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One application of artificial intelligence in agriculture is the use of machines to detect fruits and evaluate yield. Due to the small size and color of green walnuts similar to leaves, it is important to develop a method that detects walnuts quickly and accurately. Motivated by this issue, we propose a solution using the improved YOLOv7 model and use the improved model for detection and identification. We constructed a dataset with data augmentation to help with this study, containing a total of 10,550 images, including green walnuts from different angles. We used Precision, Recall, F-Measure, and mean Average Precision as the accuracy indexes of the model. Add the Transformer model, the ResNet network, and the SimAm attention mechanism to the network structure of the YOLOv7 model to improve the detection capability of the model. Compared to the YOLOv7 model without improvements, P increased by 1.5%, R increased by 1.3%, F1 increased by 1%, and mAP increased by 1.5%. Compared with other target detection models, the accuracy indexes show better results. This method can maintain high precision in walnut identification and detection and can provide technical support to the machine to recognize walnuts in a complex environment quickly and for a long time. The dataset is publicly available on Github: https://github.com/lunchc/Walnut.
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This work is supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant No. 61902339, by the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China under grants No. 2021JM-418, by Yan’an Special Foundation for Science and Technology (2019-01, 2019-13).
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He, J., Liu, Y., Zhai, L., Liu, H. (2024). Detection of Green Walnuts on Trees Using the Improved YOLOv7 Model. In: Li, J., Zhang, B., Ying, Y. (eds) 6GN for Future Wireless Networks. 6GN 2023. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 554. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53404-1_1
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