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  • Open Access
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Efficient and Lightweight LD-SAGE Model for High-Accuracy Leaf Disease Segmentation in Understory Ginseng

  • Yanlei Xu,
  • Ziyuan Yu,
  • Dongze Wang,
  • Chao Liu,
  • Zhen Lu,
  • Chen Zhao and
  • Yang Zhou

22 October 2025

Understory ginseng, with superior quality compared to field-cultivated varieties, is highly susceptible to diseases, which negatively impact both its yield and quality. Therefore, this paper proposes a lightweight, high-precision leaf spot segmentati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
847 Views
17 Pages

StarNet-Embedded Efficient Network for On-Tree Palm Fruit Ripeness Identification in Complex Environments

  • Jiehao Li,
  • Tao Zhang,
  • Shan Zeng,
  • Qiaoming Gao,
  • Lianqi Wang and
  • Jiahuan Lu

27 August 2025

As a globally significant oil crop, precise ripeness identification of palm fruits directly impacts harvesting efficiency and oil quality. However, the progress and application of identifying the ripeness of palm fruits have been impeded by the compu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,389 Views
17 Pages

Distracted Driving Behavior Detection Algorithm Based on Lightweight StarDL-YOLO

  • Qian Shen,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Yuxiang Zhang,
  • Yi Li,
  • Shihao Liu and
  • Yin Xu

14 August 2024

Distracted driving is one of the major factors leading drivers to ignore potential road hazards. In response to the challenges of high computational complexity, limited generalization capacity, and suboptimal detection accuracy in existing deep learn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
800 Views
24 Pages

To address the issues of low efficiency and large errors in traditional manual cucumber fruit phenotyping methods, this paper proposes the application of keypoint detection technology for cucumber phenotyping and designs an improved lightweight model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,109 Views
14 Pages

Lightweight Helmet-Wearing Detection Algorithm Based on StarNet-YOLOv10

  • Hongli Wang,
  • Qiangwen Zong,
  • Yang Liao,
  • Xiao Luo,
  • Mingzhi Gong,
  • Zhenyao Liang,
  • Bin Gu and
  • Yong Liao

22 March 2025

The safety helmet is the equipment that construction workers must wear, and it plays an important role in protecting their lives. However, there are still many construction workers who do not pay attention to the wearing of helmets. Therefore, the re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
805 Views
22 Pages

16 September 2025

Aiming at the problems of excessive computational load, insufficient real-time performance, and an excessive amount of model parameters in track inspection, this paper proposes a lightweight track feature detection module (YOLO-LWTD) based on YOLO11n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,187 Views
17 Pages

Detecting defects in transmission line insulators is crucial to prevent power grid failures as power systems continue to expand. This study introduces YOL011n-SSA, an enhanced insulator defect detection technique method that addresses the challenges...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
964 Views
24 Pages

GCF-DeepLabv3+: An Improved Segmentation Network for Maize Straw Plot Classification

  • Yuanyuan Liu,
  • Jiaxin Zhang,
  • Yueyong Wang,
  • Yang Luo,
  • Pengxiang Sui,
  • Ying Ren,
  • Xiaodan Liu and
  • Jun Wang

22 April 2025

To meet the need of rapid identification of straw coverage types in conservation tillage fields, we investigated the use of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) low-altitude remote sensing images for accurate detection. UAVs were used to capture images of c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,039 Views
23 Pages

DS-YOLO: A Lightweight Strawberry Fruit Detection Algorithm

  • Hao Teng,
  • Fuchun Sun,
  • Haorong Wu,
  • Dong Lv,
  • Qiurong Lv,
  • Fan Feng,
  • Sichen Yang and
  • Xiaoxiao Li

20 September 2025

Strawberry detection in complex orchard environments remains a challenging task due to frequent leaf occlusion, fruit overlap, and illumination variability. To address these challenges, this study presents an improved lightweight detection framework,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,962 Views
20 Pages

Lightweight Corn Leaf Detection and Counting Using Improved YOLOv8

  • Shaotong Ning,
  • Feng Tan,
  • Xue Chen,
  • Xiaohui Li,
  • Hang Shi and
  • Jinkai Qiu

15 August 2024

The number of maize leaves is an important indicator for assessing plant growth and regulating population structure. However, the traditional leaf counting method mainly relies on manual work, which is both time-consuming and straining, while the exi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,920 Views
23 Pages

Colony-YOLO: A Lightweight Micro-Colony Detection Network Based on Improved YOLOv8n

  • Meihua Wang,
  • Junhui Luo,
  • Kai Lin,
  • Yuankai Chen,
  • Xinpeng Huang,
  • Jiping Liu,
  • Anbang Wang and
  • Deqin Xiao

The detection of colony-forming units (CFUs) is a time-consuming but essential task in mulberry bacterial blight research. To overcome the problem of inaccurate small-target detection and high computational consumption in mulberry bacterial blight co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,507 Views
25 Pages

A Lightweight Method for Road Defect Detection in UAV Remote Sensing Images with Complex Backgrounds and Cross-Scale Fusion

  • Wenya Zhang,
  • Xiang Li,
  • Lina Wang,
  • Danfei Zhang,
  • Pengfei Lu,
  • Lei Wang and
  • Chuanxiang Cheng

30 June 2025

The accuracy of road damage detection models based on UAV remote sensing images is generally low, mainly due to the challenges posed by the complex background of road damage, diverse forms, and necessary computational requirements. To tackle the issu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
812 Views
21 Pages

11 July 2025

The flowering stage is a critical phase in the growth of rapeseed crops, and non-destructive, high-throughput quantitative analysis of rape flower clusters in field environments holds significant importance for rapeseed breeding. However, detecting a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,385 Views
19 Pages

9 October 2024

Strip steel surface defect detection has become a crucial step in ensuring the quality of strip steel production. To address the issues of low detection accuracy and long detection times in strip steel surface defect detection algorithms caused by va...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,323 Views
16 Pages

8 July 2024

The identification of safflower filament targets and the precise localization of picking points are fundamental prerequisites for achieving automated filament retrieval. In light of challenges such as severe occlusion of targets, low recognition accu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,864 Views
21 Pages

19 August 2025

Transmission lines are widely distributed in complex environments, making them susceptible to foreign object intrusion, which could lead to serious consequences, i.e., power outages. Currently, foreign object detection on transmission lines is primar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
425 Views
21 Pages

Identification and Posture Evaluation of Effective Tea Buds Based on Improved YOLOv8n

  • Pan Wang,
  • Tingting He,
  • Luxin Xie,
  • Wenyu Yi,
  • Lei Zhao,
  • Chunxia Wang,
  • Jiani Wang,
  • Zhiye Bai and
  • Song Mei

11 November 2025

Aiming at the low qualification rate and high damage caused by the lack of identification, localization, and posture estimation of tea buds in the mechanical harvesting process of famous tea, a framework of lightweight detection + PCA-skeleton fusion...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,426 Views
26 Pages

18 August 2025

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship detection faces significant challenges due to complex marine backgrounds, diverse ship scales and shapes, and the demand for lightweight algorithms. Traditional methods, such as constant false alarm rate and edge d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
685 Views
20 Pages

Trunk Detection in Complex Forest Environments Using a Lightweight YOLOv11-TrunkLight Algorithm

  • Siqi Zhang,
  • Yubi Zheng,
  • Rengui Bi,
  • Yu Chen,
  • Cong Chen,
  • Xiaowen Tian and
  • Bolin Liao

5 October 2025

The autonomous navigation of inspection robots in complex forest environments heavily relies on accurate trunk detection. However, existing detection models struggle to achieve both high accuracy and real-time performance on resource-constrained edge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,762 Views
21 Pages

LH-YOLO: A Lightweight and High-Precision SAR Ship Detection Model Based on the Improved YOLOv8n

  • Qi Cao,
  • Hang Chen,
  • Shang Wang,
  • Yongqiang Wang,
  • Haisheng Fu,
  • Zhenjiao Chen and
  • Feng Liang

20 November 2024

Synthetic aperture radar is widely applied to ship detection due to generating high-resolution images under diverse weather conditions and its penetration capabilities, making SAR images a valuable data source. However, detecting multi-scale ship tar...