ArticlePlants (Basel, Switzerland)2024
Improved CSW-YOLO Model for Bitter Melon Phenotype Detection.
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- Phenotypic Variation and Classification of Melon Germplasm Resources Based on DUS Test Characteristics.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Deep learning for construction waste detection using ConvNeXt V2 EMA attention and WIoU v3 loss.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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As a crop with significant medicinal value and nutritional components, the market demand for bitter melon continues to grow. The diversity of bitter melon shapes has a direct impact on its market acceptance and consumer preferences, making precise identification of bitter melon germplasm resources crucial for breeding work. To address the limitations of time-consuming and less accurate traditional manual identification methods, there is a need to enhance the automation and intelligence of bitter melon phenotype detection. This study developed a bitter melon phenotype detection model named CSW-YOLO. By incorporating the ConvNeXt V2 module to replace the backbone network of YOLOv8, the model's focus on critical target features is enhanced. Additionally, the SimAM attention mechanism was introduced to compute attention weights for neurons without increasing the parameter count, further enhancing the model's recognition accuracy. Finally, WIoUv3 was introduced as the bounding box loss function to improve the model's convergence speed and positioning capabilities. The model was trained and tested on a bitter melon image dataset, achieving a precision of 94.6%, a recall of 80.6%, a mAP50 of 96.7%, and an F1 score of 87.04%. These results represent improvements of 8.5%, 0.4%, 11.1%, and 4% in precision, recall, mAP50, and F1 score, respectively, over the original YOLOv8 model. Furthermore, the effectiveness of the improvements was validated through heatmap analysis and ablation experiments, demonstrating that the CSW-YOLO model can more accurately focus on target features, reduce false detection rates, and enhance generalization capabilities. Comparative tests with various mainstream deep learning models also proved the superior performance of CSW-YOLO in bitter melon phenotype detection tasks. This research provides an accurate and reliable method for bitter melon phenotype identification and also offers technical support for the visual detection technologies of other agricultural products.
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