Harnessing synthetic data for enhanced detection of Pine Wilt Disease: An image classification approach

Yonghoon Jung, Sanghyun Byun, Bumsoo Kim, Sareer Ul Amin, Sanghyun Seo

Abstract: Highlights•Pine Wilt Disease requires early detection due to its severity and lack of cure.•Our synthetic dataset creation outperforms traditional PWD data collection process.•Real and synthetic data combination improves PWD F1 Score to 92.88%.•Synthetic data method aids forest preservation, applies to other agriculture.