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41 Citations
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Cattle Body Detection Based on YOLOv5-EMA for Precision Livestock Farming

  • Wangli Hao,
  • Chao Ren,
  • Meng Han,
  • Li Zhang,
  • Fuzhong Li and
  • Zhenyu Liu

15 November 2023

Accurate cattle body detection is crucial for precision livestock farming. However, traditional cattle body detection methods rely on manual observation, which is both time-consuming and labor-intensive. Moreover, computer-vision-based methods suffer...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,825 Views
13 Pages

YOLOv8 Architectural Scene Section Recognition Method Based on SimAM-EMA Hybrid Attention Mechanism

  • Jiangang Ye,
  • Zilong Shu,
  • Wen Zhou,
  • Weijun Hu,
  • Jinwen Qiu,
  • Feng Xu,
  • Hui Wang and
  • Guoliang Luo

12 May 2025

To overcome the limitations of current methods in architectural scene segmentation accuracy, this study presents a hybrid attention-enhanced YOLOv8 framework and introduces a dedicated building interior profile dataset. The proposed approach extends...

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  • Open Access
614 Views
22 Pages

EAG-YOLOv11n: An Efficient Attention-Guided Network for Rice Leaf Disease Detection

  • Cheng Li,
  • Bo Qiao,
  • Dongdong Wei,
  • Fang Kui,
  • Xinghui Zhu,
  • Jian Yu and
  • Xiaoyi Nie

29 October 2025

Rice leaf diseases are critical factors affecting rice yield and quality, and their effective detection is crucial for ensuring stable production. However, existing detection models exhibit limitations in capturing irregular and fine-grained lesion f...

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  • Open Access
61 Citations
14,338 Views
18 Pages

11 October 2023

Accurately detecting student classroom behaviors in classroom videos is beneficial for analyzing students’ classroom performance and consequently enhancing teaching effectiveness. To address challenges such as object density, occlusion, and mul...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,800 Views
25 Pages

Bud-YOLOv8s: A Potato Bud-Eye-Detection Algorithm Based on Improved YOLOv8s

  • Wenlong Liu,
  • Zhao Li,
  • Shaoshuang Zhang,
  • Ting Qin and
  • Jiaqi Zhao

The key to intelligent seed potato cutting technology lies in the accurate and rapid identification of potato bud eyes. Existing detection algorithms suffer from low recognition accuracy and high model complexity, resulting in an increased miss rate....

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,696 Views
19 Pages

9 September 2024

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with cameras offer extensive monitoring capabilities and exceptional maneuverability, making them ideal for real-time ship detection and effective ship management. However, ship detection by camera-equipped UAVs faces...

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  • Open Access
49 Citations
8,224 Views
21 Pages

20 July 2024

In the rapidly developing drone industry, drone use has led to a series of safety hazards in both civil and military settings, making drone detection an increasingly important research field. It is difficult to overcome this challenge with traditiona...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,107 Views
22 Pages

In agricultural research, effective and efficient disease detection in crops is crucial for enhancing yield and sustainability. This study presents a novel approach to improving YOLOv8, a state-of-the-art object detection model, by integrating the Gh...

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  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,261 Views
14 Pages

A Remote Sensing Image Target Detection Algorithm Based on Improved YOLOv8

  • Haoyu Wang,
  • Haitao Yang,
  • Hang Chen,
  • Jinyu Wang,
  • Xixuan Zhou and
  • Yifan Xu

15 February 2024

Aiming at the characteristics of remote sensing images such as a complex background, a large number of small targets, and various target scales, this paper presents a remote sensing image target detection algorithm based on improved YOLOv8. First, in...

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  • Open Access
2,698 Views
22 Pages

Research and Optimization of White Blood Cell Classification Methods Based on Deep Learning and Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy

  • Mingjing Li,
  • Junshuai Wang,
  • Shu Fang,
  • Le Yang,
  • Xinyang Liu,
  • Haijiao Yun,
  • Xiaoli Wang,
  • Qingyu Du and
  • Ziqing Han

24 April 2025

White blood cell (WBC) classification plays a crucial role in hematopathology and clinical diagnostics. However, traditional methods are constrained by limited receptive fields and insufficient utilization of contextual information, which hinders cla...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,168 Views
19 Pages

GE-YOLO for Weed Detection in Rice Paddy Fields

  • Zimeng Chen,
  • Baifan Chen,
  • Yi Huang and
  • Zeshun Zhou

5 March 2025

Weeds are a significant adverse factor affecting rice growth, and their efficient removal necessitates an accurate, efficient, and well-generalizing weed detection method. However, weed detection faces challenges such as a complex vegetation environm...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,132 Views
16 Pages

Design and Implementation of a High-Throughput Digital Microfluidic System Based on Optimized YOLOv8 Object Detection

  • Ming Cao,
  • Wufeng Duan,
  • Zuwei Huang,
  • Huihong Liang,
  • Fanrong Ai and
  • Xianming Liu

28 April 2025

To address the challenges of excessive control pins and inefficient high-throughput droplet manipulation in conventional digital microfluidic chips, this study developed a parallel-motion digital microfluidic system integrated with an image acquisiti...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,115 Views
20 Pages

A Real-Time Cotton Boll Disease Detection Model Based on Enhanced YOLOv11n

  • Lei Yang,
  • Wenhao Cui,
  • Jingqian Li,
  • Guotao Han,
  • Qi Zhou,
  • Yubin Lan,
  • Jing Zhao and
  • Yongliang Qiao

21 July 2025

Existing methods for detecting cotton boll diseases frequently exhibit high rates of both false negatives and false positives under complex field conditions (e.g., lighting variations, shadows, and occlusions) and struggle to achieve real-time perfor...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,330 Views
22 Pages

EcoDetect-YOLOv2: A High-Performance Model for Multi-Scale Waste Detection in Complex Surveillance Environments

  • Jing Su,
  • Ruihan Chen,
  • Mingzhi Li,
  • Shenlin Liu,
  • Guobao Xu and
  • Zanhong Zheng

30 May 2025

Conventional waste monitoring relies heavily on manual inspection, while most detection models are trained on close-range, simplified datasets, limiting their applicability for real-world surveillance. Even with surveillance imagery, challenges such...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,911 Views
21 Pages

Line-YOLO: An Efficient Detection Algorithm for Power Line Angle

  • Chuanjiang Wang,
  • Yuqing Chen,
  • Zecong Wu,
  • Baoqi Liu,
  • Hao Tian,
  • Dongxiao Jiang and
  • Xiujuan Sun

31 January 2025

Aiming at the problem that the workload of human judgment of the power line tilt angle is large and prone to large errors, this paper proposes an improved algorithm Line-YOLO based on YOLOv8s-seg. Firstly, the problem of the variable shape of the pow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,416 Views
16 Pages

RSDNet: A New Multiscale Rail Surface Defect Detection Model

  • Jingyi Du,
  • Ruibo Zhang,
  • Rui Gao,
  • Lei Nan and
  • Yifan Bao

1 June 2024

The rapid and accurate identification of rail surface defects is critical to the maintenance and operational safety of the rail. For the problems of large-scale differences in rail surface defects and many small-scale defects, this paper proposes a r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,622 Views
17 Pages

FEI-YOLO: A Lightweight Soybean Pod-Type Detection Model

  • Yang Li,
  • Shirui Teng,
  • Jiajun Chen,
  • Wan Zhou,
  • Wei Zhan,
  • Jun Wang,
  • Lan Huang and
  • Lijuan Qiu

27 October 2024

Identifying and statistically analyzing soybean pod types are crucial for seed evaluation and yield estimation. Traditional visual assessment by breeding personnel is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and prone to subjective bias, especially with larg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,247 Views
24 Pages

EMA-YOLO: A Novel Target-Detection Algorithm for Immature Yellow Peach Based on YOLOv8

  • Dandan Xu,
  • Hao Xiong,
  • Yue Liao,
  • Hongruo Wang,
  • Zhizhang Yuan and
  • Hua Yin

11 June 2024

Accurate determination of the number and location of immature small yellow peaches is crucial for bagging, thinning, and estimating yield in modern orchards. However, traditional methods have faced challenges in accurately distinguishing immature yel...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,510 Views
17 Pages

31 August 2024

Electric vehicle accidents on the road occur frequently, and head injuries are often the cause of serious casualties. However, most electric vehicle riders seldom wear helmets. Therefore, combining target detection algorithms with road cameras to int...

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  • Open Access
57 Citations
11,493 Views
26 Pages

YOLOv8-C2f-Faster-EMA: An Improved Underwater Trash Detection Model Based on YOLOv8

  • Jin Zhu,
  • Tao Hu,
  • Linhan Zheng,
  • Nan Zhou,
  • Huilin Ge and
  • Zhichao Hong

12 April 2024

Anthropogenic waste deposition in aquatic environments precipitates a decline in water quality, engendering pollution that adversely impacts human health, ecological integrity, and economic endeavors. The evolution of underwater robotic technologies...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,714 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...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
605 Views
22 Pages

Optimization of Visual Detection Algorithms for Elevator Landing Door Safety-Keeper Bolts

  • Chuanlong Zhang,
  • Zixiao Li,
  • Jinjin Li,
  • Lin Zou and
  • Enyuan Dong

1 September 2025

As the safety requirements of elevator systems continue to rise, the detection of loose bolts and the high-precision segmentation of anti-loosening lines have become critical challenges in elevator landing door inspection. Traditional manual inspecti...

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  • Open Access
2,002 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
763 Views
21 Pages

27 April 2025

Gesture interaction is one of the novel human-computer interaction methods for smart TVs. Addressing the issues of false detection and high detection costs in gesture recognition algorithms for gesture interaction, this paper proposes the YOLOv8n-Rem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,917 Views
27 Pages

9 February 2024

X-ray inspections of contraband are widely used to maintain public transportation safety and protect life and property when people travel. To improve detection accuracy and reduce the probability of missed and false detection, a contraband detection...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,906 Views
18 Pages

Improved YOLOv8 Model for Lightweight Pigeon Egg Detection

  • Tao Jiang,
  • Jie Zhou,
  • Binbin Xie,
  • Longshen Liu,
  • Chengyue Ji,
  • Yao Liu,
  • Binghan Liu and
  • Bo Zhang

19 April 2024

In response to the high breakage rate of pigeon eggs and the significant labor costs associated with egg-producing pigeon farming, this study proposes an improved YOLOv8-PG (real versus fake pigeon egg detection) model based on YOLOv8n. Specifically,...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,445 Views
15 Pages

11 December 2024

Addressing the low accuracy and slow detection speed experienced by algorithms based on deep learning for a leather defect detection task, a lightweight and improved leather defect detection algorithm, dubbed YOLOv8-AGE, has been proposed based on YO...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,919 Views
17 Pages

CFE-YOLOv8s: Improved YOLOv8s for Steel Surface Defect Detection

  • Shuxin Yang,
  • Yang Xie,
  • Jianqing Wu,
  • Weidong Huang,
  • Hongsheng Yan,
  • Jingyong Wang,
  • Bi Wang,
  • Xiangchun Yu,
  • Qiang Wu and
  • Fei Xie

Due to the low detection accuracy in steel surface defect detection and the constraints of limited hardware resources, we propose an improved model for steel surface defect detection, named CBiF-FC-EFC-YOLOv8s (CFE-YOLOv8s), including CBS-BiFormer (C...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,501 Views
17 Pages

Regulation of Meat Duck Activeness through Photoperiod Based on Deep Learning

  • Enze Duan,
  • Guofeng Han,
  • Shida Zhao,
  • Yiheng Ma,
  • Yingchun Lv and
  • Zongchun Bai

14 November 2023

The regulation of duck physiology and behavior through the photoperiod holds significant importance for enhancing poultry farming efficiency. To clarify the impact of the photoperiod on group-raised duck activeness and quantify duck activeness, this...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,179 Views
18 Pages

9 May 2025

To address issues in traditional forest fire detection models, such as large parameter sizes, slow detection speed, and unsuitability for resource-constrained devices, this paper proposes a forest fire detection method, FEDS-YOLOv11n, based on an imp...

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  • Open Access
37 Citations
13,733 Views
24 Pages

25 September 2024

Object detection, as a crucial aspect of computer vision, plays a vital role in traffic management, emergency response, autonomous vehicles, and smart cities. Despite the significant advancements in object detection, detecting small objects in images...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,343 Views
27 Pages

25 March 2025

Mineral identification technology is a critical technology in the construction of smart mines. To enable effective deployment and implementation of rapid mineral sorting for valuable ores on edge computing devices, we propose a lightweight identifica...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,899 Views
18 Pages

Traffic sign detection is a core function of autonomous driving systems, requiring real-time and accurate target recognition in complex road environments. Existing lightweight detection models struggle to balance accuracy, efficiency, and robustness...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,464 Views
17 Pages

7 August 2025

Detecting steel defects is a vital process in industrial production, but traditional methods suffer from poor feature extraction and low detection accuracy. To address these issues, this research introduces an improved model, EB-YOLOv8, based on YOLO...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
2,981 Views
16 Pages

Intelligent Detection of Lightweight “Yuluxiang” Pear in Non-Structural Environment Based on YOLO-GEW

  • Rui Ren,
  • Haixia Sun,
  • Shujuan Zhang,
  • Ning Wang,
  • Xinyuan Lu,
  • Jianping Jing,
  • Mingming Xin and
  • Tianyu Cui

20 September 2023

To detect quickly and accurately “Yuluxiang” pear fruits in non-structural environments, a lightweight YOLO-GEW detection model is proposed to address issues such as similar fruit color to leaves, fruit bagging, and complex environments....

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,554 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
4 Citations
2,744 Views
20 Pages

31 December 2024

To address the challenges associated with lightweight design and small object detection in infrared imaging for substation electrical equipment, this paper introduces an enhanced YOLOv8_Adv network model. This model builds on YOLOv8 through several s...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
979 Views
14 Pages

21 March 2025

To address the challenges of low detection accuracy and high difficulty in dead fish identification due to water surface reflections, low contrast between targets and the environment, uncertain positions between detection sources and targets, and the...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,130 Views
21 Pages

7 May 2024

For small target objects on fast-moving conveyor belts, traditional vision detection algorithms equipped with conventional robotic arms struggle to capture the long and short-range pixel dependencies crucial for accurate detection. This leads to high...

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  • Open Access
815 Views
20 Pages

GIA-YOLO: A Target Detection Method for Nectarine Picking Robots in Facility Orchards

  • Longlong Ren,
  • Yuqiang Li,
  • Yonghui Du,
  • Ang Gao,
  • Wei Ma,
  • Yuepeng Song and
  • Xingchang Han

11 August 2025

The complex and variable environment of facility orchards poses significant challenges for intelligent robotic operations. To address issues such as nectarine fruit occlusion by branches and leaves, complex backgrounds, and the demand for high real-t...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,190 Views
16 Pages

13 June 2025

Insulator defect detection is important in ensuring power systems’ safety and stable operation. To solve the problems of its low accuracy, high delay, and large model size in complex environments, following the principle of progressive extracti...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,123 Views
14 Pages

Triple Attention Mechanism with YOLOv5s for Fish Detection

  • Wei Long,
  • Yawen Wang,
  • Lingxi Hu,
  • Jintao Zhang,
  • Chen Zhang,
  • Linhua Jiang and
  • Lihong Xu

23 April 2024

Traditional fish farming methods suffer from backward production, low efficiency, low yield, and environmental pollution. As a result of thorough research using deep learning technology, the industrial aquaculture model has experienced gradual matura...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,579 Views
15 Pages

23 December 2024

Object detection powered by deep learning is extensively utilized across diverse sectors, yielding substantial outcomes. However, adverse weather conditions such as rain, snow, and haze interfere with images, leading to a decline in quality and makin...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,215 Views
19 Pages

11 August 2024

The intelligent detection of young peaches is the main technology of fruit-thinning robots, which is crucial for enhancing peach fruit quality and reducing labor costs. This study presents the lightweight YOLO-PEM model based on YOLOv8s to achieve hi...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,204 Views
20 Pages

Light-YOLO: A Lightweight and Efficient YOLO-Based Deep Learning Model for Mango Detection

  • Zhengyang Zhong,
  • Lijun Yun,
  • Feiyan Cheng,
  • Zaiqing Chen and
  • Chunjie Zhang

This paper proposes a lightweight and efficient mango detection model named Light-YOLO based on the Darknet53 structure, aiming to rapidly and accurately detect mango fruits in natural environments, effectively mitigating instances of false or missed...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,948 Views
15 Pages

Field-Based Soybean Flower and Pod Detection Using an Improved YOLOv8-VEW Method

  • Kunpeng Zhao,
  • Jinyang Li,
  • Wenqiang Shi,
  • Liqiang Qi,
  • Chuntao Yu and
  • Wei Zhang

Changes in soybean flower and pod numbers are important factors affecting soybean yields. Obtaining the number of flowers and pods, as well as fallen flowers and pods, quickly and accurately is crucial for soybean variety breeding and high-quality an...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,457 Views
31 Pages

25 September 2025

Acoustic imaging systems are essential for underwater target recognition and localization, but forward-looking sonar (FLS) imagery faces challenges due to seabed variability, resulting in low resolution, blurred images, and sparse targets. To address...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,956 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...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,120 Views
10 Pages

1 October 2024

The fish detection algorithm is of great significance for obtaining aquaculture information, optimizing prey allocation in aquaculture, and improving the growth efficiency and survival rate of fish. To address the challenges of high complexity, large...

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  • Open Access
37 Citations
3,701 Views
19 Pages

WFRE-YOLOv8s: A New Type of Defect Detector for Steel Surfaces

  • Yao Huang,
  • Wenzhu Tan,
  • Liu Li and
  • Lijuan Wu

28 November 2023

During the production of steel, in view of the manufacturing engineering, transportation, and other factors, a steel surface may produce some defects, which will endanger the service life and performance of the steel. Therefore, the detection of defe...

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