🌿 SCOLD: A Vision-Language Foundation Model for Leaf Disease Identification

SCOLD (Leaf Disases Vision-Language) is a multimodal model that maps images and text descriptions into a shared embedding space. It combines a Swin Transformer as the image encoder and RoBERTa as the text encoder, projected to a 512-dimensional common space.

This model is developed for cross-modal retrieval, few-shot classification, and explainable AI in agriculture, especially for plant disease diagnosis from both images and domain-specific text prompts.

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🚀 Model Details

Component	Architecture
Image Encoder	Swin Base (patch4, window7, 224 resolution)
Text Encoder	RoBERTa-base
Projection Head	Linear layer (to 512-D space)
Normalization	L2 on both embeddings
Training Task	Contrastive learning

The final embeddings from image and text encoders are aligned using cosine similarity.

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✅ Intended Use

• Vision-language embedding for classification or retrieval tasks
• Few-shot learning in agricultural or medical datasets
• Multimodal interpretability or zero-shot transfer

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🧪 How to Use

import torch
from transformers import RobertaTokenizer
from torchvision import transforms
from PIL import Image
from modeling_lvl import LVL  # Replace with your module or package

# Load model
model = LVL()
model.load_state_dict(torch.load("pytorch_model.bin", map_location="cpu"))
model.eval()

# Text preprocessing
tokenizer = RobertaTokenizer.from_pretrained("roberta-base")
text = "A maize leaf with bacterial blight"
inputs = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt")

# Image preprocessing
image = Image.open("path_to_leaf.jpg").convert("RGB")
transform = transforms.Compose([
    transforms.Resize((224, 224)),
    transforms.ToTensor()
])
image_tensor = transform(image).unsqueeze(0)

# Inference
with torch.no_grad():
    image_emb, text_emb = model(image_tensor, inputs["input_ids"], inputs["attention_mask"])
    similarity = torch.nn.functional.cosine_similarity(image_emb, text_emb)
    print(f"Similarity score: {similarity.item():.4f}")

Please cite this paper if this code is useful for you!

@misc{quoc2025visionlanguage,
  author       = {Quoc, K. N. and Thu, L. L. T. and Quach, L. D.},
  title        = {A Vision-Language Foundation Model for Leaf Disease Identification},
  year         = {2025},
  publisher    = {Authorea Preprints},
  url          = {10.36227/techrxiv.174062971.11176782/v1}
}