Abstract:Pear leaf spot disease, caused by fungi of the genus Alternaria, is a widespread infectious disease that severely impacts the growth and yield of pear trees. Qualitative analysis of the infection severity of pear leaf spot disease, coupled with precise pesticide application based on this assessment, is of paramount importance for reducing economic losses and achieving a reduction in pesticide usage. The hyperspectral imaging technology was employed to analyze different types of pear leaves—-healthy, mild, moderate, and severe leaves. By integrating spectral, image, and chlorophyll features, a high?precision disease grading model was developed to accurately classify and assess the severity of black spot disease on pear leaves. Hyperspectral data were collected by using a specialized imaging system. The spectral data were preprocessed with Savitzky?Golay (SG) smoothing, and characteristic wavelengths were selected through the successive projection algorithm (SPA) and competitive adaptive reweighted sampling (CARS), which identified the optimal wavelengths (OWs1 and OWs2). Texture features (TFs) were extracted by using gray?level co?occurrence matrix (GLCM) analysis. chlorophyll content (SPAD) was measured with a plant nutrition meter and served as an indicator of disease severity. Different combinations of spectral, texture, and chlorophyll features were used as input variables to build disease grading models based on radial basis function neural networks (RBFNN), convolutional neural networks (CNN), and a hybrid CNN?LSTM model incorporating an attention mechanism (CLATT). The models? performances were compared and analyzed. The results from the test set showed that the CLATT model, which utilized the combined features of OWs1, TFs, and SPAD, achieved the highest classification accuracy, with an average recognition rate of 98.63%. The detection accuracies for healthy, mild, moderate, and severe leaf samples reached 98.00%, 98.21%, 99.24%, and 99.06%, respectively. The research results can provide ideas for grading detection of pear leaf black spot disease and guide the implementation of accurate pesticide application.