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With the expansion of citrus plantations, the intelligent detection and prevention of diseases and pests have become essential for advancing smart agriculture. Traditional citrus leaf disease identification methods primarily rely on manual observation, which is often time-consuming, labor-intensive, and prone to inaccuracies due to inherent asymmetries in disease manifestations. This work introduces CBACA-YOLOv5, an enhanced YOLOv5s-based detection algorithm designed to effectively capture the symmetric and asymmetric features of common citrus leaf diseases. Specifically, the model integrates the convolutional block attention module (CBAM), which symmetrically enhances feature extraction across spatial and channel dimensions, significantly improving the detection of small and occluded targets. Additionally, we incorporate coordinate attention (CA) mechanisms into the YOLOv5s C3 module, explicitly addressing asymmetrical spatial distributions of disease features. The CARAFE upsampling module further optimizes feature fusion symmetry, enhancing the extraction efficiency and accelerating the network convergence. Experimental findings demonstrate that CBACA-YOLOv5 achieves an accuracy of 96.1% and a mean average precision (mAP) of 92.1%, and improvements of 0.6% and 2.3%, respectively, over the baseline model. The proposed CBACA-YOLOv5 model exhibits considerable robustness and reliability in detecting citrus leaf diseases under diverse and asymmetrical field conditions, thus holding substantial promise for practical integration into intelligent agricultural systems.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym17040617","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,18]],"date-time":"2025-04-18T08:24:07Z","timestamp":1744964647000},"page":"617","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["CBACA-YOLOv5: A Symmetric and Asymmetric Attention-Driven Detection Framework for Citrus Leaf Disease Identification"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0004-3314-9781","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jiaxian","family":"Zhu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science, Zhaoqing University, Zhaoqing 526061, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jiahong","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science, Zhaoqing University, Zhaoqing 526061, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Huiyang","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science, Zhaoqing University, Zhaoqing 526061, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8333-7415","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Weihua","family":"Bai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science, Zhaoqing University, Zhaoqing 526061, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1920-8891","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Teng","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Cyberspace Security (School of Cryptology), Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China"},{"name":"Yangtze Delta Region Institute, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Quzhou 324003, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2315","DOI":"10.1007\/s11629-023-7941-9","article-title":"Moderate scale and realization potential of new citrus-planting business entities in hilly and mountainous areas in China","volume":"20","author":"Zhang","year":"2023","journal-title":"J. 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