PlantaNet and PlantaNetLite: Efficient and explainable multi-crop plant disease classification via transformer benchmarking and custom lightweight CNNs

• Md. Sifat Haque Zidan,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2635-2148

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• Al Imran,

  Roles Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-0570-8961

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• Md. Kayes Mia,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  https://orcid.org/0009-0003-3747-3477

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• Muhammad Hussain,

  Roles Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Ahmed Faizul Haque Dhrubo ,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: ahmed.dhrubo@northsouth.edu

  Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7976-624X

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• Mohammad Abdul Qayum

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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