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Feature Papers in Smart Agriculture 2025

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart Agriculture".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 963

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Wonsuk (Daniel) Lee

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Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-0570, USA
Interests: precision agriculture; artificial intelligence; sensor development; machine vision/image processing; GNSS/GIS; variable rate technology; yield mapping; machine systems design; instrumentation; remote sensing; NIR spectroscopy; farm automation
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Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the section Smart Agriculture is now compiling a collection of papers submitted by the Editorial Board Members (EBMs) of our section and outstanding scholars in this research field. We welcome contributions as well as recommendations from the EBMs.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to publish a set of papers that typifies the very best insightful and influential original articles or reviews in which our section’s EBMs and outstanding scholars discuss key topics in the field. We expect these papers to be widely read and highly influential within the field. All papers in this Special Issue will be published in a printed edition book after the deadline and will be extensively promoted. The Special Issue engages in topics such as artificial intelligence, IoT, UAVs, and robots, and their applications in the field of smart farming, precision livestock management, aquaculture, greenhouse technology, etc. In addition, any articles related to smart agriculture are welcome that highlight technological innovation in software and hardware development applied to crop and animal production.

We would also like to take this opportunity to ask more scholars to join the section Smart Agriculture so that we can work together to further develop this exciting field of research.

Prof. Dr. Wonsuk (Daniel) Lee
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • sensor
  • artificial intelligence
  • IoT
  • UAV
  • robot
  • smart agriculture
  • smart farming
  • precision livestock management

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A Hybrid Compact Convolutional Transformer with Bilateral Filtering for Coffee Berry Disease Classification
by Biniyam Mulugeta Abuhayi and Andras Hajdu
Sensors 2025, 25(13), 3926; https://doi.org/10.3390/s25133926 - 24 Jun 2025
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Coffee berry disease (CBD), caused by Colletotrichum kahawae, significantly threatens global Coffee arabica production, leading to major yield losses. Traditional detection methods are often subjective and inefficient, particularly in resource-limited settings. While deep learning has advanced plant disease detection, most existing research targets [...] Read more.
Coffee berry disease (CBD), caused by Colletotrichum kahawae, significantly threatens global Coffee arabica production, leading to major yield losses. Traditional detection methods are often subjective and inefficient, particularly in resource-limited settings. While deep learning has advanced plant disease detection, most existing research targets leaf diseases, with limited focus on berry-specific infections like CBD. This study proposes a lightweight and accurate solution using a Compact Convolutional Transformer (CCT) for classifying healthy and CBD-affected coffee berries. The CCT model combines parallel convolutional branches for hierarchical feature extraction with a transformer encoder to capture long-range dependencies, enabling high performance on limited data. A dataset of 1737 coffee berry images was enhanced using bilateral filtering and color segmentation. The CCT model, integrated with a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) classifier and optimized through early stopping and regularization, achieved a validation accuracy of 97.70% and a sensitivity of 100% for CBD detection. Additionally, CCT-extracted features performed well with traditional classifiers, including Support Vector Machine (SVM) (82.47% accuracy; AUC 0.91) and Decision Tree (82.76% accuracy; AUC 0.86). Compared to pretrained models, the proposed system delivered superior accuracy (97.5%) with only 0.408 million parameters and faster training (2.3 s/epoch), highlighting its potential for real-time, low-resource deployment in sustainable coffee production systems. Full article
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Sustainable Self-Training Pig Detection System with Augmented Single Labeled Target Data for Solving Domain Shift Problem
by Junhee Lee, Heechan Chae, Seungwook Son, Jongwoong Seo, Yooil Suh, Jonguk Lee, Yongwha Chung and Daihee Park
Sensors 2025, 25(11), 3406; https://doi.org/10.3390/s25113406 - 28 May 2025
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As global pork consumption rises, livestock farms increasingly adopt deep learning-based automated monitoring systems for efficient pigsty management. Typically, a system applies a pre-trained model on a source domain to a target domain. However, real pigsty environments differ significantly from existing public datasets [...] Read more.
As global pork consumption rises, livestock farms increasingly adopt deep learning-based automated monitoring systems for efficient pigsty management. Typically, a system applies a pre-trained model on a source domain to a target domain. However, real pigsty environments differ significantly from existing public datasets regarding lighting conditions, camera angles, and animal density. These discrepancies result in a substantial domain shift, leading to severe performance degradation. Additionally, due to variations in the structure of pigsties, pig breeds, and sizes across farms, it is practically challenging to develop a single generalized model that can be applied to all environments. Overcoming this limitation through large-scale labeling presents considerable burdens in terms of time and cost. To address the degradation issue, this study proposes a self-training-based domain adaptation method that utilizes a single label on target (SLOT) sample from the target domain, a genetic algorithm (GA)-based data augmentation search (DAS) designed explicitly for SLOT data to optimize the augmentation parameters, and a super-low-threshold strategy to include low-confidence-scored pseudo-labels during self-training. The proposed system consists of the following three modules: (1) data collection module; (2) preprocessing module that selects key frames and extracts SLOT data; and (3) domain-adaptive pig detection module that applies DAS to SLOT data to generate optimized augmented data, which are used to train the base model. Then, the trained base model is improved through self-training, where a super-low threshold is applied to filter pseudo-labels. The experimental results show that the proposed system significantly improved the average precision (AP) from 36.86 to 90.62 under domain shift conditions, which achieved a performance close to fully supervised learning while relying solely on SLOT data. The proposed system maintained a robust detection performance across various pig-farming environments and demonstrated stable performance under domain shift conditions, validating its feasibility for real-world applications. Full article
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AI-Powered Vocalization Analysis in Poultry: Systematic Review of Health, Behavior, and Welfare Monitoring
by Venkatraman Manikandan and Suresh Neethirajan
Sensors 2025, 25(13), 4058; https://doi.org/10.3390/s25134058 - 29 Jun 2025
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Artificial intelligence and bioacoustics represent a paradigm shift in non-invasive poultry welfare monitoring through advanced vocalization analysis. This comprehensive systematic review critically examines the transformative evolution from traditional acoustic feature extraction—including Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs), spectral entropy, and spectrograms—to cutting-edge deep learning architectures [...] Read more.
Artificial intelligence and bioacoustics represent a paradigm shift in non-invasive poultry welfare monitoring through advanced vocalization analysis. This comprehensive systematic review critically examines the transformative evolution from traditional acoustic feature extraction—including Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs), spectral entropy, and spectrograms—to cutting-edge deep learning architectures encompassing Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, attention mechanisms, and groundbreaking self-supervised models such as wav2vec2 and Whisper. The investigation reveals compelling evidence for edge computing deployment via TinyML frameworks, addressing critical scalability challenges in commercial poultry environments characterized by acoustic complexity and computational constraints. Advanced applications spanning emotion recognition, disease detection, and behavioral phenotyping demonstrate unprecedented potential for real-time welfare assessment. Through rigorous bibliometric co-occurrence mapping and thematic clustering analysis, this review exposes persistent methodological bottlenecks: dataset standardization deficits, evaluation protocol inconsistencies, and algorithmic interpretability limitations. Critical knowledge gaps emerge in cross-species domain generalization and contextual acoustic adaptation, demanding urgent research prioritization. The findings underscore explainable AI integration as essential for establishing stakeholder trust and regulatory compliance in automated welfare monitoring systems. This synthesis positions acoustic AI as a cornerstone technology enabling ethical, transparent, and scientifically robust precision livestock farming, bridging computational innovation with biological relevance for sustainable poultry production systems. Future research directions emphasize multi-modal sensor integration, standardized evaluation frameworks, and domain-adaptive models capable of generalizing across diverse poultry breeds, housing conditions, and environmental contexts while maintaining interpretability for practical farm deployment. Full article
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