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  • Open Access
15 Citations
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An Improved Lightweight Dense Pedestrian Detection Algorithm

  • Mingjing Li,
  • Shuang Chen,
  • Cong Sun,
  • Shu Fang,
  • Jinye Han,
  • Xiaoli Wang and
  • Haijiao Yun

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,091 Views
20 Pages

Detection of River Floating Garbage Based on Improved YOLOv5

  • Xingshuai Yang,
  • Jingyi Zhao,
  • Li Zhao,
  • Haiyang Zhang,
  • Li Li,
  • Zhanlin Ji and
  • Ivan Ganchev

20 November 2022

The random dumping of garbage in rivers has led to the continuous deterioration of water quality and affected people’s living environment. The accuracy of detection of garbage floating in rivers is greatly affected by factors such as floating s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,555 Views
18 Pages

Lane Line Type Recognition Based on Improved YOLOv5

  • Boyu Liu,
  • Hao Wang,
  • Yongqiang Wang,
  • Congling Zhou and
  • Lei Cai

21 September 2023

The recognition of lane line type plays an important role in the perception of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). In actual vehicle driving on roads, there are a variety of lane line type and complex road conditions which present significant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,302 Views
20 Pages

Automatic and Efficient Detection of Loess Landslides Based on Deep Learning

  • Qingyun Ji,
  • Yuan Liang,
  • Fanglin Xie,
  • Zhengbo Yu and
  • Yanli Wang

1 February 2024

Frequent landslide disasters on the Loess Plateau in northwestern China have had a serious impact on the lives and production of the people in the region due to the fragile ecological environment and severe soil erosion. The effective monitoring and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
7,508 Views
27 Pages

3 January 2023

Aerial remote sensing image object detection, based on deep learning, is of great significance in geological resource exploration, urban traffic management, and military strategic information. To improve intractable problems in aerial remote sensing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
4,681 Views
15 Pages

12 December 2022

Intense, large-scale forest fires are damaging and very challenging to control. Locations, where various types of fire behavior occur, vary depending on environmental factors. According to the burning site of forest fires and the degree of damage, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,496 Views
22 Pages

11 March 2025

The accurate detection of coal gangue is an important prerequisite for the intelligent sorting of coal gangue. Aiming at existing coal gangue detection methods, which have problems such as low detection accuracy and complex model structure, a multi-s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,253 Views
17 Pages

High-Performance Lightweight Fall Detection with an Improved YOLOv5s Algorithm

  • Yuanpeng Wang,
  • Zhaozhan Chi,
  • Meng Liu,
  • Guangxian Li and
  • Songlin Ding

10 August 2023

The aging population has drastically increased in the past two decades, stimulating the development of devices for healthcare and medical purposes. As one of the leading potential risks, the injuries caused by accidental falls at home are hazardous t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,607 Views
18 Pages

SAR Image Aircraft Target Recognition Based on Improved YOLOv5

  • Xing Wang,
  • Wen Hong,
  • Yunqing Liu,
  • Dongmei Hu and
  • Ping Xin

17 May 2023

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is an active ground-surveillance radar system, which can observe targets regardless of time and weather. Passenger aircrafts are important targets for SAR, as it is of great importance for accurately recognizing the typ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
4,792 Views
19 Pages

5 September 2023

As a vital part of autonomous driving, vehicle detection, especially for outdoor small target vehicles, has attracted great attention from researchers during recent years. To ameliorate the difficulty in accurately identifying outdoor small vehicle t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,816 Views
28 Pages

13 December 2024

The high salinity, humidity, and oxygen-rich environments of coastal marine areas pose serious corrosion risks to metal structures, particularly in equipment such as ships, offshore platforms, and port facilities. With the development of artificial i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
111 Citations
7,235 Views
20 Pages

LMSD-YOLO: A Lightweight YOLO Algorithm for Multi-Scale SAR Ship Detection

  • Yue Guo,
  • Shiqi Chen,
  • Ronghui Zhan,
  • Wei Wang and
  • Jun Zhang

26 September 2022

At present, deep learning has been widely used in SAR ship target detection, but the accurate and real-time detection of multi-scale targets still faces tough challenges. CNN-based SAR ship detectors are challenged to meet real-time requirements beca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
4,138 Views
14 Pages

Improved Algorithm for Insulator and Its Defect Detection Based on YOLOX

  • Gujing Han,
  • Tao Li,
  • Qiang Li,
  • Feng Zhao,
  • Min Zhang,
  • Ruijie Wang,
  • Qiwei Yuan,
  • Kaipei Liu and
  • Liang Qin

18 August 2022

Aerial insulator defect images have some features. For instance, the complex background and small target of defects would make it difficult to detect insulator defects quickly and accurately. To solve the problem of low accuracy of insulator defect d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,872 Views
26 Pages

25 July 2024

With the continuous growth of electricity demand, the safety and stability of transmission lines have become increasingly important. To ensure the reliability of power supply, it is essential to promptly detect and address foreign object intrusions o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,630 Views
17 Pages

29 July 2023

To meet the demands of the food industry for automatic sorting of block-shaped foods using DELTA robots, a machine vision detection method capable of quickly identifying such foods needs to be studied. This paper proposes a lightweight model that inc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,705 Views
16 Pages

FE-YOLO: An Efficient Deep Learning Model Based on Feature-Enhanced YOLOv7 for Microalgae Identification and Detection

  • Gege Ding,
  • Yuhang Shi,
  • Zhenquan Liu,
  • Yanjuan Wang,
  • Zhixuan Yao,
  • Dan Zhou,
  • Xuexiu Zhu and
  • Yiqin Li

The identification and detection of microalgae are essential for the development and utilization of microalgae resources. Traditional methods for microalgae identification and detection have many limitations. Herein, a Feature-Enhanced YOLOv7 (FE-YOL...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,944 Views
18 Pages

Real-Time Detection of an Undercarriage Based on Receptive Field Blocks and Coordinate Attention

  • Ruizhen Gao,
  • Ya’nan Ma,
  • Ziyue Zhao,
  • Baihua Li and
  • Jingjun Zhang

16 December 2023

Currently, aeroplane images captured by camera sensors are characterized by their small size and intricate backgrounds, posing a challenge for existing deep learning algorithms in effectively detecting small targets. This paper incorporates the RFBNe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
107 Citations
9,460 Views
18 Pages

The efficient identification of rice pests and diseases is crucial for preventing crop damage. To address the limitations of traditional manual detection methods and machine learning-based approaches, a new rice pest and disease recognition model bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,547 Views
17 Pages

Crop Node Detection and Internode Length Estimation Using an Improved YOLOv5 Model

  • Jinnan Hu,
  • Guo Li,
  • Haolan Mo,
  • Yibo Lv,
  • Tingting Qian,
  • Ming Chen and
  • Shenglian Lu

16 February 2023

The extraction and analysis of plant phenotypic characteristics are critical issues for many precision agriculture applications. An improved YOLOv5 model was proposed in this study for accurate node detection and internode length estimation of crops...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,942 Views
22 Pages

RepVGG-YOLOv7: A Modified YOLOv7 for Fire Smoke Detection

  • Xin Chen,
  • Yipeng Xue,
  • Qingshan Hou,
  • Yan Fu and
  • Yaolin Zhu

7 October 2023

To further improve the detection of smoke and small target smoke in complex backgrounds, a novel smoke detection model called RepVGG-YOLOv7 is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the ECA attention mechanism and SIoU loss function are applied to the YOLO...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,750 Views
14 Pages

26 April 2024

Fastener screws are critical components of rail fasteners. For the fastener screw maintenance robot, an image-based fast fastener screw detection method is urgently needed. In this paper, we propose a light-weight model named FSS-YOLO based on YOLOv5...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,912 Views
22 Pages

27 July 2023

To address the issues of low detection accuracy, slow detection speed, high missed detection rate, and high false detection rate in the detection of surface defects on pre-impregnated composite materials during the automated tape laying and winding p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,334 Views
14 Pages

22 November 2023

Aiming at the problem of insufficient feature extraction, low precision, and recall in sea surface ship detection, a YOLOv5 algorithm based on lightweight convolution and attention mechanism is proposed. We combine the receptive field enhancement mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,073 Views
17 Pages

28 February 2023

X-ray contraband detection plays an important role in the field of public safety. To solve the multi-scale and obscuration problem in X-ray contraband detection, we propose a material-aware path aggregation network to detect and classify contraband i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
78 Citations
8,694 Views
24 Pages

YOLO-MBBi: PCB Surface Defect Detection Method Based on Enhanced YOLOv5

  • Bowei Du,
  • Fang Wan,
  • Guangbo Lei,
  • Li Xu,
  • Chengzhi Xu and
  • Ying Xiong

Printed circuit boards (PCBs) are extensively used to assemble electronic equipment. Currently, PCBs are an integral part of almost all electronic products. However, various surface defects can still occur during mass production. An enhanced YOLOv5s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
159 Views
18 Pages

8 January 2026

A method for classifying floating garbage in rivers using a modified YOLOv11 algorithm is proposed to solve the problem of poor recognition of river floating objects using the conventional object detection algorithms. This approach first integrates a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,133 Views
18 Pages

Target Detection for Coloring and Ripening Potted Dwarf Apple Fruits Based on Improved YOLOv7-RSES

  • Haoran Ma,
  • Yanwen Li,
  • Xiaoying Zhang,
  • Yaoyu Li,
  • Zhenqi Li,
  • Runqing Zhang,
  • Qian Zhao and
  • Renjie Hao

24 May 2024

Dwarf apple is one of the most important forms of garden economy, which has become a new engine for rural revitalization. The effective detection of coloring and ripening apples in complex environments is important for the sustainable development of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
665 Views
26 Pages

31 October 2025

Ship instance segmentation in remote sensing images is essential for maritime applications such as intelligent surveillance and port management. However, this task remains challenging due to dense target distributions, large variations in ship scales...

  • Article
  • Open Access
784 Views
28 Pages

21 November 2025

With the exponential growth of road transportation infrastructure, the need for pavement maintenance has increased significantly. Surface cracking represents a critical evaluation metric in roadway inspection. Conventional manual inspection methods i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,748 Views
22 Pages

Fire Detection in Ship Engine Rooms Based on Deep Learning

  • Jinting Zhu,
  • Jundong Zhang,
  • Yongkang Wang,
  • Yuequn Ge,
  • Ziwei Zhang and
  • Shihan Zhang

20 July 2023

Ship fires are one of the main factors that endanger the safety of ships; because the ship is far away from land, the fire can be difficult to extinguish and could often cause huge losses. The engine room has many pieces of equipment and is the princ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
5,877 Views
18 Pages

Lightweight Helmet Detection Algorithm Using an Improved YOLOv4

  • Junhua Chen,
  • Sihao Deng,
  • Ping Wang,
  • Xueda Huang and
  • Yanfei Liu

21 January 2023

Safety helmet wearing plays a major role in protecting the safety of workers in industry and construction, so a real-time helmet wearing detection technology is very necessary. This paper proposes an improved YOLOv4 algorithm to achieve real-time and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,392 Views
20 Pages

19 August 2022

Surface-defect detection is crucial for assuring the quality of strip-steel manufacturing. Strip-steel surface-defect detection requires defect classification and precision localization, which is a challenge in real-world applications. In this resear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
310 Views
20 Pages

Mobile-CBSD: A Lightweight Apple Leaf Disease Detection Model Based on Improved YOLOv11

  • Jinpu Xu,
  • Wenrui Zhang,
  • Yuyu Zhang,
  • Shuying Bing and
  • Jinhao Lan

6 December 2025

Apple leaf diseases can significantly affect the yield and quality of apple crops. However, conventional manual detection methods are inefficient and highly susceptible to subjective judgment, rendering them inadequate for large-scale agricultural pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,590 Views
17 Pages

25 July 2023

Landslide detection is crucial for natural disaster risk management. Deep-learning-based object-detection algorithms have been shown to be effective in landslide studies. However, advanced algorithms currently used for landslide detection require hig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
733 Views
22 Pages

3 October 2025

The complex environment along railway lines, characterized by low imaging quality, strong background interference, and densely distributed small objects, causes existing detection models to suffer from low accuracy in practical applications. To tackl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,471 Views
15 Pages

Quality Detection and Grading of Rose Tea Based on a Lightweight Model

  • Zezhong Ding,
  • Zhiwei Chen,
  • Zhiyong Gui,
  • Mengqi Guo,
  • Xuesong Zhu,
  • Bin Hu and
  • Chunwang Dong

12 April 2024

Rose tea is a type of flower tea in China’s reprocessed tea category, which is divided into seven grades, including super flower, primary flower, flower bud, flower heart, yellow flower, scattered flower, and waste flower. Grading rose tea into...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,046 Views
23 Pages

Smart Car Damage Assessment Using Enhanced YOLO Algorithm and Image Processing Techniques

  • Muhammad Remzy Syah Ramazhan,
  • Alhadi Bustamam and
  • Rinaldi Anwar Buyung

10 March 2025

Conventional inspections in car damage assessments depend on visual judgments by human inspectors, which are labor-intensive and prone to fraudulent practices through manipulating damages. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence have given ris...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,059 Views
18 Pages

Defect detection in rail fasteners constitutes a fundamental requirement for ensuring safe and reliable railway operations. Confronted with increasingly demanding inspection requirements of modern rail networks, traditional manual visual inspection m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
126 Citations
13,132 Views
23 Pages

Insulator-Defect Detection Algorithm Based on Improved YOLOv7

  • Jianfeng Zheng,
  • Hang Wu,
  • Han Zhang,
  • Zhaoqi Wang and
  • Weiyue Xu

14 November 2022

Existing detection methods face a huge challenge in identifying insulators with minor defects when targeting transmission line images with complex backgrounds. To ensure the safe operation of transmission lines, an improved YOLOv7 model is proposed t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,861 Views
33 Pages

ATS-YOLOv7: A Real-Time Multi-Scale Object Detection Method for UAV Aerial Images Based on Improved YOLOv7

  • Heng Zhang,
  • Faming Shao,
  • Xiaohui He,
  • Weijun Chu,
  • Dewei Zhao,
  • Zihan Zhang and
  • Shaohua Bi

4 December 2023

The objects in UAV aerial images have multiple scales, dense distribution, and occlusion, posing considerable challenges for object detection. In order to address this problem, this paper proposes a real-time multi-scale object detection method based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,980 Views
17 Pages

A Workpiece-Dense Scene Object Detection Method Based on Improved YOLOv5

  • Jiajia Liu,
  • Shun Zhang,
  • Zhongli Ma,
  • Yuehan Zeng and
  • Xueyin Liu

Aiming at the problem of detection difficulties caused by the characteristics of high similarity and disorderly arrangement of workpieces in dense scenes of industrial production lines, this paper proposes a workpiece detection method based on improv...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,675 Views
12 Pages

28 May 2024

Train wheels are crucial components for ensuring the safety of trains. The accurate and fast identification of wheel tread defects is necessary for the timely maintenance of wheels, which is essential for achieving the premise of conditional repair....

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,853 Views
19 Pages

5 August 2024

To address the issues of decreased detection accuracy, false detections, and missed detections caused by scale differences between near and distant targets and environmental factors (such as lighting and water waves) in surface target detection tasks...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,900 Views
16 Pages

Object Detection for Hazardous Material Vehicles Based on Improved YOLOv5 Algorithm

  • Pengcheng Zhu,
  • Bolun Chen,
  • Bushi Liu,
  • Zifan Qi,
  • Shanshan Wang and
  • Ling Wang

Hazardous material vehicles are a non-negligible mobile source of danger in transport and pose a significant safety risk. At present, the current detection technology is well developed, but it also faces a series of challenges such as a significant a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,176 Views
15 Pages

Improved YOLOv7 Algorithm for Small Object Detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Image Scenarios

  • Xinmin Li,
  • Yingkun Wei,
  • Jiahui Li,
  • Wenwen Duan,
  • Xiaoqiang Zhang and
  • Yi Huang

19 February 2024

Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images has become a popular research topic in recent years. However, UAV images are captured from high altitudes with a large proportion of small objects and dense object regions, posing a significant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,793 Views
14 Pages

21 June 2023

A method for counting the number of citrus fruits based on the improved YOLOv5s algorithm combined with the DeepSort tracking algorithm is proposed to address the problem of the low accuracy of counting citrus fruits due to shading and lighting facto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,666 Views
18 Pages

A Lightweight Detection Algorithm for Surface Defects in Small-Sized Bearings

  • Yuanyuan Wang,
  • Zhaoyu Song,
  • Hauwa Suleiman Abdullahi,
  • Shangbing Gao,
  • Haiyan Zhang,
  • Liguo Zhou and
  • Yazhou Li

Background: To address issues in current deep learning models for detecting defects on industrial bearing surfaces, such as large parameter sizes and low precision in identifying small defects, we propose a lightweight detection algorithm for small-s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,078 Views
19 Pages

14 January 2025

This study addresses the challenges of tomato maturity recognition in natural environments, such as occlusion caused by branches and leaves, and the difficulty in detecting stacked fruits. To overcome these issues, we propose a novel YOLOv8n-CA metho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,838 Views
21 Pages

Lightweight UAV Detection Method Based on IASL-YOLO

  • Huaiyu Yang,
  • Bo Liang,
  • Song Feng,
  • Ji Jiang,
  • Ao Fang and
  • Chunyun Li

23 April 2025

The widespread application of drone technology has raised security concerns, as unauthorized drones can lead to illegal intrusions and privacy breaches. Traditional detection methods often fall short in balancing performance and lightweight design, m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,517 Views
22 Pages

3 August 2024

Dragon fruit stem disease significantly affects both the quality and yield of dragon fruit. Therefore, there is an urgent need for an efficient, high-precision intelligent detection method to address the challenge of disease detection. To address the...

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