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Improved YOLOv8n for Lightweight Ship Detection

  • Zhiguang Gao,
  • Xiaoyan Yu,
  • Xianwei Rong and
  • Wenqi Wang

6 October 2024

Automatic ship detection is a crucial task within the domain of maritime transportation management. With the progressive success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), a number of advanced CNN models have been presented in order to detect ships. Al...

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  • Open Access
591 Views
23 Pages

Small-Target Detection Algorithm Based on Improved YOLOv11n

  • Ke Zeng,
  • Wangsheng Yu,
  • Xianxiang Qin and
  • Siyu Long

22 December 2025

Target detection in UAV aerial photography scenarios faces challenges of small targets and complex backgrounds. Thus, we proposed an improved YOLOv11n small-target detection algorithm. First, a detection head is added to the 160 × 160 resolutio...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,922 Views
18 Pages

MF-YOLOv10: Research on the Improved YOLOv10 Intelligent Identification Algorithm for Goods

  • Quanwei Wang,
  • Xiaoyang Wang,
  • Jiayi Hou,
  • Xuying Liu,
  • Hao Wen and
  • Ziya Ji

8 May 2025

To enhance the accuracy of identifying parts and goods in automated loading and unloading machines, this study proposes a lightweight detection model, MF-YOLOv10, based on intelligent recognition of goods’ shape, color, position, and environmen...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,334 Views
15 Pages

High-Precision and Lightweight Model for Rapid Safety Helmet Detection

  • Xuejun Jia,
  • Xiaoxiong Zhou,
  • Chunyi Su,
  • Zhihan Shi,
  • Xiaodong Lv,
  • Chao Lu and
  • Guangming Zhang

30 October 2024

This paper presents significant improvements in the accuracy and computational efficiency of safety helmet detection within industrial environments through the optimization of the you only look once version 5 small (YOLOv5s) model structure and the e...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,405 Views
20 Pages

18 September 2024

During the developmental stages, eggplants are susceptible to diseases, which can impact crop yields and farmers’ economic returns. Therefore, timely and effective detection of eggplant diseases is crucial. Deep learning-based object detection...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
988 Views
18 Pages

26 March 2025

In response to the diverse target types, variable morphological characteristics, and the prevalence of small sample targets that are prone to missed detections in the bridge surface disease identification, this paper proposes an improved algorithm fo...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,137 Views
16 Pages

Recognition Model for Tea Grading and Counting Based on the Improved YOLOv8n

  • Yuxin Xia,
  • Zejun Wang,
  • Zhiyong Cao,
  • Yaping Chen,
  • Limei Li,
  • Lijiao Chen,
  • Shihao Zhang,
  • Chun Wang,
  • Hongxu Li and
  • Baijuan Wang

10 June 2024

Grading tea leaves efficiently in a natural environment is a crucial technological foundation for the automation of tea-picking robots. In this study, to solve the problems of dense distribution, limited feature-extraction ability, and false detectio...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,230 Views
20 Pages

11 September 2025

To improve the accuracy of water surface debris detection under complex backgrounds and strong reflection conditions, this paper proposes a lightweight improved object detection algorithm based on YOLOv8n. Since shallow features are most sensitive to...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,118 Views
21 Pages

24 July 2024

Factories play a crucial role in economic and social development. However, fire disasters in factories greatly threaten both human lives and properties. Previous studies about fire detection using deep learning mostly focused on wildfire detection an...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,836 Views
19 Pages

Traffic-sign detection and recognition (TSDR) is crucial to avoiding harm to pedestrians, especially children, from intelligent connected vehicles and has become a research hotspot. However, due to motion blurring, partial occlusion, and smaller sign...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,266 Views
15 Pages

CV-YOLOv10-AR-M: Foreign Object Detection in Pu-Erh Tea Based on Five-Fold Cross-Validation

  • Wenxia Yuan,
  • Chunhua Yang,
  • Xinghua Wang,
  • Qiaomei Wang,
  • Lijiao Chen,
  • Man Zou,
  • Zongpei Fan,
  • Miao Zhou and
  • Baijuan Wang

9 May 2025

To address the problem of detecting foreign bodies in Pu-erh tea, this study proposes an intelligent detection method based on an improved YOLOv10 network. By introducing the MPDIoU loss function, the YOLOv10 network is optimized to effectively enhan...

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  • Open Access
2,072 Views
17 Pages

28 August 2024

This paper primarily investigates enhanced object detection techniques for indoor service mobile robots. Robot operating systems (ROS) supply rich sensor data, which boost the models’ ability to generalize. However, the model’s performanc...

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  • Open Access
2,032 Views
24 Pages

Cotton leaf disease detection is essential for accurate identification and timely management of diseases. It plays a crucial role in enhancing cotton yield and quality while promoting the advancement of intelligent agriculture and efficient crop harv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,254 Views
22 Pages

20 September 2024

Deep learning technology has recently become increasingly prevalent in the field of education due to the rapid growth of artificial intelligence. Teachers’ teaching behavior is a crucial component of classroom teaching activities, and identifyi...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,558 Views
28 Pages

Enhanced YOLOv8 with DWR-DRB and SPD-Conv for Mechanical Wear Fault Diagnosis in Aero-Engines

  • Qifan Zhou,
  • Bosong Chai,
  • Chenchao Tang,
  • Yingqing Guo,
  • Kun Wang,
  • Xuan Nie and
  • Yun Ye

26 August 2025

Aero-engines, as complex systems integrating numerous rotating components and accessory equipment, operate under harsh and demanding conditions. Prolonged use often leads to frequent mechanical wear and surface defects on accessory parts, which signi...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,383 Views
16 Pages

2 March 2025

The application of deep learning-based defect detection models significantly reduces the workload of workers and enhances the efficiency of inspections. In this paper, an enhanced YOLOv8 model (DCNv4_C2f + GAM + InnerMPDIoU + YOLOv8, hereafter referr...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,900 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...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,538 Views
19 Pages

An Enhanced Algorithm for Detecting Small Traffic Signs Using YOLOv10

  • Hongrui Liu,
  • Ke Wang,
  • Yudi Wang,
  • Ming Zhang,
  • Qinghua Liu and
  • Wentao Li

27 February 2025

Recognizing traffic signs is crucial for autonomous driving systems, as it significantly impacts their safety and dependability. However, challenges like the diminutive size of objects and intricate background environments limit the effectiveness of...

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  • Open Access
1,607 Views
17 Pages

Research on a Lightweight Textile Defect Detection Algorithm Based on WSF-RTDETR

  • Jun Chen,
  • Shubo Zhang,
  • Yingying Yang,
  • Weiqian Li and
  • Gangfeng Wang

5 September 2025

Textile defect detection technology has become a core component of industrial quality control. With the advancement of artificial intelligence technologies, an increasing number of intelligent recognition methods are being actively researched and dep...

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  • Open Access
35 Citations
6,157 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,113 Views
17 Pages

ITD-YOLO: An Improved YOLO Model for Impurities in Premium Green Tea Detection

  • Zezhong Ding,
  • Yanfang Li,
  • Bin Hu,
  • Zhiwei Chen,
  • Houzhen Jia,
  • Yali Shi,
  • Xingmin Zhang,
  • Xuesong Zhu,
  • Wenjie Feng and
  • Chunwang Dong

28 April 2025

During the harvesting and preparation of tea, it is common for tea to become mixed with some impurities. Eliminating these impurities is essential to improve the quality of famous green tea. At present, this sorting procedure heavily depends on manua...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,077 Views
18 Pages

Detection of Maize Pathogenic Fungal Spores Based on Deep Learning

  • Yijie Ren,
  • Ying Xu,
  • Huilin Tian,
  • Qian Zhang,
  • Mingxiu Yang,
  • Rongsheng Zhu,
  • Dawei Xin,
  • Qingshan Chen,
  • Qiaorong Wei and
  • Shuang Song

Timely detection of pathogen spores is fundamental to ensuring early intervention and reducing the spread of corn diseases, like northern corn leaf blight, corn head smut, and corn rust. Traditional spore detection methods struggle to identify spore-...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,113 Views
17 Pages

28 May 2024

Multi-scale object detection is critically important in complex driving environments within the field of autonomous driving. To enhance the detection accuracy of both small-scale and large-scale targets in complex autonomous driving environments, thi...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,527 Views
21 Pages

Attention-Based Lightweight YOLOv8 Underwater Target Recognition Algorithm

  • Shun Cheng,
  • Zhiqian Wang,
  • Shaojin Liu,
  • Yan Han,
  • Pengtao Sun and
  • Jianrong Li

29 November 2024

Underwater object detection is highly complex and requires a high speed and accuracy. In this paper, an underwater target detection model based on YOLOv8 (SPSM-YOLOv8) is proposed. It solves the problems of high computational complexities, slow detec...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,384 Views
21 Pages

Accurate detection of steel surface defects is crucial for ensuring safety and efficiency in steel production. In this study, we propose a multi-scale edge-enhanced structured composite detection Transformer (MESC-DETR) based on the RT-DETR framework...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,259 Views
20 Pages

SRM-YOLO for Small Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images

  • Bin Yao,
  • Chengkun Zhang,
  • Qingxiang Meng,
  • Xiandong Sun,
  • Xuyang Hu,
  • Lu Wang and
  • Xilai Li

19 June 2025

Small object detection presents significant challenges in computer vision, often affected by factors such as low resolution, dense object distribution, and complex backgrounds, which can lead to false positives or missed detections. In this paper, we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,586 Views
24 Pages

8 August 2025

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing has become an important tool for high-resolution tree species identification in orchards and forests. However, irregular spatial distribution, overlapping canopies, and small crown sizes still limit detect...

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  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,869 Views
31 Pages

A Small Object Detection Method for Drone-Captured Images Based on Improved YOLOv7

  • Dewei Zhao,
  • Faming Shao,
  • Qiang Liu,
  • Li Yang,
  • Heng Zhang and
  • Zihan Zhang

12 March 2024

Due to the broad usage and widespread popularity of drones, the demand for a more accurate object detection algorithm for images captured by drone platforms has become increasingly urgent. This article addresses this issue by first analyzing the uniq...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,387 Views
26 Pages

Accurate and real-time ship detection is crucial for intelligent waterborne transportation systems. However, detecting ships across various scales remains challenging due to category diversity, shape similarity, and complex environmental interference...

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  • Open Access
123 Views
17 Pages

An Improved Geospatial Object Detection Framework for Complex Urban and Environmental Remote Sensing Scenes

  • Yueying Zhu,
  • Aidong Chen,
  • Xiang Li,
  • Yu Pan,
  • Yanwei Yuan,
  • Ning Yang,
  • Wenwen Chen,
  • Jiawang Huang,
  • Jun Cai and
  • Hui Fu

27 January 2026

The development of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI), combining deep learning and remote sensing imagery, is of great interest for automated spatial inference and decision-making support. In this paper, a GeoAI-based efficient object detecti...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,043 Views
18 Pages

RVDR-YOLOv8: A Weed Target Detection Model Based on Improved YOLOv8

  • Yuanming Ding,
  • Chen Jiang,
  • Lin Song,
  • Fei Liu and
  • Yunrui Tao

Currently, weed control robots that can accurately identify weeds and carry out removal work are gradually replacing traditional chemical weed control techniques. However, the computational and storage resources of the core processing equipment of we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,111 Views
22 Pages

3 May 2025

Global warming has driven a marked increase in forest fire occurrences, underscoring the critical need for timely and accurate detection to mitigate fire-related losses. Existing forest fire detection algorithms face limitations in capturing flame an...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,569 Views
27 Pages

Tea Disease Detection Method Based on Improved YOLOv8 in Complex Background

  • Junchen Ai,
  • Yadong Li,
  • Shengxiang Gao,
  • Rongsheng Hu and
  • Wengang Che

2 July 2025

Tea disease detection is of great significance to the tea industry. In order to solve the problems such as mutual occlusion of leaves, light disturbance, and small lesion area under complex background, YOLO-SSM, a tea disease detection model, was pro...

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  • Open Access
927 Views
20 Pages

A Sensor Based Waste Rock Detection Method in Copper Mining Under Low Light Environment

  • Jianing Ding,
  • Fuming Qu,
  • Weihua Zhou,
  • Jiajun Xu,
  • Lingyu Zhao and
  • Yaming Ji

25 September 2025

During production, copper mining could generate substantial waste rock that impacts land use and the environment. Advances in deep learning have enabled efficient, cost-effective intelligent sorting, where vision sensor performance critically determi...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,971 Views
21 Pages

3 April 2025

Cigarette detection is a crucial component of public safety management. However, detecting such small objects poses significant challenges due to their size and limited feature points. To enhance the accuracy of small target detection, we propose a n...

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  • Open Access
1,279 Views
16 Pages

A Dynamic Interference Detection Method of Underwater Scenes Based on Deep Learning and Attention Mechanism

  • Shuo Shang,
  • Jianrong Cao,
  • Yuanchang Wang,
  • Ming Wang,
  • Qianchuan Zhao,
  • Yuanyuan Song and
  • He Gao

14 November 2024

Improving the three-dimensional reconstruction of underwater scenes is a challenging and hot topic in the field of underwater robot vision system research. High dynamic interference underwater has always been one of the key issues affecting the 3D re...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,885 Views
19 Pages

An Efficient and Accurate Surface Defect Detection Method for Wood Based on Improved YOLOv8

  • Rijun Wang,
  • Fulong Liang,
  • Bo Wang,
  • Guanghao Zhang,
  • Yesheng Chen and
  • Xiangwei Mou

6 July 2024

Accurate detection of wood surface defects plays a pivotal role in enhancing wood grade sorting precision, maintaining high standards in wood processing quality, and safeguarding forest resources. This paper introduces an efficient and precise approa...

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  • Open Access
1,043 Views
13 Pages

3 March 2025

Brevipalpus spp. are widespread pests on wine grapes in northwest China and have generated a major threat to the local wine grape industry in recent years. We advanced the YOLOv8n model (object detection algorithm), termed SEM-YOLOv8n, to predict the...

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  • Open Access
1,537 Views
21 Pages

MEP-YOLOv5s: Small-Target Detection Model for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Captured Images

  • Shengbang Zhou,
  • Song Zhang,
  • Chuanqi Li,
  • Shutian Liu and
  • Dong Chen

30 May 2025

Due to complex backgrounds, significant scale variations of targets, and dense distributions of small objects in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) aerial images, traditional object detection algorithms face challenges in adapting to such scenarios. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,643 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...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,661 Views
22 Pages

RA-YOLOv8: An Improved YOLOv8 Seal Text Detection Method

  • Han Sun,
  • Chaohong Tan,
  • Si Pang,
  • Hancheng Wang and
  • Baohua Huang

To detect text from electronic seals that have significant background interference, blurring, text overlapping, and curving, an improved YOLOv8 model named RA-YOLOv8 was developed. The model is primarily based on YOLOv8, with optimized structures in...

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  • Open Access
1,416 Views
28 Pages

FF-YOLO: An Improved YOLO11-Based Fatigue Detection Algorithm for Air Traffic Controllers

  • Shijie Tan,
  • Weijun Pan,
  • Leilei Deng,
  • Qinghai Zuo and
  • Yao Zheng

3 July 2025

Real-time detection of fatigue states in air traffic controllers (ATCOs) is crucial for ensuring air traffic safety. Existing methods exhibit limitations such as poor real-time performance, intrusiveness, and susceptibility to lighting and occlusion....

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
662 Views
17 Pages

Development of Resonant De Ice Device Based on Visual Detection of Line Ice Coverage

  • Yuan Ma,
  • Xingping He,
  • Peng Wu,
  • Lei Chen,
  • Yikai Wang,
  • Ke Wang,
  • Chengmeng Liu and
  • Jing Fang

15 August 2025

Aiming at the ice coating problem on medium-voltage overhead lines, this paper proposes a resonance de-icing device based on an improved YOLOv7 algorithm to achieve efficient and intelligent ice detection and removal. First, by introducing the SimAM...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,995 Views
23 Pages

25 March 2025

To tackle the high computational demands and accuracy limitations in UAV-based infrared object detection, this study proposes YOLO-SMUG, a lightweight detection algorithm optimized for small object identification. The model incorporates an enhanced b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,107 Views
27 Pages

MRA-YOLOv8: A Network Enhancing Feature Extraction Ability for Photovoltaic Cell Defects

  • Nannan Wang,
  • Siqi Huang,
  • Xiangpeng Liu,
  • Zhining Wang,
  • Yi Liu and
  • Zhe Gao

2 March 2025

To address the challenges posed by complex backgrounds and the low occurrence in photovoltaic cell images captured by industrial sensors, we propose a novel defect detection method: MRA-YOLOv8. First, a multi-branch coordinate attention network (MBCA...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,703 Views
17 Pages

15 November 2024

Land-based sources of marine outfalls are a major source of marine pollution. The monitoring of land-based sources of marine outfalls is an important means for marine environmental protection and governance. Traditional on-site manual monitoring meth...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,224 Views
25 Pages

24 July 2025

Strawberry planting requires different amounts of soil water-holding capacity and fertilizer at different growth stages. Determining the stages of strawberry growth has important guiding significance for irrigation, fertilization, and picking. Quick...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,303 Views
17 Pages

Intelligent pest detection algorithms are capable of effectively detecting and recognizing agricultural pests, providing important recommendations for field pest control. However, existing recognition models have shortcomings such as poor accuracy or...

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  • Open Access
2,264 Views
19 Pages

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a high-resolution nondestructive technique for detecting subsurface defects, yet its image interpretation suffers from strong subjectivity, low efficiency, and high false-alarm rates. To establish a customized underg...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
784 Views
19 Pages

YOLO-SRSA: An Improved YOLOv7 Network for the Abnormal Detection of Power Equipment

  • Wan Zou,
  • Yiping Jiang,
  • Wenlong Liao,
  • Songhai Fan,
  • Yueping Yang,
  • Jin Hou and
  • Hao Tang

Power equipment anomaly detection is essential for ensuring the stable operation of power systems. Existing models have high false and missed detection rates in complex weather and multi-scale equipment scenarios. This paper proposes a YOLO-SRSA-base...

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