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Aug 2026
Cotton Leaf Disease Detection via Dual-Backbone CNN-Transformer Fusion with Quantitative XAI Comparison
This study demonstrates that simple feature concatenation between dual backbones (CNN + Transformer) is highly effective for cotton leaf disease detection and provides a benchmark for XAI method selection in plant pathology.
Naeem Ullah, I. De Falco, G. Sannino
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