2025/07/02 by Ejaz, Muhammad Hassam, Muhammad Bilal, Bilal, Muhammad +6
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #Date Palm Research Studies #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Insect behavior and control techniques #Smart Agriculture and AI
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2507.01494
openalex publication_date 2025/07/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Insect pests continue to bring a serious threat to crop yields around the world, and traditional methods for monitoring them are often slow, manual, and difficult to scale. In recent years, deep learning has emerged as a powerful solution, with techniques like convolutional neural networks (CNNs), vision transformers (ViTs), and hybrid models gaining popularity for automating pest detection. This review looks at 37 carefully selected studies published between 2018 and 2025, all focused on AI-based pest classification. The selected research is organized by crop type, pest species, model architecture, dataset usage, and key technical challenges. The early studies relied heavily on CNNs but latest work is shifting toward hybrid and transformer-based models that deliver higher accuracy and better contextual understanding. Still, challenges like imbalanced datasets, difficulty in detecting small pests, limited generalizability, and deployment on edge devices remain significant hurdles. Overall, this review offers a structured overview of the field, highlights useful datasets, and outlines the key challenges and future directions for AI-based pest monitoring systems.