in real-world scenarios. The successful application of GLNet provides new ideas and effective tools for solving complex image classification problems.