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76 Citations
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16 November 2023

In tasks that require ship detection and recognition, the irregular shapes of ships and complex backgrounds pose significant challenges. This paper presents an advanced extension of the YOLOv8 model to address these challenges. A lightweight visual t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,292 Views
15 Pages

9 April 2024

Aiming at the problems of target detection models in traffic scenarios including a large number of parameters, heavy computational burden, and high application cost, this paper introduces an enhanced lightweight real-time detection algorithm, which e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Image Processing and Analysis for Object Detection: 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
565 Views
21 Pages

Vehicle damage detection is an important task in intelligent transportation systems and insurance assessment, yet it remains challenging due to the subtle appearance, irregular shapes, and spatial dispersion of damage regions in complex environments....

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicle and Transportation Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,825 Views
13 Pages

An Enhanced Single-Stage Neural Network for Object Detection in Transmission Line Inspection

  • Changyu Cai,
  • Jianglong Nie,
  • Jie Tong,
  • Zhao Chen and ,
  • Xiangnan Xu and
  • Zhouqiang He
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

To address the issue of human object detection in transmission line inspection, an enhanced single-stage neural network is proposed, which is based on the improvement of the YOLOv7-tiny model. Firstly, a lighter GSConv module is utilized to optimize...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Image Processing Based on Convolution Neural Network)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,525 Views
23 Pages

Modified Lightweight YOLO v8 Model for Fast and Precise Indoor Occupancy Detection

  • Hanyuan Zhang,
  • Luyan Liu,
  • Jingxue Bi,
  • Hongbin Liu and ,
  • Zetao Wen,
  • Lingyun Bi and
  • Guobiao Yao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

29 December 2025

Fast and accurate indoor occupancy detection is critical for energy efficiency and emergency rescue in the fields of smart building and indoor positioning. However, existing image-based indoor occupancy detection models often neglect small human targ...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
9,276 Views
29 Pages

5 May 2023

The specific characteristics of remote sensing images, such as large directional variations, large target sizes, and dense target distributions, make target detection a challenging task. To improve the detection performance of models while ensuring r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Image Processing for Object Detection)
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  • Open Access
497 Views
28 Pages

24 August 2026

Accurate and rapid detection of citrus leaf diseases is important for early diagnosis, precision orchard management, and the reduction of economic losses in citrus production. Automatic detection remains difficult because early lesions are often smal...

(This article belongs to the Section Smart Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,191 Views
14 Pages

QYOLO: Contextual Query-Assisted Object Detection in High-Resolution Images

  • Mingyang Gao,
  • Wenrui Wang,
  • Jia Mao,
  • Jun Xiong and ,
  • Zhenming Wang and
  • Bo Wu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 September 2024

High-resolution imagery captured by drones can detect critical components on high-voltage transmission towers, providing inspection personnel with essential maintenance insights and improving the efficiency of power line inspections. The high-resolut...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Blending Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with the Internet of Things: Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,900 Views
15 Pages

A Sewer Pipeline Defect Detection Method Based on Improved YOLOv5

  • Tong Wang,
  • Yuhang Li,
  • Yidi Zhai,
  • Weihua Wang and
  • Rongjie Huang

21 August 2023

To address the issues of strong subjectivity, low efficiency, and difficulty in on-site model deployment encountered in existing CCTV defect detection of pipelines, this article proposes an object detection model based on an improved YOLOv5s algorith...

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  • Open Access
643 Views
19 Pages

YOLOv10-TWD: An Improved YOLOv10n for Terracotta Warrior Recognition

  • Yalin Li,
  • Liang Wang,
  • Xinyuan Zhang,
  • Sijie Dong and
  • Xinjuan Zhu

9 March 2026

To address challenges such as complex backgrounds, partial occlusion, and high similarity of details in Terracotta Warrior image recognition, this paper proposes a lightweight detection method, YOLOv10-TWD, based on an improved YOLOv10n. Specifically...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,004 Views
16 Pages

20 June 2024

Real-time target detection plays an important role in campus intelligent surveillance systems. This paper introduces Soft-NMS, GSConv, Triplet Attention, and other advanced technologies to propose a lightweight pedestrian and vehicle detection model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,963 Views
23 Pages

Equipment Identification and Localization Method Based on Improved YOLOv5s Model for Production Line

  • Ming Yu,
  • Qian Wan,
  • Songling Tian,
  • Yanyan Hou and ,
  • Yimiao Wang and
  • Jian Zhao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 December 2022

Intelligent video surveillance based on artificial intelligence, image processing, and other advanced technologies is a hot topic of research in the upcoming era of Industry 5.0. Currently, low recognition accuracy and low location precision of devic...

(This article belongs to the Topic Modern Technologies and Manufacturing Systems, 2nd Volume)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
660 Views
19 Pages

11 February 2026

Image-based detection of concrete water tank damage in mining areas holds promise for practical applications. However, current deep learning-based detection algorithms often face challenges in balancing accuracy with computational complexity for real...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Health Monitoring and Management of Building and Energy Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,928 Views
10 Pages

GSD-YOLO: A Lightweight Decoupled Wheat Scab Spore Detection Network Based on Yolov7-Tiny

  • Dongyan Zhang,
  • Wenfeng Tao,
  • Tao Cheng,
  • Xingen Zhou and ,
  • Gensheng Hu,
  • Hongbo Qiao,
  • Wei Guo,
  • Ziheng Wang and
  • Chunyan Gu
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

12 December 2024

Aimed at the problem of the difference between intra-class and inter-class pathogenic spores of Wheat Scab image being small and difficult to distinguish, in this paper, we propose a lightweight decoupled Wheat Scab spore detection network based on Y...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Citations
12,301 Views
18 Pages

26 December 2024

Arbitrary-oriented ship detection has become challenging due to problems of high resolution, poor imaging clarity, and large size differences between targets in remote sensing images. Most of the existing ship detection methods are difficult to use s...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,896 Views
21 Pages

Optical Remote Sensing Ship Recognition and Classification Based on Improved YOLOv5

  • Jun Jian,
  • Long Liu,
  • Yingxiang Zhang,
  • Ke Xu and
  • Jiaxuan Yang

1 September 2023

Due to the special characteristics of the shooting distance and angle of remote sensing satellites, the pixel area of ship targets is small, and the feature expression is insufficient, which leads to unsatisfactory ship detection performance and even...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing for Maritime Monitoring and Vessel Identification)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
2,871 Views
15 Pages

The precise detection of diseases is crucial for the effective treatment of pear trees and to improve their fruit yield and quality. Currently, recognizing plant diseases in complex backgrounds remains a significant challenge. Therefore, a lightweigh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Agricultural Machinery and Technology for Fruit Tree Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,892 Views
22 Pages

Overhead Power Line Damage Detection: An Innovative Approach Using Enhanced YOLOv8

  • Yuting Wu,
  • Tianjian Liao,
  • Fan Chen,
  • Huiquan Zeng and ,
  • Sujian Ouyang and
  • Jiansheng Guan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 February 2024

This paper presents an enhanced version of YOLOv8 specifically designed for detecting damage in overhead power lines. Firstly, to improve the model’s robustness, an adaptive threshold mechanism is introduced that can dynamically adjust the dete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,473 Views
23 Pages

18 October 2024

To address the challenges of complex backgrounds and small, easily confused fire and smoke targets in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-based forest fire detection, we propose an improved forest smoke and fire detection algorithm based on YOLOv8. Conside...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wildfire Monitoring and Risk Management in Forests)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,396 Views
14 Pages

14 November 2023

In order to solve the existing distracted driving behaviour detection algorithms’ problems such as low recognition accuracy, high leakage rate, high false recognition rate, poor real-time performance, etc., and to achieve high-precision real-ti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multimodal Data Fusion and Computational Optimization for Intelligent Perception)
  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
8,128 Views
19 Pages

FFYOLO: A Lightweight Forest Fire Detection Model Based on YOLOv8

  • Bensheng Yun,
  • Yanan Zheng,
  • Zhenyu Lin and
  • Tao Li

16 March 2024

Forest is an important resource for human survival, and forest fires are a serious threat to forest protection. Therefore, the early detection of fire and smoke is particularly important. Based on the manually set feature extraction method, the detec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Forest Fire Prediction and Detection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
595 Views
25 Pages

YOLOv8m-CGSE: An Improved Lightweight YOLOv8m for Marine Oil Spill Detection

  • Qingyang Wang,
  • Junjie Lu,
  • Bin Yang,
  • Chen Jiao and ,
  • Tao Yue,
  • Bo Song,
  • Jianwu Jiang,
  • Guoqing Zhou and
  • Jingwen Li
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) remote sensing images provide high-resolution and flexible monitoring data for oil spill detection. To address the high computational cost and low accuracy of traditional models, this study proposes an improved model, YO...

(This article belongs to the Section Marine Pollution)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,134 Views
21 Pages

This work suggests an enhanced natural environment animal detection algorithm based on YOLOv5s to address the issues of low detection accuracy and sluggish detection speed when automatically detecting and classifying large animals in natural environm...

(This article belongs to the Topic Computer Vision and Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,131 Views
23 Pages

AGS-YOLO: An Efficient Underwater Small-Object Detection Network for Low-Resource Environments

  • Weikai Sun,
  • Xiaoqun Liu,
  • Juan Hao,
  • Qiyou Yao and ,
  • Hailin Xi,
  • Yuwen Wu and
  • Zhaoye Xing
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Detecting underwater targets is crucial for ecological evaluation and the sustainable use of marine resources. To enhance environmental protection and optimize underwater resource utilization, this study proposes AGS-YOLO, an innovative underwater sm...

(This article belongs to the Topic Applications and Development of Underwater Robotics and Underwater Vision Technology, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,327 Views
21 Pages

27 September 2023

In the field of aerial remote sensing, detecting small objects in aerial images is challenging. Their subtle presence against broad backgrounds, combined with environmental complexities and low image resolution, complicates identification. While thei...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
5,441 Views
21 Pages

The cost-effectiveness, compact size, and inherent flexibility of UAV technology have garnered significant attention. Utilizing sensors, UAVs capture ground-based targets, offering a novel perspective for aerial target detection and data collection....

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,100 Views
21 Pages

20 December 2024

In industrial applications, robotic arm grasp detection tasks frequently suffer from inadequate accuracy and success rates, which result in reduced operational efficiency. Although existing methods have achieved some success, limitations remain in te...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,552 Views
20 Pages

A Lightweight Human Fall Detection Network

  • Xi Kan,
  • Shenghao Zhu,
  • Yonghong Zhang and
  • Chengshan Qian

9 November 2023

The rising issue of an aging population has intensified the focus on the health concerns of the elderly. Among these concerns, falls have emerged as a predominant health threat for this demographic. The YOLOv5 family represents the forefront of techn...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,328 Views
24 Pages

12 May 2025

Printed circuit boards (PCBs) are an indispensable part of electronic products, and their quality is crucial to the operational integrity and functional reliability of these products. Currently, existing PCB defect detection models are beset with iss...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,119 Views
19 Pages

Detecting rice leaf diseases in real-world field environments remains challenging due to varying lesion sizes, diverse lesion morphologies, complex backgrounds, and the limited availability of high-quality annotated datasets. Existing detection model...

(This article belongs to the Topic Digital Agriculture, Smart Farming and Crop Monitoring)
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  • Open Access
73 Citations
8,599 Views
20 Pages

14 August 2024

Concrete surface crack detection is a critical research area for ensuring the safety of infrastructure, such as bridges, tunnels and nuclear power plants, and facilitating timely structural damage repair. Addressing issues in existing methods, such a...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,183 Views
14 Pages

29 November 2023

This paper discusses the application of deep learning technology in recognizing vehicle black smoke in road traffic monitoring videos. The use of massive surveillance video data imposes higher demands on the real-time performance of vehicle black smo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision Sensing and Pattern Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,227 Views
19 Pages

YOLOv6-ESG: A Lightweight Seafood Detection Method

  • Jing Wang,
  • Qianqian Li,
  • Zhiqiang Fang,
  • Xianglong Zhou and ,
  • Zhiwei Tang,
  • Yanling Han and
  • Zhenling Ma
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

The rapid development of convolutional neural networks has significant implications for automated underwater fishing operations. Among these, object detection algorithms based on underwater robots have become a hot topic in both academic and applied...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,697 Views
21 Pages

11 November 2025

We propose a novel target detection algorithm that addresses the issues of ignoring shape attributes in regression loss and the inability of the high-parameter PAFPN to jointly perceive scale–space–task information. Specifically, we const...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,544 Views
13 Pages

ISAR Imaging Analysis of Complex Aerial Targets Based on Deep Learning

  • Yifeng Wang,
  • Jiaxing Hao,
  • Sen Yang and
  • Hongmin Gao

31 August 2024

Traditional range–instantaneous Doppler (RID) methods for maneuvering target imaging are hindered by issues related to low resolution and inadequate noise suppression. To address this, we propose a novel ISAR imaging method enhanced by deep lea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Signal Processing, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,625 Views
13 Pages

30 October 2023

Wildfire is a pressing global issue that transcends geographic boundaries. Many areas, including China, are trying to cope with the threat of wildfires and manage limited forest resources. Effective forest fire detection is crucial, given its signifi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applications in Forestry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,607 Views
25 Pages

24 January 2024

This paper proposes a YOLO fire detection algorithm based on an attention-enhanced ghost mode, mixed convolutional pyramids, and flame-centre detection (AEGG-FD). Specifically, the enhanced ghost bottleneck is stacked to reduce redundant feature mapp...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Thermal Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
543 Views
12 Pages

Research on Surface Damage Detection Model of Steel-Cord Conveyor Belt Based on YOLOv7

  • Hongyao Wang,
  • Yikun Liu,
  • Longjie Chen,
  • Shibo Zhang and ,
  • Lijun Zhang and
  • Qiaozhi Zhao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 May 2026

Steel-cord conveyor belts are critical equipment in mining operations, and surface damage can easily lead to safety incidents. Therefore, achieving efficient and accurate damage detection is of significant importance. This study investigates a convey...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,050 Views
15 Pages

A Lightweight Recognition Method for Rice Growth Period Based on Improved YOLOv5s

  • Kaixuan Liu,
  • Jie Wang,
  • Kai Zhang,
  • Minhui Chen and ,
  • Haonan Zhao and
  • Juan Liao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 July 2023

The identification of the growth and development period of rice is of great significance to achieve high-yield and high-quality rice. However, the acquisition of rice growth period information mainly relies on manual observation, which has problems s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Sensing and Machine Vision in Precision Agriculture)
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  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,274 Views
15 Pages

An Improved Lightweight Dense Pedestrian Detection Algorithm

  • Mingjing Li,
  • Shuang Chen,
  • Cong Sun,
  • Shu Fang and ,
  • Jinye Han,
  • Xiaoli Wang and
  • Haijiao Yun
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

28 July 2023

Due to the limited memory and computing resources in the real application of target detection, the method is challenging to implement on mobile and embedded devices. In order to achieve the balance between detection accuracy and speed in pedestrian-i...

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  • Open Access
475 Views
24 Pages

21 July 2026

Brain tumor detection in magnetic resonance images (MRI) is difficult because lesions often have weak boundaries, low contrast, and large variations in scale. Here, we present RD-YOLO, a YOLOv10n-based detector that redesigns neck-level feature fusio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
988 Views
16 Pages

Lightweight Detection Method of Wheelset Tread Defects Based on Improved YOLOv7

  • Peng Yang,
  • Fan Gao,
  • Xinwen Yang,
  • Caidong Wang and ,
  • Hongjun Yang and
  • Zhifeng Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 October 2025

Accurate online inspection of train wheelset tread defects is challenging owing to the variety and position uncertainty of defects. This study develops an improved YOLOv7 model capable of inspecting various wheelset tread defects with high accuracy a...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,771 Views
16 Pages

A YOLOv7-Based Method for Ship Detection in Videos of Drones

  • Quanzheng Wang,
  • Jingheng Wang,
  • Xiaoyuan Wang,
  • Luyao Wu and ,
  • Kai Feng and
  • Gang Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

With the rapid development of the shipping industry, the number of ships is continuously increasing, and maritime accidents happen frequently. In recent years, computer vision and drone flight control technology have continuously developed, making dr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Management and Control of Ship Traffic Behaviours)
  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
6,512 Views
13 Pages

15 November 2023

In order to solve the problems of high leakage rate, high false detection rate, low detection success rate and large model volume of small targets in the traditional target detection algorithm for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) aerial images, a lightw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,159 Views
16 Pages

PSG-Yolov5: A Paradigm for Traffic Sign Detection and Recognition Algorithm Based on Deep Learning

  • Jie Hu,
  • Zhanbin Wang,
  • Minjie Chang,
  • Lihao Xie and ,
  • Wencai Xu and
  • Nan Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 October 2022

With the gradual popularization of autonomous driving technology, how to obtain traffic sign information efficiently and accurately is very important for subsequent decision-making and planning tasks. Traffic sign detection and recognition (TSDR) alg...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning and Symmetry)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,460 Views
21 Pages

In order to address the problem that the paint surface of the damaged region of the body is similar to the color texture characteristics of the usual paint surface, which leads to the phenomenon of leakage or misdetection in the detection process, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,258 Views
20 Pages

14 January 2026

Aiming at the core issues of the traditional YOLO11n model in rail surface defect detection—fine-grained feature loss of small defects, insufficient micro-target recognition accuracy, and the mismatch of existing downsampling/fusion methods for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,884 Views
29 Pages

31 December 2025

Instance segmentation of cotton leaves in complex field environments presents challenges including low accuracy, high computational complexity, and costly data annotation. This paper presents GS-BiFPN-YOLO, a lightweight instance segmentation method...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,685 Views
21 Pages

LGVM-YOLOv8n: A Lightweight Apple Instance Segmentation Model for Standard Orchard Environments

  • Wenkai Han,
  • Tao Li,
  • Zhengwei Guo,
  • Tao Wu and ,
  • Wenlei Huang,
  • Qingchun Feng and
  • Liping Chen
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Accurate fruit target identification is crucial for autonomous harvesting robots in complex orchards, where image segmentation using deep learning networks plays a key role. To address the trade-off between segmentation accuracy and inference efficie...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,622 Views
18 Pages

Traffic sign detection is a core function of autonomous driving systems, requiring real-time and accurate target recognition in complex road environments. Existing lightweight detection models struggle to balance accuracy, efficiency, and robustness...

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