An improved algorithm for sesame seedling and weed detection based on YOLOV7

Autor: Yu, Gan, Sun, Huimin, Xiao, Zhuolei, Dai, Chaoyue
Zdroj: International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing; 2024, Vol. 26 Issue: 3 p282-290, 9p
Abstrakt: Sesame is a widely cultivated oilseed and edible crop with significant economic and nutritional value. Weed infestation is a primary factor that hinders sesame growth, and effective weed control is crucial for optimal sesame yield. Accurate identification of sesame seedlings and weeds can guide intelligent devices to improve weed control. However, low recognition accuracy and high miss-detection rates persist as major issues. To address these challenges, we propose the YOLOV7-G algorithm, which builds upon the YOLOV7 baseline network. Our approach integrates the SimAM attention mechanism in the feature extraction structure to focus the model on the morphological features of weeds and incorporates the C3 module into the backbone network to increase the perceptual field range. We also employ the SPPFCSPC module in the Neck part to replace convolutional kernels of different sizes with stacked 5×5 convolutional kernels to reduce computational effort while maintaining the original perceptual field. Finally, we utilise the Focal-SIoU loss function to improve the regression accuracy of the prediction frame. Experimental results demonstrate that the YOLOV7-G algorithm out-performs YOLOV7, achieving a 17% increase in average precision a 5.1% increase in mAP@0.5.
Databáze: Supplemental Index