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  • Open Access
257 Views
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6 December 2025

Pavement cracks are a critical indicator for assessing structural health and forecasting deterioration trends. Accurate and automated crack classification is of paramount importance for the intelligent maintenance of road structures. Inspired by the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,630 Views
22 Pages

21 December 2023

As affected by limited information and the complex background, the accuracy of small-target water-floating garbage detection is low. To increase the detection accuracy, in this research, a small-target detection method based on APM-YOLOv7 (the improv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,353 Views
14 Pages

A Mask-Wearing Detection Model in Complex Scenarios Based on YOLOv7-CPCSDSA

  • Jingyang Wang,
  • Junkai Wang,
  • Xiaotian Zhang and
  • Naiwen Yu

With the rapid development of deep learning technology, many algorithms for mask-wearing detection have achieved remarkable results. However, the detection effect still needs to be improved when dealing with mask-wearing in some complex scenes where...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,716 Views
21 Pages

Lightweight Mulberry Fruit Detection Method Based on Improved YOLOv8n for Automated Harvesting

  • Hong Qiu,
  • Qinghui Zhang,
  • Junqiu Li,
  • Jian Rong and
  • Zongpeng Yang

30 November 2024

Aiming at the difficulty of feature extraction in complex environments during mulberry detection and the need for embedded devices to lighten the model, this study carries out lightweight improvements on the basis of the YOLOv8n model. First, the CSP...

  • Article
  • Open Access
265 Views
14 Pages

A Lightweight and Efficient Approach for Distracted Driving Detection Based on YOLOv8

  • Fu Li,
  • Shenghao Gu,
  • Lei Lu,
  • Binghua Ren,
  • Lijuan Zhang and
  • Wangyu Wu

To overcome the issues of excessive computation and resource usage in distracted driving detection systems, this study introduces a compact detection framework named YOLOv8s-FPNE, built upon the YOLOv8 architecture. The proposed model incorporates Fa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
2,558 Views
17 Pages

29 May 2024

The classification of Stropharia rugoso-annulata is currently reliant on manual sorting, which may be subject to bias. To improve the sorting efficiency, automated sorting equipment could be used instead. However, sorting naked mushrooms in real time...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,461 Views
14 Pages

31 May 2024

With the increasing complexity of the grid meter dial, precise feature extraction is becoming more and more difficult. Many automatic recognition solutions have been proposed for grid meter readings. However, traditional inspection methods cannot gua...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,217 Views
25 Pages

Classroom Behavior Detection Method Based on PLA-YOLO11n

  • Hongshuo Zhang,
  • Guohui Zhou,
  • Wei He and
  • Hanlin Deng

1 September 2025

Accurate detection of student behavior in the classroom helps analyze students’ learning states and contributes to improving teaching effectiveness. We propose the PLA-YOLO11n classroom behavior detection model. We design a novel C3K2_PConv mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
512 Views
14 Pages

1 October 2025

In this paper, a target detection network algorithm based on a multi-branch convolution and attention improvement Cross-Stage Partial-Fusion Bottleneck with Two Convolutions (C2F) module is proposed for the difficult task of detecting small targets i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,684 Views
16 Pages

BPN-YOLO: A Novel Method for Wood Defect Detection Based on YOLOv7

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

25 June 2024

The detection of wood defect is a crucial step in wood processing and manufacturing, determining the quality and reliability of wood products. To achieve accurate wood defect detection, a novel method named BPN-YOLO is proposed. The ordinary convolut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
1,781 Views
21 Pages

17 February 2025

To address the challenges of detecting cotton pests and diseases in natural environments, as well as the similarities in the features exhibited by cotton pests and diseases, a Lightweight Cotton Disease Detection in Natural Environment (LCDDN-YOLO) a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,937 Views
19 Pages

11 January 2021

Chinese characters in ancient books have many corrupted characters, and there are cases in which objects are mixed in the process of extracting the characters into images. To use this incomplete image as accurate data, we use image completion technol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
161 Views
26 Pages

27 December 2025

Remaining Useful Life (RUL) prediction for aeroengines represents a core challenge in Prognostics and Health Management (PHM), with significant implications for condition-based maintenance, operational cost reduction, and flight safety enhancement. C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
692 Views
17 Pages

A Structurally Optimized and Efficient Lightweight Object Detection Model for Autonomous Driving

  • Mingjing Li,
  • Junshuai Wang,
  • Shuang Chen,
  • LinLin Liu,
  • KaiJie Li,
  • Zengzhi Zhao and
  • Haijiao Yun

21 December 2025

Object detection plays a pivotal role in safety-critical applications, including autonomous driving, intelligent surveillance, and unmanned aerial systems. However, many state-of-the-art detectors remain highly resource-intensive; their large paramet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
945 Views
25 Pages

An Improved YOLOv8n-Based Method for Detecting Rice Shelling Rate and Brown Rice Breakage Rate

  • Zhaoyun Wu,
  • Yehao Zhang,
  • Zhongwei Zhang,
  • Fasheng Shen,
  • Li Li,
  • Xuewu He,
  • Hongyu Zhong and
  • Yufei Zhou

Accurate and real-time detection of rice shelling rate (SR) and brown rice breakage rate (BR) is crucial for intelligent hulling sorting but remains challenging because of small grain size, dense adhesion, and uneven illumination causing missed detec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,042 Views
16 Pages

Optimizing the YOLOv7-Tiny Model with Multiple Strategies for Citrus Fruit Yield Estimation in Complex Scenarios

  • Juanli Jing,
  • Menglin Zhai,
  • Shiqing Dou,
  • Lin Wang,
  • Binghai Lou,
  • Jichi Yan and
  • Shixin Yuan

13 February 2024

The accurate identification of citrus fruits is important for fruit yield estimation in complex citrus orchards. In this study, the YOLOv7-tiny-BVP network is constructed based on the YOLOv7-tiny network, with citrus fruits as the research object. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,223 Views
24 Pages

23 December 2024

As one of the important features in the early stage of fires, the detection of smoke can provide a faster early warning of a fire, thus suppressing the spread of the fire in time. However, the features of smoke are not apparent; the shape of smoke is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,242 Views
16 Pages

In the rapidly evolving electric vehicle industry, the reliability of electronic systems is critical to ensuring vehicle safety and performance. Printed circuit boards (PCBs), serving as a cornerstone in these systems, necessitate efficient and accur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,472 Views
22 Pages

CGADNet: A Lightweight, Real-Time, and Robust Crosswalk and Guide Arrow Detection Network for Complex Scenes

  • Guangxing Wang,
  • Tao Lin,
  • Xiwei Dong,
  • Longchun Wang,
  • Qingming Leng and
  • Seong-Yoon Shin

16 October 2024

In the context of edge environments with constrained resources, realizing real-time and robust crosswalk and guide arrow detection poses a significant challenge for autonomous driving systems. This paper proposes a crosswalk and guide arrow detection...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,770 Views
22 Pages

12 September 2024

Deploying target detection models on edge devices such as UAVs is challenging due to their limited size and computational capacity, while target detection models typically require significant computational resources. To address this issue, this study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
937 Views
21 Pages

An Improved Lightweight Model for Protected Wildlife Detection in Camera Trap Images

  • Zengjie Du,
  • Dasheng Wu,
  • Qingqing Wen,
  • Fengya Xu,
  • Zhongbin Liu,
  • Cheng Li and
  • Ruikang Luo

2 December 2025

Effective monitoring of protected wildlife is crucial for biodiversity conservation. While camera traps provide valuable data for ecological observation, existing deep learning models often suffer from low accuracy in detecting rare species and high...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,825 Views
17 Pages

Aiming at the problems of the underwater existence of some targets with relatively small size, low contrast, and a lot of surrounding interference information, which lead to a high leakage rate and low recognition accuracy, a new improved YOLOv7 unde...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,618 Views
20 Pages

SS-YOLO: A Lightweight Deep Learning Model Focused on Side-Scan Sonar Target Detection

  • Na Yang,
  • Guoyu Li,
  • Shengli Wang,
  • Zhengrong Wei,
  • Hu Ren,
  • Xiaobo Zhang and
  • Yanliang Pei

As seabed exploration activities increase, side-scan sonar (SSS) is being used more widely. However, distortion and noise during the acoustic pulse’s travel through water can blur target details and cause feature loss in images, making target r...

  • 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
1 Citations
1,024 Views
19 Pages

Optimized Adaptive Multi-Scale Architecture for Surface Defect Recognition

  • Xueli Chang,
  • Yue Wang,
  • Heping Zhang,
  • Bogdan Adamyk and
  • Lingyu Yan

20 August 2025

Detection of defects on steel surface is crucial for industrial quality control. To address the issues of structural complexity, high parameter volume, and poor real-time performance in current detection models, this study proposes a lightweight mode...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
3,340 Views
22 Pages

Seedling-YOLO: High-Efficiency Target Detection Algorithm for Field Broccoli Seedling Transplanting Quality Based on YOLOv7-Tiny

  • Tengfei Zhang,
  • Jinhao Zhou,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Rencai Yue,
  • Mengjiao Yao,
  • Jiawei Shi and
  • Jianping Hu

28 April 2024

The rapid and accurate detection of broccoli seedling planting quality is crucial for the implementation of robotic intelligent field management. However, existing algorithms often face issues of false detections and missed detections when identifyin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,541 Views
23 Pages

FIRE-YOLOv8s: A Lightweight and Efficient Algorithm for Tunnel Fire Detection

  • Lingyu Bu,
  • Wenfeng Li,
  • Hongmin Zhang,
  • Hong Wang,
  • Qianqian Tian and
  • Yunteng Zhou

24 March 2025

To address the challenges of high algorithmic complexity and low accuracy in current fire detection algorithms for highway tunnel scenarios, this paper proposes a lightweight tunnel fire detection algorithm, FIRE-YOLOv8s. First, a novel feature extra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,342 Views
19 Pages

GPC-YOLO: An Improved Lightweight YOLOv8n Network for the Detection of Tomato Maturity in Unstructured Natural Environments

  • Yaolin Dong,
  • Jinwei Qiao,
  • Na Liu,
  • Yunze He,
  • Shuzan Li,
  • Xucai Hu,
  • Chengyan Yu and
  • Chengyu Zhang

28 February 2025

Effective fruit identification and maturity detection are important for harvesting and managing tomatoes. Current deep learning detection algorithms typically demand significant computational resources and memory. Detecting severely stacked and obscu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,925 Views
15 Pages

YOLO v7-ECA-PConv-NWD Detects Defective Insulators on Transmission Lines

  • Jianrui Zhang,
  • Xia Wei,
  • Linxuan Zhang,
  • Libin Yu,
  • Yannan Chen and
  • Meiqi Tu

20 September 2023

This paper proposes an enhanced YOLO v7-based method for detecting insulator defects in transmission lines, addressing the challenges of low accuracy and high leakage rates caused by complex backgrounds and electric poles alongside varying sizes of i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,193 Views
22 Pages

A Lightweight Citrus Object Detection Method in Complex Environments

  • Qiurong Lv,
  • Fuchun Sun,
  • Yuechao Bian,
  • Haorong Wu,
  • Xiaoxiao Li,
  • Xin Li and
  • Jie Zhou

Aiming at the limitations of current citrus detection methods in complex orchard environments, especially the problems of poor model adaptability and high computational complexity under different lighting, multiple occlusions, and dense fruit conditi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,052 Views
18 Pages

GSCEU-Net: An End-to-End Lightweight Skin Lesion Segmentation Model with Feature Fusion Based on U-Net Enhancements

  • Shengnan Hao,
  • Haotian Wu,
  • Yanyan Jiang,
  • Zhanlin Ji,
  • Li Zhao,
  • Linyun Liu and
  • Ivan Ganchev

1 September 2023

Accurate segmentation of lesions can provide strong evidence for early skin cancer diagnosis by doctors, enabling timely treatment of patients and effectively reducing cancer mortality rates. In recent years, some deep learning models have utilized c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,171 Views
19 Pages

Broiler Behavior Detection and Tracking Method Based on Lightweight Transformer

  • Haixia Qi,
  • Zihong Chen,
  • Guangsheng Liang,
  • Riyao Chen,
  • Jinzhuo Jiang and
  • Xiwen Luo

18 March 2025

Detecting the daily behavior of broiler chickens allows early detection of irregular activity patterns and, thus, problems in the flock. In an attempt to resolve the problems of the slow detection speed, low accuracy, and poor generalization ability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,183 Views
21 Pages

15 May 2025

The mine air door is the primary facility for regulating airflow and controlling the passage of personnel and vehicles. Intelligent monitoring of personnel and vehicles within the mine air door system is a crucial measure to ensure the safety of mine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,672 Views
18 Pages

20 March 2025

To tackle the issues of small target sizes, missed detections, and false alarms in aerial drone imagery, alongside the constraints posed by limited hardware resources during model deployment, a streamlined object detection approach is proposed to enh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,644 Views
19 Pages

EFC-YOLO: An Efficient Surface-Defect-Detection Algorithm for Steel Strips

  • Yanshun Li,
  • Shuobo Xu,
  • Zhenfang Zhu,
  • Peng Wang,
  • Kefeng Li,
  • Qiang He and
  • Quanfeng Zheng

2 September 2023

The pursuit of higher recognition accuracy and speed with smaller model sizes has been a major research topic in the detection of surface defects in steel. In this paper, we propose an improved high-speed and high-precision Efficient Fusion Coordinat...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,691 Views
21 Pages

1 October 2024

The precise detection of Chinese bayberry locations using object detection technology is a crucial step to achieve unmanned harvesting of these berries. Because of the small size and easy occlusion of bayberry fruit, the existing detection algorithms...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,093 Views
23 Pages

Intelligent Identification of Tea Plant Seedlings Under High-Temperature Conditions via YOLOv11-MEIP Model Based on Chlorophyll Fluorescence Imaging

  • Chun Wang,
  • Zejun Wang,
  • Lijiao Chen,
  • Weihao Liu,
  • Xinghua Wang,
  • Zhiyong Cao,
  • Jinyan Zhao,
  • Man Zou,
  • Hongxu Li and
  • Baijuan Wang
  • + 1 author

27 June 2025

To achieve an efficient, non-destructive, and intelligent identification of tea plant seedlings under high-temperature stress, this study proposes an improved YOLOv11 model based on chlorophyll fluorescence imaging technology for intelligent identifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,433 Views
31 Pages

27 November 2023

Forest fires pose severe challenges to forest management because of their unpredictability, extensive harm, broad impact, and rescue complexities. Early smoke detection is pivotal for prompt intervention and damage mitigation. Combining deep learning...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,980 Views
19 Pages

29 July 2025

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used for road infrastructure inspection and monitoring. However, challenges such as scale variation, complex background interference, and the scarcity of annotated UAV datasets limit the performance of...

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

3 December 2024

The safety inspection system for the underside of vehicles demands both high detection speed and accuracy, necessitating a model with small parameters and high network efficiency. To address these issues and improve the real-time performance of under...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,816 Views
27 Pages

LTSCD-YOLO: A Lightweight Algorithm for Detecting Typical Satellite Components Based on Improved YOLOv8

  • Zixuan Tang,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Junlin Li,
  • Ran Liu,
  • Yansong Xu,
  • Siyu Chen,
  • Zhiyue Fang and
  • Fuchenglong Zhao

22 August 2024

Typical satellite component detection is an application-valuable and challenging research field. Currently, there are many algorithms for detecting typical satellite components, but due to the limited storage space and computational resources in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
185 Views
23 Pages

Improved Lightweight Marine Oil Spill Detection Using the YOLOv8 Algorithm

  • Jianting Shi,
  • Tianyu Jiao,
  • Daniel P. Ames,
  • Yinan Chen and
  • Zhonghua Xie

12 January 2026

Marine oil spill detection using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is crucial but challenged by dynamic marine conditions, diverse spill scales, and limitations in existing algorithms regarding model size and real-time performance. To address these chal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,984 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,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
908 Views
25 Pages

LWCD-YOLO: A Lightweight Corn Seed Kernel Fast Detection Algorithm Based on YOLOv11n

  • Wenbin Sun,
  • Kang Xu,
  • Dongquan Chen,
  • Danyang Lv,
  • Ranbing Yang,
  • Songmei Yang,
  • Rong Wang,
  • Ling Wang and
  • Lu Chen

18 September 2025

As one of the world’s most important staple crops providing food, feed, and industrial raw materials, corn requires precise kernel detection for seed phenotype analysis and seed quality examination. In order to achieve precise and rapid detecti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,256 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,719 Views
26 Pages

Research on Apple Detection and Tracking Count in Complex Scenes Based on the Improved YOLOv7-Tiny-PDE

  • Dongxuan Cao,
  • Wei Luo,
  • Ruiyin Tang,
  • Yuyan Liu,
  • Jiasen Zhao,
  • Xuqing Li and
  • Lihua Yuan

24 February 2025

Accurately detecting apple fruit can crucially assist in estimating the fruit yield in apple orchards in complex scenarios. In such environments, the factors of density, leaf occlusion, and fruit overlap can affect the detection and counting accuracy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,078 Views
17 Pages

Underwater biological object detection plays a critical role in intelligent ocean monitoring and underwater robotic perception systems. However, challenges such as image blurring, complex lighting conditions, and significant variations in object scal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,651 Views
17 Pages

FastQAFPN-YOLOv8s-Based Method for Rapid and Lightweight Detection of Walnut Unseparated Material

  • Junqiu Li,
  • Jiayi Wang,
  • Dexiao Kong,
  • Qinghui Zhang and
  • Zhenping Qiang

2 December 2024

Walnuts possess significant nutritional and economic value. Fast and accurate sorting of shells and kernels will enhance the efficiency of automated production. Therefore, we propose a FastQAFPN-YOLOv8s object detection network to achieve rapid and p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,210 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...