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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

YOLO-ALW: An Enhanced High-Precision Model for Chili Maturity Detection.

Yi Wang, Cheng Ouyang, Hao Peng, Jingtao Deng, Lin Yang, Hailin Chen, Yahui Luo, Ping Jiang

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Yi WangCollege of Information and Intelligence, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China.
Cheng OuyangCollege of Information and Intelligence, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China.
Hao PengCollege of Information and Intelligence, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China.
Jingtao DengCollege of Information and Intelligence, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China.
Lin YangCollege of Information and Intelligence, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China.
Hailin ChenCollege of Information and Intelligence, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China.ORCID 0009-0004-4192-1620
Yahui LuoCollege of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China.
Ping JiangCollege of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China.

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Abstract

Chili pepper, a widely cultivated and consumed crop, faces challenges in accurately determining maturity due to issues such as occlusion, small target size, and similarity between fruit color and background. This study presents an enhanced YOLOv8n-based object detection model, YOLO-ALW, designed to address these challenges. The model introduces the AKConv (Alterable Kernel Convolution) module in the head section, which adaptively adjusts the convolution kernel shape and size based on the target and scene, improving detection performance under occlusion and dense environments. In the backbone, the SPPF_LSKA (Spatial Pyramid Pooling Fast-Large Separable Kernel Attention) module enhances the integration of multi-scale features, facilitating accurate differentiation of peppers at various maturity stages while maintaining low computational complexity. Additionally, the Wise-IoU (Wise Intersection over Union) loss function optimizes bounding box learning, further improving the detection of peppers in occluded or background-similar scenarios. Experimental results demonstrate that YOLO-ALW achieves a mean average precision (mAP

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CapsicumFruitAlgorithmsattention mechanismdeep learningfruit detectionpepper maturity recognitionYOLOv8n

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