Ph.d. Dissertation

2023 Feb 22, Enhanced Plant Disease Recognition with Limited Training Dataset Using Image Translation and Two-Step Transfer Learning. Link.

Peer reviewed paper

Meng, Yao, Mingle Xu (equal contribution), Hyongsuk Kim, Sook Yoon, Yongchae Jeong, and Dong Sun Park. “Known and unknown class recognition on plant species and diseases.” Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 215 (2023): 108408. Link.

Xu, Mingle, Hyongsuk Kim, Jucheng Yang, Alvaro Fuentes, Yao Meng, Sook Yoon, Taehyun Kim, and Dong Sun Park. “Embracing limited and imperfect training datasets: opportunities and challenges in plant disease recognition using deep learning.” Frontiers in Plant Science 14 (2023). Link.

Xu, Mingle, Sook Yoon, Alvaro Fuentes, and Dong Sun Park. “A comprehensive survey of image augmentation techniques for deep learning.” Pattern Recognition (2023): 109347. Selected as an outstanding paper for September 2023 by the journal. Link.

Xu, Mingle, Sook Yoon, Chenmou Wu, Jeonghyun Baek, and Dong Sun Park. “Plantclef2023: A bigger training dataset contributes more than advanced pretraining methods for plant identification.” Working Notes of CLEF (2023). Link.

Dong, Jiuqing, Jaehwan Lee, Alvaro Fuentes, Mingle Xu, Sook Yoon, Mun Haeng Lee, and Dong Sun Park. “Data-centric annotation analysis for plant disease detection: Strategy, consistency, and performance.” Frontiers in Plant Science 13 (2022): 1037655. Link.

Xu, Mingle, Sook Yoon, Yongchae Jeong, and Dong Sun Park. “Transfer learning for versatile plant disease recognition with limited data.” Frontiers in Plant Science 13 (2022): 4506. Link.

Xu, Mingle, Sook Yoon, Alvaro Fuentes, Jucheng Yang, and Dong Sun Park. “Style-consistent image translation: a novel data augmentation paradigm to improve plant disease recognition.” Frontiers in Plant Science 12 (2022): 3361. Link.

Meng, Yao, Mingle Xu, Sook Yoon, Yongchae Jeong, and Dong Sun Park. “Flexible and high quality plant growth prediction with limited data.” Frontiers in Plant Science 13 (2022). Link.

Xu, Mingle, Sook Yoon, Yongchae Jeong, Jaesu Lee, and Dong Sun Park. “Transfer learning with self-supervised vision transformer for large-scale plant identification.” In International conference of the cross-language evaluation forum for European languages (Springer;), pp. 2253-2261. 2022.

Xu, Mingle, Yongchae Jeong, Dong Sun Park, and Sook Yoon. “Enhanced Class-Specific Spatial Normalization for Image Generation.” IEEE Access 10 (2022): 6569-6579. Link.

Xu, Mingle, Jaehwan Lee, Alvaro Fuentes, Dong Sun Park, Jucheng Yang, and Sook Yoon. “Instance-level image translation with a local discriminator.” IEEE Access 9 (2021): 111802-111813. Link.

Xu, Mingle, Xiaoming You, and Sheng Liu. “A novel heuristic communication heterogeneous dual population ant colony optimization algorithm.” IEEE Access 5 (2017): 18506-18515. Link.

Preprint or submitted papers

Xu, Mingle, Jaehwan Lee, Sook Yoon, Hyongsuk Kim, and Dong Sun Park. “Variation-Aware Semantic Image Synthesis.” arXiv preprint. Arxiv Link.

Li, Jiajia, Mingle Xu, Lirong Xiang, Dong Chen, Weichao Zhuang, Xunyuan Yin, and Zhaojian Li. “Foundation Models in Smart Agriculture: Basics, Opportunities, and Challenges.” Arxiv Link.

Mingle Xu, Ji Eun Park, Jaehwan Lee, Jucheng Yang, and Sook Yoon. “Plant Disease Recognition Datasets in the Age of Deep Learning: Challenges and Opportunities”. Arxiv link.