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  • Open Access
494 Views
26 Pages

Lightweight Fire and Smoke Detection with YOLO11: A Two-Benchmark, Multi-Seed Study of Wise-IoU and GhostConv

  • Tang Tang,
  • Xinsheng Jiang,
  • Biao He,
  • Dongliang Zhou,
  • Run Li,
  • Keyu Lin and
  • Yunxiong Cai

6 September 2026

Vision-based fire and smoke detection must be both accurate and lightweight for edge cameras and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Most lightweight fire detectors, however, are validated on a single dataset from a single run, which leaves the accuracy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
7,218 Views
21 Pages

12 December 2023

Intelligent traffic systems represent one of the crucial domains in today’s world, aiming to enhance traffic management efficiency and road safety. However, current intelligent traffic systems still face various challenges, particularly in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
5,940 Views
15 Pages

DSW-YOLOv8n: A New Underwater Target Detection Algorithm Based on Improved YOLOv8n

  • Qiang Liu,
  • Wei Huang,
  • Xiaoqiu Duan,
  • Jianghao Wei,
  • Tao Hu,
  • Jie Yu and
  • Jiahuan Huang

15 September 2023

Underwater target detection is widely used in various applications such as underwater search and rescue, underwater environment monitoring, and marine resource surveying. However, the complex underwater environment, including factors such as light ch...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances and Applications of Computer Vision in Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,141 Views
25 Pages

TLI-YOLOv5: A Lightweight Object Detection Framework for Transmission Line Inspection by Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

  • Hanqiang Huang,
  • Guiwen Lan,
  • Jia Wei,
  • Zhan Zhong,
  • Zirui Xu,
  • Dongbo Li and
  • Fengfan Zou

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become an important tool for transmission line inspection, and the inspection images taken by UAVs often contain complex backgrounds and many types of targets, which poses many challenges to object detection algor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pattern Recognition and Sensor Fusion Solutions in Intelligent Sensor Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
6,162 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...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,799 Views
16 Pages

Old Landslide Detection Using Optical Remote Sensing Images Based on Improved YOLOv8

  • Yunlong Li,
  • Mingtao Ding,
  • Qian Zhang,
  • Zhihui Luo,
  • Wubiao Huang,
  • Cancan Zhang and
  • Hui Jiang

28 January 2024

The reactivation of old landslides can be triggered by heavy destructive earthquakes, heavy rainfall, and ongoing human activities, thereby resulting in the occurrence of secondary landslides. However, most existing models are designed for detecting...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Approaches for Remote Sensing Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
509 Views
21 Pages

20 June 2026

Accurate and efficient detection of cyanobacteria in microscopic images is important for automated water-quality monitoring, but remains challenging because of complex aquatic backgrounds, large scale variation, and uneven sample quality. This study...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biology, Ecology and Management of Harmful Algae)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,626 Views
19 Pages

16 December 2024

Vending machines have evolved into a critical element of the intelligent healthcare service system. To enhance the precision of pill box detection counting and cater to the lightweight requirements of its internal embedded controller for deep learnin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,107 Views
17 Pages

14 June 2024

To address the current steel surface defect detection algorithms in practical applications involving low detection accuracy, an efficient and highly accurate strip steel surface defect detection algorithm, DEW-YOLO, is proposed in this paper. Firstly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
974 Views
16 Pages

Pipelines are critical infrastructures in both industrial production and daily life. However, defects frequently arise due to environmental and manufacturing factors, which may lead to severe safety risks. To overcome the limitations of traditional o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, and Deep Learning Technologies: Methodologies and Applications, 2nd Edition)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,622 Views
21 Pages

25 February 2024

Accurate and fast detection of traffic sign information is vital for autonomous driving systems. However, the YOLOv5 algorithm faces challenges with low accuracy and slow detection when it is used for traffic sign detection. To address these shortcom...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Computer Vision, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,853 Views
21 Pages

Optical Remote Sensing Ship Recognition and Classification Based on Improved YOLOv5

  • Jun Jian,
  • Long Liu,
  • Yingxiang Zhang,
  • Ke Xu and
  • Jiaxuan Yang

1 September 2023

Due to the special characteristics of the shooting distance and angle of remote sensing satellites, the pixel area of ship targets is small, and the feature expression is insufficient, which leads to unsatisfactory ship detection performance and even...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing for Maritime Monitoring and Vessel Identification)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,751 Views
19 Pages

Pine-YOLO: A Method for Detecting Pine Wilt Disease in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Remote Sensing Images

  • Junsheng Yao,
  • Bin Song,
  • Xuanyu Chen,
  • Mengqi Zhang,
  • Xiaotong Dong,
  • Huiwen Liu,
  • Fangchao Liu,
  • Li Zhang,
  • Yingbo Lu and
  • Ran Kang
  • + 1 author

23 April 2024

Pine wilt disease is a highly contagious forest quarantine ailment that spreads rapidly. In this study, we designed a new Pine-YOLO model for pine wilt disease detection by incorporating Dynamic Snake Convolution (DSConv), the Multidimensional Collab...

(This article belongs to the Topic Individual Tree Detection (ITD) and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
411 Views
21 Pages

To address the low efficiency and high subjectivity of manual inspection of Astragalus slices, as well as the limited fine-grained detection accuracy caused by the visual similarity between the characteristic radial “chrysanthemum heart”...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors and Computer Vision for Quality Assessment of Agricultural Products)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,647 Views
17 Pages

20 February 2025

With the increasing demand for road defect detection, existing deep learning methods have made significant progress in terms of accuracy and speed. However, challenges remain, such as insufficient detection precision for detection precision for road...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
899 Views
28 Pages

SAW-YOLOv8l: An Enhanced Sewer Pipe Defect Detection Model for Sustainable Urban Drainage Infrastructure Management

  • Linna Hu,
  • Hao Li,
  • Jiahao Guo,
  • Penghao Xue,
  • Weixian Zha,
  • Shihan Sun,
  • Bin Guo and
  • Yanping Kang

8 April 2026

Urban underground sewage pipelines often suffer from defects such as cracks, irregular joint misalignment, and stratified sedimentation blockages, which may lead to pipeline bursts, sewage overflow, and water pollution. Timely detection of abnormal d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,564 Views
19 Pages

11 August 2025

Seed-level disease detection in soybeans presents significant challenges, including small-sample limitations, spectral interference, and dense occlusions, which are less pronounced in leaf-level analysis. To overcome these obstacles, we propose YOLOv...

(This article belongs to the Section Smart Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,087 Views
22 Pages

30 June 2025

The occurrence of construction site fires is consistently accompanied by casualties and property damage. To address the issues of large target-scale variations and frequent false detections in construction site fire monitoring, we propose a fire dete...

(This article belongs to the Topic AI for Natural Disasters Detection, Prediction and Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,428 Views
18 Pages

SRW-YOLO: A Detection Model for Environmental Risk Factors During the Grid Construction Phase

  • Yu Zhao,
  • Fei Liu,
  • Qiang He,
  • Fang Liu,
  • Xiaohu Sun and
  • Jiyong Zhang

24 July 2025

With the rapid advancement of UAV-based remote sensing and image recognition techniques, identifying environmental risk factors from aerial imagery has emerged as a focal point in intelligent inspection during the power transmission and distribution...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,792 Views
23 Pages

5 November 2024

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery is widely utilized in military and civilian applications. Recent deep learning advancements have led to improved ship detection algorithms, enhancing accuracy and speed over traditional Constant False-Alarm Rate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Remote Sensing for Earth Observation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,078 Views
22 Pages

Accurate Pose Detection Method for Rail Fastener Clips Based on Improved YOLOv8-Pose

  • Defang Lv,
  • Jianjun Meng,
  • Zhenhan Ren,
  • Liqing Yao and
  • Gengqi Liu

26 December 2025

Minor displacements and deflections of rail fastener clips pose a critical risk to railway safety, which are difficult to quantify accurately using traditional object detection methods. This paper proposes an improved YOLOv8-pose-based method, You On...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,237 Views
17 Pages

REW-YOLO: A Lightweight Box Detection Method for Logistics

  • Guirong Wang,
  • Shuanglong Li,
  • Xiaojing Zhu,
  • Yuhuai Wang,
  • Jianfang Huang,
  • Yitao Zhong and
  • Zhipeng Wu

Inventory counting of logistics boxes in complex scenarios has always been a core task in intelligent logistics systems. To solve the problems of a high leakage rate and low computational efficiency caused by stacking, occlusion, and rotation in box...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,358 Views
22 Pages

31 October 2024

This study addresses the problem of detecting occluded apples in complex unstructured environments in orchards and proposes an apple detection and segmentation model based on improved YOLOv8n-SGW-YOLOv8n. The model improves apple detection and segmen...

(This article belongs to the Topic Intelligent Agriculture: Perception Technologies and Agricultural Equipment for Crop Production Processes)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,347 Views
17 Pages

9 July 2024

Unmanned aerial vehicle maritime search and rescue target detection is susceptible to external factors, which can seriously reduce detection accuracy. To address these challenges, the DLSW-YOLOv8n algorithm is proposed combining Deformable Large Kern...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Detection, Security, and Communication for UAV)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,289 Views
21 Pages

4 June 2025

An enhanced YOLOv8-based network was developed to accurately and efficiently detect the ripeness of strawberries in complex environments. Firstly, a CA (channel attention) mechanism was integrated into the backbone and head of the YOLOv8 model to imp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future-Proof Solutions for Intelligent and Sustainable Machinery and Equipment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,854 Views
16 Pages

Artemisia Frigida Distribution Mapping in Grassland with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Imagery and Deep Learning

  • Yongcai Wang,
  • Huawei Wan,
  • Zhuowei Hu,
  • Jixi Gao,
  • Chenxi Sun and
  • Bin Yang

15 April 2024

Artemisia frigida, as an important indicator species of grassland degradation, holds significant guidance significance for understanding grassland degradation status and conducting grassland restoration. Therefore, conducting rapid surveys and monito...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers for Drones in Agriculture and Forestry Section)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,345 Views
21 Pages

3 April 2025

Cigarette detection is a crucial component of public safety management. However, detecting such small objects poses significant challenges due to their size and limited feature points. To enhance the accuracy of small target detection, we propose a n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
591 Views
31 Pages

30 July 2026

Camera-based visual sensing provides a non-destructive and scalable approach for monitoring strawberry diseases and pests in greenhouse environments. However, greenhouse images acquired under practical cultivation conditions often contain early-stage...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,783 Views
17 Pages

YOLOv8s-DDA: An Improved Small Traffic Sign Detection Algorithm Based on YOLOv8s

  • Meiqi Niu,
  • Yajun Chen,
  • Jianying Li,
  • Xiaoyang Qiu and
  • Wenhao Cai

22 September 2024

In the realm of traffic sign detection, challenges arise due to the small size of objects, complex scenes, varying scales of signs, and dispersed objects. To address these problems, this paper proposes a small object detection algorithm, YOLOv8s-DDA,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
299 Views
21 Pages

3 September 2026

Automatic classroom student behavior recognition faces three major challenges: the coexistence of small targets and complex backgrounds, the conflict between details and semantics, and the interference from low-quality samples. To address these issue...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,176 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...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
11,231 Views
16 Pages

Enhanced YOLOv8 with BiFPN-SimAM for Precise Defect Detection in Miniature Capacitors

  • Ning Li,
  • Tianrun Ye,
  • Zhihua Zhou,
  • Chunming Gao and
  • Ping Zhang

3 January 2024

In the domain of automatic visual inspection for miniature capacitor quality control, the task of accurately detecting defects presents a formidable challenge. This challenge stems primarily from the small size and limited sample availability of defe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application, Optimization and Architecture of Deep Learning Neural Network)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,721 Views
24 Pages

21 October 2024

The accurate detection and quantification of defects is vital for the effectiveness of the eddy current nondestructive testing (ECNDT) of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) materials. This study investigates the identification and measurement of...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,225 Views
21 Pages

PRC-Light YOLO: An Efficient Lightweight Model for Fabric Defect Detection

  • Baobao Liu,
  • Heying Wang,
  • Zifan Cao,
  • Yu Wang,
  • Lu Tao,
  • Jingjing Yang and
  • Kaibing Zhang

22 January 2024

Defect detection holds significant importance in improving the overall quality of fabric manufacturing. To improve the effectiveness and accuracy of fabric defect detection, we propose the PRC-Light YOLO model for fabric defect detection and establis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Collaborative Learning and Optimization Theory and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,348 Views
17 Pages

20 November 2024

LiDAR and cameras, often regarded as the “eyes” of intelligent driving vehicles, are vulnerable to adverse weather conditions like haze, rain, and snow, compromising driving safety. In order to solve this problem and enhance the environme...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
9,614 Views
21 Pages

ESFD-YOLOv8n: Early Smoke and Fire Detection Method Based on an Improved YOLOv8n Model

  • Dilshodjon Mamadaliev,
  • Philippe Lyonel Mbouembe Touko,
  • Jae-Ho Kim and
  • Suk-Chan Kim

27 August 2024

Ensuring fire safety is essential to protect life and property, but modern infrastructure and complex settings require advanced fire detection methods. Traditional object detection systems, often reliant on manual feature extraction, may fall short,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) Applications in Wildfire Science: Principles, Progress and Prospects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,617 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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Visual Attributes in Computer Vision Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
533 Views
25 Pages

MC-RT-DETR: A Lightweight Real-Time Cotton Top Bud Detection Model Based on Improved RT-DETR

  • Yibulayin Kuwan,
  • Gulinazi Ailimujiang,
  • Xiaolong Qi,
  • Xin Liu,
  • Wangwang Cao and
  • Mayire Hudabaierdi

3 August 2026

Accurate detection of cotton top buds is a key prerequisite for precision topping. However, because of the small size of cotton top buds and their high visual similarity to complex canopy backgrounds, high-efficiency detection in natural fields still...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,658 Views
16 Pages

12 February 2025

This study addresses the challenges of detecting inferior fruits in table grapes in natural environments, focusing on subtle appearance differences, occlusions, and fruit overlaps. We propose an enhanced green grape fruit disease detection model name...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,074 Views
22 Pages

21 October 2025

Accurate segmentation of colorectal polyps is crucial for the early screening and clinical diagnosis of colorectal cancer. However, the diverse morphology of polyps, significant variations in scale, and unstable quality of endoscopic imaging pose ser...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,659 Views
21 Pages

CCW-YOLO: A Modified YOLOv5s Network for Pedestrian Detection in Complex Traffic Scenes

  • Zhaodi Wang,
  • Shuqiang Yang,
  • Huafeng Qin,
  • Yike Liu and
  • Jinyan Ding

1 December 2024

In traffic scenes, pedestrian target detection faces significant issues of misdetection and omission due to factors such as crowd density and obstacle occlusion. To address these challenges and enhance detection accuracy, we propose an improved CCW-Y...

  • Article
  • Open Access

YOLO26-USW: A Slice-Aided Semantic–Detail Fusion Detector for Small Insects in High-Resolution Agricultural Light-Trap Images

  • Bowen Wei,
  • Hongtian Li,
  • Yulu Yang,
  • Xuli Li,
  • Fuzhong Li,
  • Tingfang Zhang and
  • Leifeng Guo

16 October 2026

Detecting small insects in high-resolution agricultural light-trap images is difficult because resizing obscures fine morphology and densely distributed insects often appear similar. We developed YOLO26-USW using PVTv2-B1-based UNet-PVT feature enhan...

(This article belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
6,704 Views
17 Pages

Underwater-YCC: Underwater Target Detection Optimization Algorithm Based on YOLOv7

  • Xiao Chen,
  • Mujiahui Yuan,
  • Qi Yang,
  • Haiyang Yao and
  • Haiyan Wang

Underwater target detection using optical images is a challenging yet promising area that has witnessed significant progress. However, fuzzy distortions and irregular light absorption in the underwater environment often lead to image blur and color b...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Oceanography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,267 Views
19 Pages

29 April 2025

Timely detection and prevention of citrus leaf diseases and pests are crucial for improving citrus yield. To address the issue of low efficiency in citrus disease and pest detection, this paper proposes a lightweight detection model named PEW-YOLO. F...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transfer Learning Methods in Equipment Reliability Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,145 Views
15 Pages

10 September 2025

Addressing the prevalent challenges of inadequate detection accuracy and sluggish detection speed encountered by police patrol robots during security patrols, we propose an innovative algorithm based on the YOLOv8 model. Our method consists of substi...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,332 Views
23 Pages

Target Detection of Diamond Nanostructures Based on Improved YOLOv8 Modeling

  • Fengxiang Guo,
  • Xinyun Guo,
  • Lei Guo,
  • Yibao Wang,
  • Qinhang Wang,
  • Shousheng Liu,
  • Mei Zhang,
  • Lili Zhang and
  • Zhigang Gai

28 June 2024

Boron-doped diamond thin films exhibit extensive applications in chemical sensing, in which the performance could be further enhanced by nano-structuring of the surfaces. In order to discover the relationship between diamond nanostructures and proper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
131 Views
24 Pages

REW-DETR: A Lightweight Real-Time Detection Transformer for Bridge Surface Defect Detection

  • Xiaohui Cheng,
  • Yonghong Pang,
  • Yanjun Wang,
  • Yun Deng and
  • Qiu Lu

10 October 2026

Timely detection of bridge surface defects is important for structural safety assessment and inspection efficiency. To address defect scale variation, complex background interference, and the high computational cost of RT-DETR-R50, this study propose...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,093 Views
26 Pages

29 March 2026

In intelligent transportation systems and urban traffic management, accurate vehicle area intrusion detection based on surveillance imagery plays a critical role in ensuring road safety and operational efficiency. However, under real-world road surve...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
3,875 Views
29 Pages

29 June 2025

UAV-based small target detection is crucial in environmental monitoring, circuit detection, and related applications. However, UAV images often face challenges such as significant scale variation, dense small targets, high inter-class similarity, and...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing for Geospatial Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,373 Views
17 Pages

An Improved YOLOv9s Algorithm for Underwater Object Detection

  • Shize Zhou,
  • Long Wang,
  • Zhuoqun Chen,
  • Hao Zheng,
  • Zhihui Lin and
  • Li He

Monitoring marine life through underwater object detection technology serves as a primary means of understanding biodiversity and ecosystem health. However, the complex marine environment, poor resolution, color distortion in underwater optical imagi...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

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