harinpurumandla/rice-disease-net
rice-disease-net
DINOv2-large fine-tuned to classify 15 paddy disease and stress conditions from field photographs. Trained on a deduplicated multi-source dataset of 9,376 images spanning Tamil Nadu, Bangladesh, and laboratory conditions.
Test accuracy: 92.96% · Weighted F1: 0.9288 · 15 classes · 304M parameters
Model Details
Input / Output
Input
A single RGB paddy leaf or plant photograph. The model works best on:
- Clear images of individual leaves or panicles
- Field or laboratory lighting (not heavily shadowed)
- Paddy/rice plants (Oryza sativa) only — not validated on other crops
from PIL import Image
from transformers import AutoImageProcessor
processor = AutoImageProcessor.from_pretrained("harinpurumandla/rice-disease-net")
image = Image.open("paddy_leaf.jpg").convert("RGB")
# Returns dict with "pixel_values" tensor of shape (1, 3, 224, 224)
inputs = processor(images=image, return_tensors="pt")Output
Raw logits tensor of shape (batch_size, 15). Higher logit = higher confidence for that class. Apply softmax for probabilities.
import torch, json
config = json.load(open("config.json"))
idx_to_class = config["idx_to_class"]
with torch.no_grad():
logits = model(inputs["pixel_values"]) # (1, 15)
probs = torch.softmax(logits, dim=1) # (1, 15)
pred_idx = probs.argmax(dim=1).item()
confidence = probs[0, pred_idx].item()
print(f"Predicted: {idx_to_class[str(pred_idx)]} ({confidence:.1%} confidence)")
# Example: "Predicted: blast (87.3% confidence)"Full inference example
import json, torch
from PIL import Image
from transformers import AutoImageProcessor
# --- load once at startup ---
import sys
sys.path.insert(0, "path/to/rice-disease-net")
sys.path.insert(0, "path/to/rice-disease-net/train")
from train.model import PaddyClassifier
config = json.load(open("config.json"))
processor = AutoImageProcessor.from_pretrained("harinpurumandla/rice-disease-net")
model = PaddyClassifier(num_classes=15, hidden_dim=512, dropout=0.3)
from safetensors.torch import load_file
model.load_state_dict(load_file("model.safetensors"))
model.eval()
# --- per-image inference ---
def predict(image_path: str) -> dict:
image = Image.open(image_path).convert("RGB")
pixel_values = processor(images=image, return_tensors="pt")["pixel_values"]
with torch.no_grad():
probs = torch.softmax(model(pixel_values), dim=1)[0]
idx = probs.argmax().item()
return {
"class": config["idx_to_class"][str(idx)],
"confidence": round(probs[idx].item(), 4),
"all_probs": {config["idx_to_class"][str(i)]: round(p.item(), 4)
for i, p in enumerate(probs)},
}
result = predict("paddy_leaf.jpg")
print(result)
# {'class': 'blast', 'confidence': 0.8731, 'all_probs': {...}}Classes
Evaluation — In-Domain Test Set (n=938)
Summary Metrics
Weighted metrics weight each class by its test-set support count. Macro metrics treat all 15 classes equally regardless of support.
Per-Class Results
Limitations and Known Issues
Weak classes:
bacterial_leaf_streak(F1=0.692, support=17): Only 17 test samples; the model is precise when confident but misses ~47% of actual cases. More field data needed.downy_mildew(F1=0.774): Visually similar to early blast and nutrient deficiency; low precision suggests over-prediction.blast(F1=0.888, recall=0.839): Leaf blast and neck blast were merged. Some blast images are classified as brown_spot.
Geographic scope: Training data covers Tamil Nadu (Paddy Doctor) and Bangladesh (BRRI). Performance on Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, and Southeast Asian varieties has not been validated. Expect degraded accuracy on field conditions significantly different from the training distribution.
Not a diagnostic tool: Model output should be reviewed by an agronomist before treatment decisions. Abiotic stress (potassium_deficiency) shares visual symptoms with several diseases.
Training Data
Total after SHA-256 exact dedup + pHash near-dedup (Hamming ≤ 10): 9,376 images. Split: 80% train / 10% val / 10% test (stratified, frozen test set).
Citations
Backbone:
@misc{oquab2023dinov2,
title={DINOv2: Learning Robust Visual Features without Supervision},
author={Maxime Oquab and others},
year={2023},
eprint={2304.07193},
archivePrefix={arXiv}
}Paddy Doctor dataset:
@misc{paddy-disease-classification,
author={Paddy Doctor and Pandarasamy Arjunan (Samy) and Petchiammal},
title={Paddy Doctor: Paddy Disease Classification},
year={2022},
howpublished={\url{https://kaggle.com/competitions/paddy-disease-classification}},
note={Kaggle}
}Mendeley dataset: Raki, Nishat Sultana; Bakki, Md. Abdul; Sheikh, Foysal; Pria, Mosa. Nadia Sultana; Parvin, Shahnaj; Matin, Mafiul Hasan (2026), "Rice Disease Image Dataset", Mendeley Data, V1, doi: 10.17632/jw7hp6r5gj.1
BRRI dataset: Attributed to Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (https://brri.gov.bd/). No formal citation provided by dataset authors.
