AgriDoctor: A Multimodal Intelligent Assistant for Agriculture

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Main Authors: Zhang, Mingqing, Xu, Zhuoning, Wang, Peijie, Li, Rongji, Wang, Liang, Liu, Qiang, Xu, Jian, Zhang, Xuyao, Wu, Shu
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author Zhang, Mingqing
Xu, Zhuoning
Wang, Peijie
Li, Rongji
Wang, Liang
Liu, Qiang
Xu, Jian
Zhang, Xuyao
Wu, Shu
Wang, Liang
author_facet Zhang, Mingqing
Xu, Zhuoning
Wang, Peijie
Li, Rongji
Wang, Liang
Liu, Qiang
Xu, Jian
Zhang, Xuyao
Wu, Shu
Wang, Liang
contents Accurate crop disease diagnosis is essential for sustainable agriculture and global food security. Existing methods, which primarily rely on unimodal models such as image-based classifiers and object detectors, are limited in their ability to incorporate domain-specific agricultural knowledge and lack support for interactive, language-based understanding. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) and large vision-language models (LVLMs) have opened new avenues for multimodal reasoning. However, their performance in agricultural contexts remains limited due to the absence of specialized datasets and insufficient domain adaptation. In this work, we propose AgriDoctor, a modular and extensible multimodal framework designed for intelligent crop disease diagnosis and agricultural knowledge interaction. As a pioneering effort to introduce agent-based multimodal reasoning into the agricultural domain, AgriDoctor offers a novel paradigm for building interactive and domain-adaptive crop health solutions. It integrates five core components: a router, classifier, detector, knowledge retriever and LLMs. To facilitate effective training and evaluation, we construct AgriMM, a comprehensive benchmark comprising 400000 annotated disease images, 831 expert-curated knowledge entries, and 300000 bilingual prompts for intent-driven tool selection. Extensive experiments demonstrate that AgriDoctor, trained on AgriMM, significantly outperforms state-of-the-art LVLMs on fine-grained agricultural tasks, establishing a new paradigm for intelligent and sustainable farming applications.
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Zhang, Mingqing
Xu, Zhuoning
Wang, Peijie
Li, Rongji
Wang, Liang
Liu, Qiang
Xu, Jian
Zhang, Xuyao
Wu, Shu
Wang, Liang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Accurate crop disease diagnosis is essential for sustainable agriculture and global food security. Existing methods, which primarily rely on unimodal models such as image-based classifiers and object detectors, are limited in their ability to incorporate domain-specific agricultural knowledge and lack support for interactive, language-based understanding. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) and large vision-language models (LVLMs) have opened new avenues for multimodal reasoning. However, their performance in agricultural contexts remains limited due to the absence of specialized datasets and insufficient domain adaptation. In this work, we propose AgriDoctor, a modular and extensible multimodal framework designed for intelligent crop disease diagnosis and agricultural knowledge interaction. As a pioneering effort to introduce agent-based multimodal reasoning into the agricultural domain, AgriDoctor offers a novel paradigm for building interactive and domain-adaptive crop health solutions. It integrates five core components: a router, classifier, detector, knowledge retriever and LLMs. To facilitate effective training and evaluation, we construct AgriMM, a comprehensive benchmark comprising 400000 annotated disease images, 831 expert-curated knowledge entries, and 300000 bilingual prompts for intent-driven tool selection. Extensive experiments demonstrate that AgriDoctor, trained on AgriMM, significantly outperforms state-of-the-art LVLMs on fine-grained agricultural tasks, establishing a new paradigm for intelligent and sustainable farming applications.
title AgriDoctor: A Multimodal Intelligent Assistant for Agriculture
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17044