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12 June 2026

Aiming at the problems of glare interference, local overexposure and detail loss caused by artificial light sources such as vehicle lamps and street lamps in nighttime road scenes, as well as the challenges of existing glare suppression models with l...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
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  • 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)
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  • Open Access
2,202 Views
12 Pages

9 December 2024

Ghost imaging is a technique for indirectly reconstructing images by utilizing the second-order or higher-order correlation properties of the light field, which exhibits a robust ability to resist interference. On the premise of ensuring the quality...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,191 Views
19 Pages

19 January 2021

Current research on the reconstruction of hyperspectral images from RGB images using deep learning mainly focuses on learning complex mappings through deeper and wider convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, the reconstruction accuracy of the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Spectral Imaging)
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  • Open Access
139 Citations
15,539 Views
15 Pages

Photovoltaic (PV) panel surface-defect detection technology is crucial for the PV industry to perform smart maintenance. Using computer vision technology to detect PV panel surface defects can ensure better accuracy while reducing the workload of tra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning Application)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,130 Views
14 Pages

Hyperspectral imaging has emerged as a novel imaging modality in the medical field, offering the ability to acquire images of biological tissues while simultaneously providing biochemical insights for in-depth tissue analysis. This approach facilitat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning Technology for Biomedical Signals and Images Applications)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,893 Views
14 Pages

Application of Minnan Folk Light and Shadow Animation in Built Environment in Object Detection Algorithm

  • Sichao Wu,
  • Xiaoyu Huang,
  • Yiqi Xiong,
  • Shengzhen Wu and ,
  • Enlong Li and
  • Chen Pan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

To resolve the problems of deep convolutional neural network models with many parameters and high memory resource consumption, a lightweight network-based algorithm for building detection of Minnan folk light synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
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  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,933 Views
17 Pages

14 March 2019

The ghost phenomenon in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging is primarily caused by azimuth or range ambiguities, which cause difficulties in SAR target detection application. To mitigate this influence, we propose a ship target detection method in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,489 Views
28 Pages

4 February 2026

Accurate and timely diagnosis of rice leaf diseases is crucial for smart agriculture leveraging vision sensors. However, existing lightweight convolutional neural networks (CNNs) often struggle in complex field environments, where small lesions, clut...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensing Technology and Computer Vision for Precision Agriculture and Smart Farming)
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  • Open Access
573 Views
17 Pages

A Lightweight Algal Bloom Detection Algorithm for Water Surfaces Based on Improved YOLOv26

  • Haoran Wang,
  • Zifei Ma,
  • Mi Zhou,
  • Yunfeng Pan and ,
  • Jing Wang and
  • Yanji Yao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 June 2026

Monitoring water surface algal blooms from surveillance perspectives faces challenges such as small objects, low texture contrasts, dynamic background interferences, and limited labeled datasets. In this study, we propose GECA-YOLOv26, a lightweight...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Computer Vision and Digital Image Processing)
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  • Open Access
537 Views
26 Pages

A Lightweight Model for PCB Surface Defect Detection

  • Pei-Chen Yang,
  • Wei-Tsong Lee and
  • Hsin-Wen Wei

Traditional deep learning models for printed circuit board (PCB) surface defect detection achieve high accuracy but incur heavy computational costs, making deployment on resource-constrained edge devices in industrial environments challenging. This s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision and Image Processing in Machine Learning)
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,810 Views
21 Pages

STE-YOLO: A Surface Defect Detection Algorithm for Steel Strips

  • Dongming Li,
  • Erfu Wang,
  • Zhiyi Li,
  • Yingying Yin and ,
  • Lijuan Zhang and
  • Chunxi Zhao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

To accurately detect defects, we propose an enhanced model based on YOLOv8, named STE-YOLO. To address the aforementioned challenges, this paper adopts YOLOv8 as the improved model. The structure of this paper is as follows: We enhance the model&rsqu...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,465 Views
21 Pages

21 July 2023

During the operation of the belt conveyor, foreign objects such as large gangue and anchor rods may be mixed into the conveyor belt, resulting in tears and fractures, which affect transportation efficiency and production safety. In this paper, we pro...

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  • Open Access
979 Views
34 Pages

3 December 2025

The die bonding process significantly impacts the yield and quality of IC packaging, and its quality detection is also a critical image sensing technology. With the advancement of machine automation and increased operating speeds, the misclassificati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Enhanced Industrial Sensors: From Adaptive Detection to Smart Manufacturing)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,850 Views
26 Pages

20 November 2024

The die bonding process is one of the most critical steps in the front-end semiconductor packaging process, as it significantly affects the yield of the entire IC packaging process. This research aims to find an efficient, intelligent vision detectio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Methods for Object Detection and Segmentation)
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  • Open Access
1,301 Views
14 Pages

GhostBlock-Augmented Lightweight Gaze Tracking via Depthwise Separable Convolution

  • Jing-Ming Guo,
  • Yu-Sung Cheng,
  • Yi-Chong Zeng and
  • Zong-Yan Yang

This paper proposes a lightweight gaze-tracking architecture named GhostBlock-Augmented Look to Coordinate Space (L2CS), which integrates GhostNet-based modules and depthwise separable convolution to achieve a better trade-off between model accuracy...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,393 Views
24 Pages

LGNet: A Lightweight Ghost-Enhanced Network for Efficient SAR Ship Detection

  • Jiawei Chen,
  • Junyu Huang,
  • Yuna Tan,
  • Zhifeng Wu and
  • Renbo Luo

23 November 2025

Current SAR ship detection methods face a critical trade-off between accuracy and computational efficiency, severely limiting their deployment on resource-constrained edge devices that are essential for distributed maritime surveillance systems. This...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ship Imaging, Detection and Recognition for High-Resolution SAR)
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  • Open Access
618 Views
21 Pages

A High-Performance Model for Landslide Geological Hazard Detection, CDCS-YOLO

  • Zijie Ye,
  • Fuerhaiti Ainiwaer,
  • Dongchen Han,
  • Xinjun Song and ,
  • Fulin Qu,
  • Yuxi Wang,
  • Xiaomin Dai and
  • Shengqiang Ma
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

12 May 2026

Although deep learning has been successfully used to detect landslide hazards in recent years, existing methods still face challenges due to the variety of landslide characteristics in different terrains and topographies. This study proposes a new fr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Applied Numerical Methods and Artificial Intelligence for Underground Engineering)
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  • Open Access
60 Citations
4,033 Views
13 Pages

1 June 2023

Insulator defect detection is of great significance to compromise the stability of the power transmission line. The state-of-the-art object detection network, YOLOv5, has been widely used in insulator and defect detection. However, the YOLOv5 network...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
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  • Open Access
132 Citations
14,066 Views
24 Pages

An Improved Wildfire Smoke Detection Based on YOLOv8 and UAV Images

  • Saydirasulov Norkobil Saydirasulovich,
  • Mukhriddin Mukhiddinov,
  • Oybek Djuraev,
  • Akmalbek Abdusalomov and
  • Young-Im Cho

10 October 2023

Forest fires rank among the costliest and deadliest natural disasters globally. Identifying the smoke generated by forest fires is pivotal in facilitating the prompt suppression of developing fires. Nevertheless, succeeding techniques for detecting f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Object Recognition with Vision Sensors Based on Machine Learning and Deep Learning)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,046 Views
27 Pages

GM-CBAM-ResNet: A Lightweight Deep Learning Network for Diagnosis of COVID-19

  • Junjiang Zhu,
  • Yihui Zhang,
  • Cheng Ma,
  • Jiaming Wu and ,
  • Xuchen Wang and
  • Dongdong Kong
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

COVID-19 can cause acute infectious diseases of the respiratory system, and may probably lead to heart damage, which will seriously threaten human health. Electrocardiograms (ECGs) have the advantages of being low cost, non-invasive, and radiation fr...

(This article belongs to the Topic Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Medical Imaging)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,027 Views
17 Pages

A Efficient and Accurate UAV Detection Method Based on YOLOv5s

  • Yunsong Feng,
  • Tong Wang,
  • Qiangfu Jiang,
  • Chi Zhang and ,
  • Shaohang Sun and
  • Wangjiahe Qian
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 July 2024

Due to the limited computational resources of portable devices, target detection models for drone detection face challenges in real-time deployment. To enhance the detection efficiency of low, slow, and small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), this stu...

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  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,126 Views
16 Pages

Lightweight Model for Pavement Defect Detection Based on Improved YOLOv7

  • Peile Huang,
  • Shenghuai Wang,
  • Jianyu Chen,
  • Weijie Li and
  • Xing Peng

11 August 2023

Existing pavement defect detection models face challenges in balancing detection accuracy and speed while being constrained by large parameter sizes, hindering deployment on edge terminal devices with limited computing resources. To address these iss...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Sensing for Image Processing and Recognition)
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  • Open Access
66 Citations
5,560 Views
23 Pages

LMDFS: A Lightweight Model for Detecting Forest Fire Smoke in UAV Images Based on YOLOv7

  • Gong Chen,
  • Renxi Cheng,
  • Xufeng Lin,
  • Wanguo Jiao and ,
  • Di Bai and
  • Haifeng Lin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 July 2023

Forest fires pose significant hazards to ecological environments and economic society. The detection of forest fire smoke can provide crucial information for the suppression of early fires. Previous detection models based on deep learning have been l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision and Image Processing in Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
483 Views
28 Pages

Cerebrovascular diseases, including stroke and intracranial aneurysm, affect millions worldwide and remain a leading cause of mortality and disability. Time-of-Flight Magnetic Resonance Angiography (TOF-MRA) enables non-invasive visualization of intr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in "Computer Science & Engineering", 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,313 Views
21 Pages

An Enhanced YOLOv8n-Based Approach for Pig Behavior Recognition

  • Jianjun Guo,
  • Yudian Xu,
  • Lijun Lin,
  • Beibei Zhang and ,
  • Piao Zhou,
  • Shangwen Luo,
  • Yuhan Zhuo,
  • Jingyu Ji,
  • Zhijie Luo and
  • Guangming Cheng
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

Pig behavior statistics can reflect their health status. Conventional approaches depend on manual observation to derive behavioral information from video recordings, a process that demands substantial time and human effort. To overcome these limitati...

(This article belongs to the Section AI-Driven Innovations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
313 Views
18 Pages

6 October 2026

Maize faces a wide variety of pests and diseases, and its growing environment is complex, which makes detecting these problems quite challenging. Existing object detection algorithms usually require a lot of computing power, but edge computing device...

(This article belongs to the Section Pest and Disease Management)
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  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,470 Views
18 Pages

Detection of Litchi Leaf Diseases and Insect Pests Based on Improved FCOS

  • Jiaxing Xie,
  • Xiaowei Zhang,
  • Zeqian Liu,
  • Fei Liao and ,
  • Weixing Wang and
  • Jun Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Litchi leaf diseases and pests can lead to issues such as a decreased Litchi yield, reduced fruit quality, and decreased farmer income. In this study, we aimed to explore a real-time and accurate method for identifying Litchi leaf diseases and pests....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Precision Operation Technology and Intelligent Equipment in Farmland)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,167 Views
14 Pages

Chip contour detection aims to detect damaged chips in chip slots during IC packaging and testing using vision facilities. However, the operation speed of the new chip transportation machine is too fast, and the current chip contour detection models,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Methods for Object Detection and Segmentation)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,008 Views
24 Pages

2 March 2025

For reducing the parameters and computational complexity of networks while improving the classification accuracy of hyperspectral remote sensing images (HRSIs), a dynamic split pointwise convolution (DSPC) strategy is presented, and a lightweight con...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
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  • Open Access

9 November 2026

Small-vehicle detection in aerial imagery requires fine spatial detail within limited computational budgets. We propose YOLOv11n-Ghost-P2, which combines Ghost-based feature compression with a high-resolution P2 fusion branch. Relative to standard YO...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,317 Views
37 Pages

A vision-based autonomous driving system can usually fuse information about object detection and steering angle prediction for safe self-driving through real-time recognition of the environment around the car. If an autonomous driving system cannot r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Detection, Recognition and Segmentation in Images and Videos)
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  • Open Access
671 Views
37 Pages

Cotton Leaf Spot Detection Based on an Improved YOLOv11n Model

  • Yaxin Xie,
  • Mingyu Zhang,
  • Yonghua Han,
  • Le Dai and ,
  • Haifeng Fu and
  • Lu Xu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

In cotton disease detection, the complex farmland environment and the varying scales of disease spots, especially the presence of small-target disease spots, limit the detection accuracy of lightweight models. To address this issue, an improved YOLOv...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition)
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  • Open Access
738 Views
31 Pages

High-Throughput Citrus Detection via Citrus-SGYOLOv2: A Symmetric Ghost-Based Architecture with High-Resolution Feature Fusion

  • Jinfeng Li,
  • Yutian Miao,
  • Wenxuan Guo,
  • Yuxiang Li and ,
  • Qian Xu,
  • Yue Xiang,
  • Yanyu Chen,
  • Xianyao Wang,
  • Yunsen Liang and
  • Jun Li
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

28 April 2026

Accurate high-throughput fruit detection is the core prerequisite for precision citrus management. Existing models face a critical trade-off between accuracy for small fruits and computational efficiency, restricting large-scale industry transformati...

(This article belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,074 Views
18 Pages

16 October 2023

Our previous work introduced the LW-YOLOv4-tiny and the LW-ResNet18 models by replacing traditional convolution with the Ghost Conv to achieve rapid object detection and steering angle prediction, respectively. However, the entire object detection an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Methods for Object Detection and Segmentation)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,440 Views
11 Pages

4 March 2023

Despite the continuous development of convolutional neural networks, it remains a challenge to achieve performance improvement with fewer parameters and floating point operations (FLOPs) as a light-weight model. In particular, excessive expressive po...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Signal Processing)
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  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,244 Views
20 Pages

Application of Improved YOLOv5 in Aerial Photographing Infrared Vehicle Detection

  • Youchen Fan,
  • Qianlong Qiu,
  • Shunhu Hou,
  • Yuhai Li and ,
  • Jiaxuan Xie,
  • Mingyu Qin and
  • Feihuang Chu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Aiming to solve the problems of false detection, missed detection, and insufficient detection ability of infrared vehicle images, an infrared vehicle target detection algorithm based on the improved YOLOv5 is proposed. The article analyzes the image...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Machine Learning Applications in Big Data Analytics)
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  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,246 Views
15 Pages

7 September 2024

In response to the challenges posed by complex background textures and limited hardware resources in fabric defect detection, this study proposes a lightweight fabric defect detection algorithm based on an improved GSL-YOLOv8n model. Firstly, to redu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,075 Views
18 Pages

25 March 2025

In order to solve the problem of high computational resource consumption in fabric anomaly detection, we propose a lightweight network, GH-YOLOx, which integrates ghost convolutions and hierarchical GHNetV2 backbone together to capture both local and...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
663 Views
27 Pages

1 June 2026

Accurate and efficient oriented detection is critical for remote sensing images, yet remains challenging due to multi-scale distribution, arbitrary orientations, and stringent computational constraints of onboard platforms. To mitigate these challeng...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Target Recognition and Detection: Theory and Applications (Second Edition))
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,751 Views
13 Pages

20 December 2024

Surface defect detection based on machine vision and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is an important and necessary process that enables rubber ring manufacturers to improve production quality and efficiency. However, such automatic detection alw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
8,404 Views
17 Pages

Lightweight Network for Corn Leaf Disease Identification Based on Improved YOLO v8s

  • Rujia Li,
  • Yadong Li,
  • Weibo Qin,
  • Arzlan Abbas and ,
  • Shuang Li,
  • Rongbiao Ji,
  • Yehui Wu,
  • Yiting He and
  • Jianping Yang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

This research tackles the intricate challenges of detecting densely distributed maize leaf diseases and the constraints inherent in YOLO-based detection algorithms. It introduces the GhostNet_Triplet_YOLOv8s algorithm, enhancing YOLO v8s by integrati...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
631 Views
26 Pages

9 July 2026

Balancing detection accuracy with model lightweightness remains a key challenge in remote sensing object detection. Although convolutional neural networks have improved performance, they typically require large-scale datasets, making few-shot detecti...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,089 Views
15 Pages

G-RRDB: An Effective THz Image-Denoising Model for Moldy Wheat

  • Yuying Jiang,
  • Xinyu Chen,
  • Hongyi Ge,
  • Mengdie Jiang and
  • Xixi Wen

25 July 2023

In order to solve the problem of large image noise and unremarkable features caused by factors such as fluctuations in the power of a light source during the terahertz image acquisition of wheat, this paper proposes a THz image-denoising model called...

(This article belongs to the Section Grain)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,640 Views
16 Pages

A Lightweight Method for Detecting Sewer Defects Based on Improved YOLOv5

  • Xing Zhang,
  • Jiawei Zhang,
  • Lei Tian,
  • Xiang Liu and
  • Shuohong Wang

5 August 2023

In response to the issues of the existing sewer defect detection models, which are not applicable to small computing platforms due to their complex structure and large computational volume, as well as the low detection accuracy, a lightweight detecti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Damage Monitoring and Defect Identification Based on Deep/Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
543 Views
21 Pages

Deploying accurate face recognition models on resource-constrained devices remains a significant challenge. Ghost modules mitigate feature-map redundancy by synthesizing half of each feature map through inexpensive linear transformations and form the...

(This article belongs to the Section AI-Driven Innovations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,921 Views
23 Pages

GS-YOLO: A Lightweight Identification Model for Precision Parts

  • Haojie Zhu,
  • Lei Dong,
  • Hanpeng Ren,
  • Hongchao Zhuang and
  • Hu Li

10 February 2025

With the development of aerospace technology, the variety and complexity of spacecraft components have increased. Traditional manual and machine learning-based detection methods struggle to accurately and quickly identify these parts. Deep learning-b...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
144 Views
21 Pages

22 October 2026

Eggplant is an important vegetable crop, and accurate identification of fruit diseases is critical for ensuring yield and quality. However, field-captured eggplant images may contain small disease lesions, foliage occlusion, and illumination variatio...

(This article belongs to the Section Smart Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,918 Views
28 Pages

In the previous work, we proposed LWGSE-YOLOv4-tiny and LWDSG-ResNet18, leveraging depthwise separable and Ghost Convolutions for fast self-driving control while achieving a detection speed of 24.9 FPS. However, the system fell short of Level 4 auton...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
991 Views
22 Pages

16 December 2025

To address the pressing need for accurate and efficient detection of corn diseases, we propose a novel, lightweight object detection framework, CBS-YOLOv8 (C2f-BiFPN-SCConv YOLOv8), which builds upon the YOLOv8 architecture to enhance performance for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Mathematics and Applications)

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