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Cotton is one of the most important
commercial crops in India and many other countries,
contributing significantly to the textile industry and
agricultural economy. However, cotton production is
severely affected by leaf diseases and pest infestations,
leading to reduced yield and financial losses for farmers.
Traditional disease detection methods rely heavily on
expert knowledge and manual inspection, which are
time-consuming, subjective, and not scalable. Existing
deep learning approaches largely depend on supervised
learning techniques that require extensive labeled
datasets, which are expensive and difficult to obtain in
real agricultural environments.
This paper presents a self-supervised learning
(SSL)–based framework for cotton plant disease and
pest detection using unlabeled leaf images. The proposed
approach learns robust visual representations from raw
cotton leaf images without manual annotation and later
fine-tunes the model using a small labeled dataset.
Feature embeddings extracted from the SSL model are
analyzed using clustering techniques to understand
disease separability. Experimental results demonstrate
improved generalization, reduced annotation
dependency, and robustness to real-field conditions
compared to conventional supervised models. The
proposed system is suitable for scalable agricultural
deployment and precision farming applications.
"CottonCare AI: Discriminative Deep Learning for Cotton Leaf Disease Detection and Remedy Recommendation.", International Journal for Research Trends and Innovation (www.ijrti.org), ISSN:2456-3315, Vol.11, Issue 3, page no.a549-a555, March-2026, Available :http://www.ijrti.org/papers/IJRTI2603071.pdf
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