Vokasi UNESA Bulletin of Engineering, Technology and Applied Science
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2026): (In Progress)

Zero-Shot Super-Resolution as a Test-Time Enhancer for Cross-Crop Plant Disease Recognition

Malam, Sani Saminu Saleh (Unknown)
Ibrahim, Yusuf (Unknown)
Haruna, Zaharuddeen (Unknown)
Yusuf, Shehu Mohammed (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
05 May 2026

Abstract

Accurate plant disease diagnosis is central to precision agriculture, yet real-world performance degrades under blur, low resolution, and domain shift, weakening zero-shot recognition of unseen diseases. This paper investigates the integration of Coordinate Attention (CA) and Zero-Shot Super-Resolution (ZSSR) as test-time plug-ins to a standard Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) pipeline without using any target labels. Using Plant Village tomato to potato transfer, each target image is super-resolved via a compact, self-supervised SR CNN (50 inner steps with self-ensemble and back-projection) and then standardized to 224×224×3 before feature extraction with MobileNetV2 (global average pooling). A lightweight CA module enhances spatial channel attention, focusing on lesion regions. The visual embeddings (1280-D) are projected into a 300-dimensional, L2-normalized semantic space through a dense, BN, ReLU to dropout head, and class logits are computed as cosine similarity to Word2Vec prototypes. On the target (potato) test set, the proposed ZSL + CA + ZSSR model achieved 86.33% accuracy, outperforming both ZSL + ZSSR (79.04%) and the ZSTL benchmark (78.34%, VGG16 + Triplet + DAC-300). Confusion matrices show fewer PEB↔PLB and PH to diseased confusions, while training curves exhibit faster, more stable convergence when ZSSR and CA are jointly applied. These results indicate that per-image, test-time ZSSR with CA attention sharpens lesion cues and enhances cross-crop transfer, providing a lightweight, label-free pathway to improved field robustness and diagnostics.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

vubeta

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Engineering Mechanical Engineering Transportation

Description

Vokasi Unesa Bulletin Of Engineering, Technology and Applied Science is a peer-reviewed, Quarterly International Journal, that publishes high-quality theoretical and experimental papers of permanent interest, that have not previously been published in a journal, in the field of engineering, ...