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ArticleFrontiers in plant science2024

The grading detection model for fingered citron slices (citrus medica 'fingered') based on YOLOv8-FCS.

Lingtao Zhang, Pu Luo, Shaoyun Ding, Tingxuan Li, Kebei Qin, Jiong Mu

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Lingtao ZhangCollege of Information Engineering, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, China.
Pu LuoCollege of Information Engineering, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, China.
Shaoyun DingCollege of Information Engineering, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, China.
Tingxuan LiCollege of Information Engineering, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, China.
Kebei QinCollege of Information Engineering, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, China.
Jiong MuCollege of Information Engineering, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, China.

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Introduction: Fingered citron slices possess significant nutritional value and economic advantages as herbal products that are experiencing increasing demand. The grading of fingered citron slices plays a crucial role in the marketing strategy to maximize profits. However, due to the limited adoption of standardization practices and the decentralized structure of producers and distributors, the grading process of fingered citron slices requires substantial manpower and lead to a reduction in profitability. In order to provide authoritative, rapid and accurate grading standards for the market of fingered citron slices, this paper proposes a grading detection model for fingered citron slices based on improved YOLOv8n. Methods: Firstly, we obtained the raw materials of fingered citron slices from a dealer of Sichuan fingered citron origin in Shimian County, Ya'an City, Sichuan Province, China. Subsequently, high-resolution fingered citron slices images were taken using an experimental bench, and the dataset for grading detection of fingered citron slices was formed after manual screening and labelling. Based on this dataset, we chose YOLOv8n as the base model, and then replaced the YOLOv8n backbone structure with the Fasternet main module to improve the computational efficiency in the feature extraction process. Then we redesigned the PAN-FPN structure used in the original model with BiFPN structure to make full use of the high-resolution features to extend the sensory field of the model while balancing the computation amount and model volume, and finally we get the improved target detection algorithm YOLOv8-FCS. Results: The findings from the experiments indicated that this approach surpassed the conventional RT-DETR, Faster R-CNN, SSD300 and YOLOv8n models in most evaluation indicators. The experimental results show that the grading accuracy of the YOLOv8-FCS model reaches 98.1%, and the model size is only 6.4 M, and the FPS is 130.3. Discussion: The results suggest that our model offers both rapid and precise grading for fingered citron slices, holding significant practical value for promoting the advancement of automated grading systems tailored to fingered citron slices.

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