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Automated Fish Maw Authenticity Detection Using a Lightweight YOLO Framework
Driven by the worldwide surge in fish maw commerce, authenticity verification has emerged as an urgent concern due to mounting adulteration incidents. Conventional approaches to verification—whether sensory-based, chemically oriented, or molecular—suffer from practical deployment constraints. The present study reframes fish maw genuineness assessment as a detection task within the object recognition paradigm and introduces RDT-YOLO, a streamlined detection model grounded in YOLO11n architecture. Addressing the twin difficulties of insufficient nuanced texture representation and processing overhead in this domain, we engineer hierarchically structured reparameterized modules for feature extraction that deploy reparameterization tactics to amplify multi-resolution texture discrimination. To counteract degradation of information arising during cross-scale feature merging, a Dynamic Adaptive Multi-Scale Pyramid Processing (DAMSPP) component is devised, integrating adaptive convolution dynamics that facilitate responsive feature synthesis. Concurrently, an Adaptive Task-Aligned Detection Head (ATADH) is formulated, fusing interactive task mechanisms with weight-shared convolutions to achieve parameter economy alongside precision gains. Moreover, Wise-ShapeIoU, a novel loss formulation, is constructed by injecting Wise-IoU's focusing coefficient into the Shape-IoU framework, thereby sharpening detection fidelity through refined contour alignment. Benchmark experiments confirm that RDT-YOLO delivers precision of 91.9%, recall of 89.6%, and [email protected] of 94% while slashing parameter count, storage footprint, and FLOPs by 75.6%, 73.8%, and 63.8%, respectively, against YOLO11s. Comparative trials versus YOLOv10s and YOLOv12s reveal [email protected] elevations of 0.8 and 0.5 percentage points. This investigation furnishes an automated pipeline for verifying fish maw genuineness, bearing implications extending across food integrity applications.
Journal of Intelligent Agriculture and Food Systems
Original Research | Open access | 15 March 2022 | Article: 48

Enhanced YOLOv9-GSSA Network for Efficient Detection of Soybean Seedlings and Weeds under Field Conditions
Real-time tracking of soybean seedling development demands an efficient approach for correctly recognizing seedlings and eliminating weeds. Difficulties stem from the tiny scale and shape-based likeness between seedlings and weeds, which makes standard detection techniques more complex. In response to these issues, a real-time detection framework termed YOLOv9-GSSA is introduced. A refined Mosaic-Dense algorithm boosts object concentration at the input stage of the model, improving its power to capture subtle features. Additionally, a neck optimization component called GSSA, integrating GSConv with Gated Self-Attention, aids essential information extraction and the exchange of features across scales. The Swin-GSSA prediction head further draws on spatial positioning cues, enabling better small object recognition and resolution of overlapping occlusion. Tests reveal that our model secures a mAP of 47.5% with a per-image detection speed of 23.42 ms, making it viable for real-time surveillance. The upgraded model notably strengthens the recognition of soybean seedlings and weeds, functioning as a useful asset for efficient farmland oversight. This ultimately contributes to precise yield forecasting and informed choices in precision agriculture.
Journal of Intelligent Agriculture and Food Systems
Original Research | Open access | 15 March 2022 | Article: 53

Real-Time Automated Grading of Canola Kernels Using an Enhanced YOLOv7 Network
Grain buyers reject canola kernels that have been heated or remain immature due to excessive drying or frost exposure, as these defects reduce both oil extraction rates and commercial value. The current grading protocol relies on visually inspecting each seed's endosperm hue and manually tallying the damaged specimens. Given that this method is tedious, labour-intensive, and prone to human error, the present work proposes an automated grading pipeline based on object detection, multi-object tracking, and enumeration. The detection phase was accomplished using a refined YOLOv7 architecture (YOLOv7_ours), which was adapted to bolster its small-object recognition accuracy by embedding two convolutional block attention modules into the neck section, while simultaneously lowering its computational demand (cost) and footprint by swapping conventional convolutional layers for ghost layers across all Efficient Layer Aggregation Networks modules and within the Spatial Pyramid Pooling Cross Stage Partial module native to YOLOv7. The trained network parameters were then passed to the ByteTrack multiple-object tracker, enabling frame-by-frame tracking of detections throughout a video sequence. The distinct identifiers generated by the tracker for each target of interest were subsequently used to tabulate defect counts using a line-crossing procedure. Following training, the YOLOv7_ours model delivered a mean average precision ([email protected]) that was 1.02% superior, alongside a 32.1% reduction in cost and a 37.1% reduction in size relative to the baseline YOLOv7 model. Assessed on a test video, the full pipeline achieved a multi-object tracking accuracy of 84.8% and a counting accuracy of 93.9%. This three-component framework is ready for integration into edge devices, enabling grain buyers to precisely grade canola kernels in real time.
Journal of Intelligent Agriculture and Food Systems
Original Research | Open access | 15 March 2025 | Article: 114