EF-CenterNet: An efficient anchor-free model for UAV-based banana leaf disease detection

Huy-Tan Thai, Kim-Hung Le, Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen

Abstract: Highlights•An Efficient Feature CenterNet model for high-accuracy leaf disease detection.•EfficientViT and Feature Pyramid Network enable robust feature extraction and fusion.•Achieves competitive mAP with significantly fewer parameters and GFLOPs.•A novel UAV dataset for banana black Sigatoka diseases.