Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Agro-Ecosystems (ICAIML-AE 2026)
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Agro-Ecosystems (ICAIML-AE 2026)
📍Pune, India🗓️ 2-3 July 2026
41 articles
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Peer-Review Statements
Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Kailas Patil, Vishal Meshram
All of the articles in this proceedings volume have been presented at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Agro-Ecosystems (ICAIML-AE 2026) on 2 July 2026 at Vishwakarma University, Pune, Maharashtra, India. These articles have been peer reviewed by the members...
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HTTP Flood Detection for Smart Agriculture Using Nginx and Flask
Kavita Kumavat, Sanjesh Pawale
The paper proposes a combined model to identify and prevent HTTP Flood Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks in smart agriculture systems with an Nginx-based filtering layer over a Flask-based monitoring system. The proposed system, in contrast to the traditional rule-based methods, presents a...
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Q-Learning with VLA Perception for Real-World Navigation Using Low-Cost Sensors
Madhuri Manohar Barhate, Aditya K. Vasipalli, Anushri Arora, Kaivalya Beohar, Param Bande, Aaysha Khan
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models allow robots to understand scenes alongside linguistic instructions. These models have computational requirements that are too demanding to implement on edge hardware like a Raspberry Pi and result in an unacceptable latency gap between the interpretation and decision-making...
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Intelligent Cyber Security Systems Using Machine Learning
Harshit Mehra, Priyanka Behki, Krishna Kumar Choudhary, Tamanna Jha, Vankayala Pallavi, Hiranya Sudha
The concern of Cybersecurity has increased due to drastic growth of internet technologies and digital services. In the earlier times the security systems were not that effective as they worked upon predefined rules and the attacks they knew. Those systems do not stand strong against the evolving threats...
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Attention-Based BiLSTM with Mutual Information Feature Selection for Improved Solar Radiation Prediction
Gautam Kumar, Yash Hooda, Ajay Kumar, Aayush Kumar, Sayan Khan, Shovon Dey
Solar radiation prediction is one of the important factors to be considered for the efficient usage of solar energy. Solar radiation is highly unpredictable because of the complex weather conditions and it is also highly variable. Therefore, the prediction of solar radiation is considered to be a challenging...
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Next-Generation Educational AI Using Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Research Trends and Open Problems
Ankita Amburle, Ashok Kanthe
The present study is a bibliometric evaluation and an extensive analysis of the literature that has emerged concerning retrieval augmented generation as an educational tool in AI as published in Scopus from 2021 to 2025. The purpose of the analysis is to assess the researchers’ potential in determining...
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Cross-Validated Machine Learning Stacking Ensemble Regression for CCTA-Based Coronary Artery Blockage Prediction
Ayush Vaze, Swarangi Gurav, Purushottam Mahajan, Kalyani Batwal, Omkaresh Kulkarni
Coronary artery disease (CAD) remains one of the top mortality causes around the world. Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) is an efficient non-invasive technique used for evaluation of coronary artery stenosis. It is nowadays used in various clinical applications, including screening and preprocedural assessment....
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IndianDeepGuard: Enhancing Deepfake Detection through Cultural and Multi-Modal Context
Kiah Monpara, Jeesha Savla, Mishree Sanura, Manan Shah, Prachi Tawde, Neha Agarwal
Deepfake technology has advanced rapidly, threatening information integrity across diverse demographics. This paper proposes IndianDeepGuard, a novel multi-modal framework designed to address generalization gaps when Western-based deepfake detectors are applied in the Indian context. The framework compares...
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Enhancing Brain Tumor Classification with Explainable AI: A Comparative Study of CNN Model
Vishvajeet Choudhary, Yogita D. Patil, Karthik Kurup, Tanishka Gophane, Mahesh Kapse, Pushkar Kumar
Classification of brain tumor from MRI is among the foremost important processes within the healthcare industry because it facilitates early diagnosis of the patients, which further improves their quality of life. The objective is to investigate the application of deep learning methods using the CNN...
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Hybrid Feature-Based Comparative Analysis of Supervised and Unsupervised ML-Based Intelligent Bot Detection Model for Social Media Data
Siddhi Kale, Vishal Shirsath, Pradip Salve, Akriti Biswas
Social media has become an important part of how people communicate and share information. However, the increasing use of it has led to rise in fake and automated bot accounts. These accounts create miscommunication and often spread fake news, spam, misleading information. Since bots are becoming difficult...
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A Systematic Review of Artificial Intelligence Applications Across the Agricultural Value Chain: Opportunities, Limitations and Ethical Frontiers
Abdul Hannan R. Dalal, Mohammed Danish Kolhar, Yuvraj Lahoti
Climate change, declining resources, population growth and increased food demand are increasingly threatening the profitability of farming and demand greater efficiency and sustainability in production systems. Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is a technology that can affect how decisions are made, how...
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A Comparative Study of CNN, Vision Transformer, and Hybrid Architectures for Psoriasis Image Classification
Yogita D. Patil, Yash Lund, Srushti Panara, Zoya Shaikh, Rehan Shaikh, Karthik Kurup
Psoriasis is an inflammatory skin disease which considerably impacts the quality of life, and thus the necessity to involve clinical experts for its correct diagnosis. Due to the resemblance of psoriasis with other similar dermatologic diseases and the unavailability of dermatologists in various geographical...
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RAG-LLM Powered Multi-Dataset Machine Learning Framework for Personalized Ayurvedic Migraine Management
Sakshi Hedke, Saniya Samant, Laxmi Bewoor
Past several decades millions of people are suffering from various neurological disorders and migraine is one of the severe condition affecting overall population. Normally the medication includes allopathic drugs which provide temporary relief but unable to handle root cause and use of such drugs for...
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AI-Based Mango Pest and Disease Detection Using MobileNetV2 with a Web-Integrated Farmer Decision Support Platform
Harsh Walke, Shambhavi Govindpurkar, Yash Phadtare, Dipak Musane, Himani Deshpande, Vidula Meshram
Plant diseases and pest infestations have a measurable impact on agricultural productivity, which results in substantial economic losses and decreased food quality across the world. To prevent these losses and to get the most out of the produce, early detection of such pests is essential. Mango, being...
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A Deep Learning-Based Integrated Smart Dairy Farming System for Cattle Health Monitoring and Milk Quality Analysis
Pratik Shingade, Adhik Sarak, Abhishek Walkoli, Lucky Ragde, Roshani Raut, Radha Deoghare
The modern dairy farming is shifting more towards intelligent and data-driven systems to improve productivity, animal welfare, and milk quality measurement. Nevertheless, conventional methods of monitoring are also based on manual observation leading to the late diagnosis of the disease and the lack...
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Deep Convolutional Framework for Multi-Crop Disease Identification
Santosh Nivrutti Shelke, Shrikant Salve, Mahendra Pratap Yadav, Pavitha Nooji, Mahendra K. Nivangune
Early and accurate crop disease identification and categorization are crucial problems for increasing agricultural productivity. Instead of seeking assistance with a professional diagnosis, farmers frequently just observe the plants. This article presents deep learning approaches based on convolutional...
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A Hybrid Machine Learning Framework for Crop Yield Prediction Using Multivariate Agro-Climate and Soil Data
Shrikant Karande, Rohan Jalan, Tejas Kedar, Vilas Ghonge, Amol Patil
Accurate crop yield forecasting is essential for efficient planning of agricultural resources, food security and sound policy making. The paper proposes a hybrid deep learning framework for crop yield prediction imploying one-dimensional convolutional neural network and long short-term memory network....
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Artificial Intelligence in Precision Agriculture: A Systematic Survey of Technologies, Applications, and Future Research Directions
Tarun Madan Kanade, Shuchi Gautam, Jonathan Sudhir Joseph, Tushar Savale, Radhakrishna Batule
This study uses the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Diffusion of Innovation to analyze the rapidly growing literature on precision agriculture (PA) AI applications. Data-driven agricultural decision-making using artificial intelligence is increasingly vital as agricultural systems are expected...
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Advancements in Crop Phenological Stage Mapping Using Satellite Imagery and Spectral Analysis: A Review
Shrikant R. Nikam, Sarika A. Kondekar
Crop phenology has become an important part of crop mapping, yield prediction and for better agricultural decisions for such as irrigation, fertilization and crop drought control. The satellite sensors such as sentinel-2 and landsat-8/9 can be used to obtained high resolution imagery that can be used...
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Early-Season Crop Yield Prediction Using Multi-Sensor Data Fusion: A Review of Emerging Techniques
Nilesh Khisty, Mohammad Muqeem
Crop yield prediction contributes significantly in food security and managing agricultural resources. For larger field area it is practically impossible for field based observations for crop yield estimation. From the last few years remote sensing and geographic information system proves to be prominent...
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A Dynamic Weather-Driven Multi-crop Framework for Crop Water Demand Assessment Using GDD-Based Phenology and Climatic Crop Coefficient Adjustment in Semi-Arid Agriculture
Dhanali Khandagale, Maya Kurulekar, Mahesh Kurulekar, Karthik Kurup
Accurate evaluation of crop evapotranspiration (ETc) is imperative for climate-based irrigation scheduling management within semi-arid zones. Traditional methods often employ predetermined crop calendars along with general crop coefficient values, thereby not adapting themselves to climate-based variability...
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A Small Language Model Framework for Intelligent Agricultural Knowledge Retrieval and Context-Aware Decision Support
Mohammed Danish Kolhar, Abdul Hannan R. Dalal, Yuvraj Lahoti
Artificial intelligence is transforming modern agriculture by enabling intelligent advisory services, efficient resource utilization, and data-driven decision-making. However, many language-model-based agricultural systems rely on computationally intensive architectures that are difficult to deploy in...
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Geospatial Technology for River Water Quality and Morphological Assessment: A Review of Recent Advances
Janwale Asaram Pandurang, Mayur Deshmukh
Urban rivers in India are showing sign of deterioration – murky water, collapsing banks, and increasing in pollution that far exceeds natural recovery rates. Industrial waste, populated cities’ sewage, and agriculture runoffs enter rivers faster than they can recover. Field based monitoring is reliable...
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A Multi-Stage AI Framework for Solar Energy Prediction and Smart Irrigation Scheduling with Economic and Land Optimization
Karthik Kurup, Maya Kurulekar, Mahesh Kurulekar
Effective management of water and energy resources has become an important issue for contemporary agriculture, especially with regard to the emergence of renewable energy sources such as solar energy. Nevertheless, the intermittency of solar energy can affect the process of providing energy supply in...
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Ensemble Machine Learning Framework for Multi-Horizon Electricity Demand Forecasting Across Indian Grid Regions
Medha Wyawahare, Arush Ambavale, Krishna Ardhapurkar, Deven Bagul
Forecasting electricity load is an important issue in power system planning, stability and resources allocation in developing countries. This paper deals with multi-horizon forecasting across geographically diverse Indian grid regions by proposing an ensemble architecture, which merges long short-term...
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Sustainable Investment Trends Among Retail Investor in Pune: - A Behavioral Study on Investment Preferences and the role of Artificial Intelligence in Decision Making
Pallavi Ingale, Karthika Devan, Arati Bhokare, Ashish Bhasme, Priyanka Patil, Chirag Bafna
Sustainable investment has developed as an increasingly important theme in financial markets as environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reflections gain bigger attention alongside financial returns. At the same time, advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are reshaping investment decision-making...
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Supervised Learning and IoT Sensor-Based Landslide Detection and Early Warning System: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation
Ayush Ingrulkar, Nishant Pawar, Vishwa Shende, Aditya Ghadge, Ramesh Lavhe, Ashok Kalal
Landslides present a significant natural disaster that leads to considerable damage to physical infrastructure and human lives, especially in hilly areas. In this work, a novel landslide detection and early warning system is designed that uses the combination of U-Net satellite image segmentation and...
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Artificial Intelligence for a Sustainable Ecosystem: Opportunities, Structural Challenges, and Regulatory Pathways
Deepshikha Sharma, Rahi Alhat, Shruti Das
Climate change is a universal challenge. The escalating cases of extreme weather conditions worldwide, such as forest fires, drought, and intense rains, remind us of the increasing danger to our survival. The Conference of Parties (COP) 21 identified a maximum global warming limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius....
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Uncloaking Green Finance and Taxonomy: Overlapping Explainable AI and ESG-centric Human Oversight in the future of India’s Sustainable Future
Kshitij Naikade, Sahil Jaspreet Singh
The intersection of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (AI) with the applicability of Environmental Social Governance (ESG) with Green Finance is the future of India’s Sustainable Future. This study analyses the necessity of involving corporate governance and Green Finance with the principle of Human...
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Governing Intelligent Machines on the Farm Field: Legal and Regulatory Frameworks for Artificial Intelligence in Climate-Smart Agriculture — A Comparative Analysis of India, the European Union and the United States
Vibhuti Jaswal, Shefali Singh
The deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) is taking place in various arenas and climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is not an exception. AI in agriculture is used to measure precision in irrigation and monitor crops through satellite-based tools, AI-driven carbon sequestration tracking, and algorithmic...
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Rethinking Intellectual Property in the Age of AI: A Policy Framework for Agricultural Biotechnology
Shruti Das, Deepshikha Sharma, Rahi Alhat, Vidhya Praveen Shetty
Traditionally human authorship is recognized by national copyright legislations and international instruments like Berne Convention, TRIPS Agreement, etc. The notion is now challenged by the advent of Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence is playing a pivotal role in predicting protein structure...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Agriculture and Accountability (Liability): A Legal Perspective
Yuvraj Dilip Patil, Sukdeo Ingale
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming agricultural sector resulting in precision farming, increased productivity through resource management. Hence, it is necessary to examine this integration from legal perspective focusing on accountability for losses caused. The literature existing till...
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Patentability of Genetically Modified Seeds in India: Doctrinal Ambiguities and Regulatory Interface in the light of Monsanto–Nuziveedu Litigation
Padmaja Kathikar, Rahul Nikam
This paper examines the legal challenges surrounding the patentability of genetically modified (GM) seeds in India, with specific reference to the Monsanto v. Nuziveedu dispute. It analyses the ambiguity under Section 3(j) of the Patents Act, 1970, which excludes plants, seeds, and biological processes...
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Black Boxes in the Field: Trade Secrets, Algorithmic Opacity, and a Tiered Disclosure Framework for AgTech in India
Unmesha S. Patil, Apurva Bhilare, G. Manu Joseph
Agricultural technology platforms in India have now been increasingly contributing to decisions that impact the farmers of the country significantly. This includes routine recommendations on what variety should preferably be planted, the amount of pesticide dosing. It also includes parametric crop insurance...
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When Algorithms Fail the Farm: Rethinking Liability Frameworks for AI in Agriculture — A Comparative Study of India, the EU, and the United States
Arushi M. Mehta, Simran Singh
The emerging technological intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming agriculture. Whether it is precision farming, predictive analytics or biotechnology integration, the agricultural sector is evolving with these technologies. While being promising by enhancing agricultural productivity and sustainability,...
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Design and Implementation of a Web Platform for Unified Outcome-Based Education Data Management
Aditya A. Dharmashale, Prajakta Khaire, Yash Parkhi, Uzma Munshi, Ashok Kalal, Amit Kadam, Akash Dodke
Outcome-Based Education (OBE) has become core standard for modern education. Higher education institutions have slowly shifted from traditional content-based learning approach to which that is concentrated on student learning experience. OBE focuses on what students are expected to show at the end of...
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Cybersecurity Challenges in Digital Agriculture: A Hybrid AI-Based Framework
Susmita Suresh Pagare, Snehal Ashish Patil, Tarun Madan Kanade, Snehal Belkhode
Digital agriculture uses AI, ML, IoT, and precision farming to revolutionize farming. These technologies help sustainable agricultural growth by improving crop monitoring, irrigation management, disease detection, yield prediction, and resource optimization. However, smart farming ecosystems’ growing...
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Optimization-Enhanced CSI-Aware Mobility Management for 5G and 6G Networks: A Structured Review
Pratyush Prakash Urade, Ashok Kanthe
The mobility of current wireless networks (e.g. 5G and next-gen 6G) is far more complex than ever before with the combination of ultra-dense deployments, heterogeneous radio access technologies and strict quality of service (QoS) requirements. Many machines learning (ML) methods for predicting handover...
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A Multi-Source AXI4-Stream Arbiter with Priority-Based Flow Control for Heterogeneous AI Systems
Gaurav Nanaware, Ashwini Kulkarni, Varada Inamdar
While data movement latency is still a big problem for AI with heterogeneous systems. To overcome this, we are introducing a Multi-source AXI4-Stream interconnect with an input arbitration scheme Implement stage and asynchronous FIFO buffers for robust data flow by Between different processing elements....
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Digitizing Campus Activities: Enhancing Transparency and Efficiency in University Event Management
Punit Kumar, Priyanka Behki, Mansi Narang, Vansh Sharma, Aryan Ranjan, Ankur Saini
Colleges and universities are known to host various academic, cultural, and technological events throughout the year. However, many organizations continue to handle their events through notice boards, social media announcements, and different web forms, which are often inefficient. This reliance typically...
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Understanding Gen Z Consumer Purchase Intention for Sustainably Packaged Agri Products
Sweety Thakka, Khushbu Kadukar
Environmental sustainability is one of the main issues in today’s consumer decision making. In particular, Gen-Z consumers are paying a lot of attention to environmental issues when choosing goods and services. This paper investigates the perception of generation Z customers, their intentions to buy...