A Comprehensive Review of Diffusion Models in Smart Agriculture: Progress, Applications, and Challenges

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18376v5
• Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2025 02:05:39 GMT
• Title: A Comprehensive Review of Diffusion Models in Smart Agriculture: Progress, Applications, and Challenges
• Authors: Xing Hu, Haodong Chen, Qianqian Duan, Choon Ki Ahn, Huiliang Shang, Dawei Zhang,
• Abstract summary: Diffusion models have demonstrated potential in agricultural image processing, data augmentation, and remote sensing analysis.<n>Compared to traditional generative adversarial networks (GANs), diffusion models exhibit greater training stability and superior image generation quality.<n>This paper reviews recent advancements in the application of diffusion models within agriculture, focusing on their roles in crop disease and pest detection, remote sensing image enhancement, crop growth prediction, and agricultural resource management.
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• Abstract: With the global population increasing and arable land resources becoming increasingly limited, smart and precision agriculture have emerged as essential directions for sustainable agricultural development. Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly deep learning models, has been widely adopted in applications such as crop monitoring, pest detection, and yield prediction. Among recent generative models, diffusion models have demonstrated considerable potential in agricultural image processing, data augmentation, and remote sensing analysis. Compared to traditional generative adversarial networks (GANs), diffusion models exhibit greater training stability and superior image generation quality, effectively addressing challenges such as limited annotated datasets and imbalanced sample distributions in agricultural scenarios. This paper reviews recent advancements in the application of diffusion models within agriculture, focusing on their roles in crop disease and pest detection, remote sensing image enhancement, crop growth prediction, and agricultural resource management. Diffusion models have been found useful in improving tasks like image generation, denoising, and data augmentation in agriculture, especially when environmental noise or variability is present. While their high computational requirements and limited generalizability across domains remain concerns, the approach is gradually proving effective in real-world applications such as precision crop monitoring. As research progresses, these models may help support sustainable agriculture and address emerging challenges in food systems.

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