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CT-PestNet: A novel crop pest classification model based on cross-scale feature distillation enhancement and vision transformer with local token interaction

Youming Li ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: liym_133883@163.com

Affiliation School of Artificial Intelligence, Neijiang Normal University, Neijiang, Sichuan, China

https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8318-0344

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Weilin Cao,

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation School of Artificial Intelligence, Neijiang Normal University, Neijiang, Sichuan, China
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Liqiang Zhang

Roles Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Artificial Intelligence, Neijiang Normal University, Neijiang, Sichuan, China

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7493-7670

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CT-PestNet: A novel crop pest classification model based on cross-scale feature distillation enhancement and vision transformer with local token interaction

Youming Li,
Weilin Cao,
Liqiang Zhang

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Published: August 14, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0356061

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