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28 Citations
4,756 Views
22 Pages

GA-YOLO: A Lightweight YOLO Model for Dense and Occluded Grape Target Detection

  • Jiqing Chen,
  • Aoqiang Ma,
  • Lixiang Huang,
  • Yousheng Su,
  • Wenqu Li,
  • Hongdu Zhang and
  • Zhikui Wang

Picking robots have become an important development direction of smart agriculture, and the position detection of fruit is the key to realizing robot picking. However, the existing detection models have the shortcomings of missing detection and slow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,433 Views
18 Pages

30 October 2024

A novel detection model, MS-YOLO, is developed in this paper to improve the efficiency of drowning rescue operations. The model is lightweight, high in precision, and applicable for intelligent hardware platforms. Firstly, the MD-C2F structure is bui...

  • Article
  • Open Access
748 Views
23 Pages

TSE-YOLO: A Model for Tomato Ripeness Segmentation

  • Liangquan Jia,
  • Xinhui Yuan,
  • Ze Chen,
  • Tao Wang,
  • Lu Gao,
  • Guosong Gu,
  • Xuechun Wang and
  • Yang Wang

Accurate and efficient tomato ripeness estimation is crucial for robotic harvesting and supply chain grading in smart agriculture. However, manual visual inspection is subjective, slow and difficult to scale, while existing vision models often strugg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
415 Views
19 Pages

Light-YOLO-Pepper: A Lightweight Model for Detecting Missing Seedlings

  • Qiang Shi,
  • Yongzhong Zhang,
  • Xiaoxue Du,
  • Tianhua Chen and
  • Yafei Wang

The aim of this study was to accurately meet the demand of real-time detection of seedling shortage in large-scale seedling production and solve the problems of low precision of traditional models and insufficient adaptability of mainstream lightweig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,219 Views
22 Pages

BGLE-YOLO: A Lightweight Model for Underwater Bio-Detection

  • Hua Zhao,
  • Chao Xu,
  • Jiaxing Chen,
  • Zhexian Zhang and
  • Xiang Wang

5 March 2025

Due to low contrast, chromatic aberration, and generally small objects in underwater environments, a new underwater fish detection model, BGLE-YOLO, is proposed to investigate automated methods dedicated to accurately detecting underwater objects in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,780 Views
31 Pages

Explainable AI for Diabetic Retinopathy: Utilizing YOLO Model on a Novel Dataset

  • A. M. Mutawa,
  • Khalid Al Sabti,
  • Seemant Raizada and
  • Sai Sruthi

24 November 2025

Background: Diagnostic errors can be substantially diminished, and clinical decision-making can be significantly enhanced through automated image classification. Methods: We implemented a YOLO (You Only Look Once)-based system to classify diabetic re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,122 Views
21 Pages

17 October 2025

Photovoltaic (PV) panel defect detection is essential for maintaining power generation efficiency and ensuring the safe operation of solar plants. Conventional detectors often suffer from low accuracy and limited adaptability to multi-scale defects....

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
5,871 Views
24 Pages

16 May 2022

With the introduction of concepts such as ubiquitous mapping, mapping-related technologies are gradually applied in autonomous driving and target recognition. There are many problems in vision measurement and remote sensing, such as difficulty in aut...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
132 Views
12 Pages

Lightweight deep-learning models, including MobileNet and LDDm-CNN, have demonstrated significant potential for distinguishing drones from other aerial objects, making them well suited for deployment in resource-constrained environments. However, cla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
760 Views
17 Pages

21 October 2025

The accurate detection of individual litchi crowns is important for precision management and yield estimation. This study aims to improve the YOLOv8n model for accurate detection of litchi crowns in high-resolution satellite images. For this purpose,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,562 Views
26 Pages

17 July 2023

Detecting small targets and handling target occlusion and overlap are critical challenges in weld defect detection. In this paper, we propose the S-YOLO model, a novel weld defect detection method based on the YOLOv8-nano model and several mathematic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
3,869 Views
22 Pages

24 March 2024

Blueberry is among the fruits with high economic gains for orchard farmers. Identification of blueberry fruits with different maturities has economic significance to help orchard farmers plan pesticide application, estimate yield, and conduct harvest...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,068 Views
14 Pages

7 October 2022

As industrial computerized tomography (ICT) is widely used in the non-destructive testing of a solid rocket motor (SRM), the problem of how to automatically discriminate defect types and measure defect sizes with high accuracy in ICT images of SRM gr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,632 Views
16 Pages

30 May 2024

Because of the vast ocean area and the large amount of high-resolution image data, ship detection and data processing have become more difficult. These difficulties can be solved using the artificial intelligence interpretation method. The efficient...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,475 Views
31 Pages

YOLO-SRMX: A Lightweight Model for Real-Time Object Detection on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

  • Shimin Weng,
  • Han Wang,
  • Jiashu Wang,
  • Changming Xu and
  • Ende Zhang

5 July 2025

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) face a significant challenge in balancing high accuracy and high efficiency when performing real-time object detection tasks, especially amidst intricate backgrounds, diverse target scales, and stringent onboard comput...

  • Article
  • Open Access
772 Views
19 Pages

A Yolo-Based Semantic Segmentation Model for Solar Photovoltaic Panel Identification

  • Jiandong Zhang,
  • Daqing Chen,
  • Bo Li,
  • Zhanfang Zhao,
  • Huibo Bi and
  • Perry Xiao

22 December 2025

The global shift towards renewable energy is increasingly driven by the need to reduce carbon emissions and address urban energy demands sustainably. Solar power, as an accessible and efficient energy source, offers substantial potential for integrat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,120 Views
22 Pages

A Hybrid YOLO and Segment Anything Model Pipeline for Multi-Damage Segmentation in UAV Inspection Imagery

  • Rafael Cabral,
  • Ricardo Santos,
  • José A. F. O. Correia and
  • Diogo Ribeiro

25 October 2025

The automated inspection of civil infrastructure with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is hampered by the challenge of accurately segmenting multi-damage in high-resolution imagery. While foundational models like the Segment Anything Model (SAM) offer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,786 Views
27 Pages

23 February 2025

Rice leaf diseases critically threaten global rice production by reducing crop yield and quality. Efficient disease detection in complex field environments remains a persistent challenge for sustainable agriculture. Existing deep learning-based metho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,027 Views
19 Pages

25 July 2024

The identification and enumeration of peach seedling fruits are pivotal in the realm of precision agriculture, greatly influencing both yield estimation and agronomic practices. This study introduces an innovative, lightweight YOLOv8 model for the au...

  • Article
  • Open Access
198 Views
21 Pages

6 March 2026

In response to the challenges of low detection efficiency, high omission rate in small target detection and high model complexity in wood surface defect detection, this study proposes a lightweight detection model based on YOLO, which integrates a du...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,484 Views
16 Pages

4 October 2024

Coastal areas face severe corrosion issues, posing significant risks and economic losses to equipment, personnel, and the environment. YOLO v5, known for its speed, accuracy, and ease of deployment, has been employed for the rapid detection and ident...

  • Article
  • Open Access
722 Views
17 Pages

DFA-YOLO: A Novel YOLO Model for Electric Power Operation Violation Recognition

  • Xiaoliang Qian,
  • Xinyu Ding,
  • Pengfei Wang,
  • Jungang Guo,
  • Hu Chen,
  • Wei Wang and
  • Peixu Xing

11 November 2025

The You Only Look Once (YOLO) series of models, particularly the recently introduced YOLOv12 model, have demonstrated significant potential in achieving accurate and rapid recognition of electric power operation violations, due to their comprehensive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,783 Views
26 Pages

AGRI-YOLO: A Lightweight Model for Corn Weed Detection with Enhanced YOLO v11n

  • Gaohui Peng,
  • Kenan Wang,
  • Jianqin Ma,
  • Bifeng Cui and
  • Dawei Wang

18 September 2025

Corn, as a globally significant food crop, faces significant yield reductions due to competitive growth from weeds. Precise detection and efficient control of weeds are critical technical components for ensuring high and stable corn yields. Tradition...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
6,195 Views
23 Pages

GFS-YOLO11: A Maturity Detection Model for Multi-Variety Tomato

  • Jinfan Wei,
  • Lingyun Ni,
  • Lan Luo,
  • Mengchao Chen,
  • Minghui You,
  • Yu Sun and
  • Tianli Hu

9 November 2024

In order to solve the problems that existing tomato maturity detection methods struggle to take into account both common tomato and cherry tomato varieties in complex field environments (such as light change, occlusion, and fruit overlap) and the mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,575 Views
20 Pages

12 October 2024

Abandoned object detection is a critical task in the field of public safety. However, existing methods perform poorly when detecting small and occluded objects, leading to high false detection and missed detection rates. To address this issue, this p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,090 Views
17 Pages

YOLO-Crater Model for Small Crater Detection

  • Lingli Mu,
  • Lina Xian,
  • Lihong Li,
  • Gang Liu,
  • Mi Chen and
  • Wei Zhang

20 October 2023

Craters are the most prominent geomorphological features on the surface of celestial bodies, which plays a crucial role in studying the formation and evolution of celestial bodies as well as in landing and planning for surface exploration. Currently,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,038 Views
25 Pages

Deployment of CES-YOLO: An Optimized YOLO-Based Model for Blueberry Ripeness Detection on Edge Devices

  • Jun Yuan,
  • Jing Fan,
  • Zhenke Sun,
  • Hongtao Liu,
  • Weilong Yan,
  • Donghan Li,
  • Hui Liu,
  • Jingxiang Wang and
  • Dongyan Huang

13 August 2025

To achieve efficient and accurate detection of blueberry fruit ripeness, this study proposes a lightweight yet high-performance object detection model—CES-YOLO. Designed for real-world blueberry harvesting scenarios, the model addresses key cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,792 Views
19 Pages

A Pool Drowning Detection Model Based on Improved YOLO

  • Wenhui Zhang,
  • Lu Chen and
  • Jianchun Shi

5 September 2025

Drowning constitutes the leading cause of injury-related fatalities among adolescents. In swimming pool environments, traditional manual surveillance exhibits limitations, while existing technologies suffer from poor adaptability of wearable devices....

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,736 Views
16 Pages

An Improved Tuna-YOLO Model Based on YOLO v3 for Real-Time Tuna Detection Considering Lightweight Deployment

  • Yuqing Liu,
  • Huiyong Chu,
  • Liming Song,
  • Zhonglin Zhang,
  • Xing Wei,
  • Ming Chen and
  • Jieran Shen

A real-time tuna detection network on mobile devices is a common tool for accurate tuna catch statistics. However, most object detection models have multiple parameters, and normal mobile devices have difficulties in satisfying real-time detection. B...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,442 Views
24 Pages

30 July 2024

This study aims to enhance the detection accuracy and efficiency of cotton bolls in complex natural environments. Addressing the limitations of traditional methods, we developed an automated detection system based on computer vision, designed to opti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,085 Views
21 Pages

YOLO-HDEW: An Efficient PCB Defect Detection Model

  • Chuanwang Song,
  • Yuanteng Zhou,
  • Yinghao Ma,
  • Qingshuo Qi,
  • Zhaoyu Wang and
  • Keyong Hu

26 August 2025

To address the challenge of detecting small defects in Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), a YOLO-HDEW model based on the enhanced YOLOv8 architecture is proposed. A high-resolution detection layer is introduced at the P2 feature level to improve sensitiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,769 Views
17 Pages

SCS-YOLO: A Defect Detection Model for Cigarette Appearance

  • Yingchao Ding,
  • Hao Zhou,
  • Hao Wu,
  • Chenrui Ma and
  • Guowu Yuan

22 September 2024

Appearance defects significantly impact cigarette quality. However, in the current high-speed production lines, manual inspection and traditional methods are unable to satisfy the actual demands of inspection. Therefore, a real-time and high-precisio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,544 Views
25 Pages

22 August 2025

Agricultural pest detection through image analysis is a key technology in automated pest-monitoring systems. However, some existing pest detection models face excessive model complexity. This study proposes YOLO-LCE, a lightweight model based on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,827 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,608 Views
20 Pages

D-YOLO: A Lightweight Model for Strawberry Health Detection

  • Enhui Wu,
  • Ruijun Ma,
  • Daming Dong and
  • Xiande Zhao

In complex agricultural settings, accurately and rapidly identifying the growth and health conditions of strawberries remains a formidable challenge. Therefore, this study aims to develop a deep framework, Disease-YOLO (D-YOLO), based on the YOLOv8s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,413 Views
25 Pages

FSCA-YOLO: An Enhanced YOLO-Based Model for Multi-Target Dairy Cow Behavior Recognition

  • Ting Long,
  • Rongchuan Yu,
  • Xu You,
  • Weizheng Shen,
  • Xiaoli Wei and
  • Zhixin Gu

8 September 2025

In real-world dairy farming environments, object recognition models often suffer from missed or false detections due to complex backgrounds and cow occlusions. In response to these issues, this paper proposes FSCA-YOLO, a multi-object cow behavior re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,121 Views
19 Pages

Fire Detection and Geo-Localization Using UAV’s Aerial Images and Yolo-Based Models

  • Kheireddine Choutri,
  • Mohand Lagha,
  • Souham Meshoul,
  • Mohamed Batouche,
  • Farah Bouzidi and
  • Wided Charef

21 October 2023

The past decade has witnessed a growing demand for drone-based fire detection systems, driven by escalating concerns about wildfires exacerbated by climate change, as corroborated by environmental studies. However, deploying existing drone-based fire...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,838 Views
11 Pages

A YOLO-Based Target Detection Model for Offshore Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Data

  • Zhenhua Wang,
  • Xinyue Zhang,
  • Jing Li and
  • Kuifeng Luan

24 November 2021

Target detection in offshore unmanned aerial vehicle data is still a challenge due to the complex characteristics of targets, such as multi-sizes, alterable orientation, and complex backgrounds. Herein, a YOLO-based detection model (YOLO-D) was propo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,791 Views
19 Pages

Comparative Analysis of YOLO Models for Bean Leaf Disease Detection in Natural Environments

  • Diana-Carmen Rodríguez-Lira,
  • Diana-Margarita Córdova-Esparza,
  • José M. Álvarez-Alvarado,
  • Julio-Alejandro Romero-González,
  • Juan Terven and
  • Juvenal Rodríguez-Reséndiz

30 November 2024

This study presents a comparative analysis of YOLO detection models for the accurate identification of bean leaf diseases caused by Coleoptera pests in natural environments. By using a manually collected dataset of healthy and infected bean leaves in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
169 Citations
12,955 Views
18 Pages

YOLO-Tea: A Tea Disease Detection Model Improved by YOLOv5

  • Zhenyang Xue,
  • Renjie Xu,
  • Di Bai and
  • Haifeng Lin

17 February 2023

Diseases and insect pests of tea leaves cause huge economic losses to the tea industry every year, so the accurate identification of them is significant. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can automatically extract features from images of tea leave...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,560 Views
20 Pages

21 August 2025

Small object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’ (UAVs) aerial images faces challenges such as low detection accuracy and complex backgrounds. Meanwhile, it is difficult to deploy the object detection models with large parameters on resource...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,153 Views
16 Pages

This article discusses the tasks involved in the operational assessment of the volume of produced goods, such as tomatoes. The large-scale implementation of computer vision systems in greenhouses requires approaches that reduce costs, time and comple...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,104 Views
22 Pages

4 July 2024

With the advancement in living standards, there has been a significant surge in the quantity and diversity of household waste. To safeguard the environment and optimize resource utilization, there is an urgent demand for effective and cost-efficient...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,478 Views
16 Pages

28 November 2021

Attention mechanisms have demonstrated great potential in improving the performance of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, many existing methods dedicate to developing channel or spatial attention modules for CNNs with lots of paramet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,329 Views
16 Pages

4 July 2025

The timely detection of insulator defects in transmission lines is vital for ensuring social production and people’s livelihoods. Aiming to solve the problem of the low accuracy of insulator defect detection in current detection models, this st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,061 Views
17 Pages

25 February 2025

Pneumonia is a respiratory infection that affects the lungs. The symptoms of viral and bacterial pneumonia are similar. In order to improve automatic detection efficiency regarding X-ray images of pneumonia, this paper, we propose a novel pneumonia d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,915 Views
20 Pages

VV-YOLO: A Vehicle View Object Detection Model Based on Improved YOLOv4

  • Yinan Wang,
  • Yingzhou Guan,
  • Hanxu Liu,
  • Lisheng Jin,
  • Xinwei Li,
  • Baicang Guo and
  • Zhe Zhang

23 March 2023

Vehicle view object detection technology is the key to the environment perception modules of autonomous vehicles, which is crucial for driving safety. In view of the characteristics of complex scenes, such as dim light, occlusion, and long distance,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,525 Views
16 Pages

V-YOLO: A Lightweight and Efficient Detection Model for Guava in Complex Orchard Environments

  • Zhen Liu,
  • Juntao Xiong,
  • Mingrui Cai,
  • Xiaoxin Li and
  • Xinjie Tan

2 September 2024

The global agriculture industry is encountering challenges due to labor shortages and the demand for increased efficiency. Currently, fruit yield estimation in guava orchards primarily depends on manual counting. Machine vision is an essential techno...

  • Article
  • Open Access
596 Views
27 Pages

RDT-YOLO: An Improved Lightweight Model for Fish Maw Authenticity Detection

  • Caijian Xie,
  • Mingguang Liu,
  • Wanzhen Zhang,
  • Yuting Zhang,
  • Shahbaz Gul Hassan,
  • Weijie Guo,
  • Tonglai Liu,
  • Shuangyin Liu and
  • Xuekai Gao

23 November 2025

With the rapid expansion of the global fish maw industry, the increasing prevalence of counterfeit products has made authenticity detection a critical challenge. Traditional detection methods rely on organoleptic assessment, chemical analysis, or mol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,766 Views
26 Pages

16 August 2024

Object detection algorithms for open water aerial images present challenges such as small object size, unsatisfactory detection accuracy, numerous network parameters, and enormous computational demands. Current detection algorithms struggle to meet t...

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