YOLO-PGC: A Tomato Maturity Detection Algorithm Based on Improved YOLOv11
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Abstract
Accurate tomato maturity detection represents a critical challenge in precision agriculture. A YOLOv11-based algorithm named YOLO-PGC is proposed in this study for tomato maturity detection. Its three innovative components are denoted by “PGC”, respectively representing the Polarization State Space Strategy with Dynamic Weight Allocation, the Global Horizontal–Vertical Context Module, and the Convolutional–Inductive Feature Fusion Module. The Polarization Strategy enhances robustness against occlusion through adaptive feature importance modulation, he Global Context Module integrates cross-dimensional attention mechanisms with hierarchical feature extraction, and the Convolutional–Inductive Feature Fusion Module employs multimodal integration for improved object discrimination in complex scenes. Experimental results demonstrate that YOLO-PGC achieves superior precision and mean average precision compared to state-of-the-art methods. Validation on the COCO benchmark confirms the framework’s generalization capabilities, maintaining computational efficiency for real-time deployment. YOLO-PGC establishes new performance standards for agricultural object detection with potential applications in similar computer vision challenges. Overall, these components and strategies are integrated into YOLO-PGC to achieve robust object detection in complex scenarios.
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OpenAlex topics: Smart Agriculture and AI · Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses · Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
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Affiliations
The School of Computer, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810008, China
Shandong Facility Horticulture Bioengineering Research Center, Weifang University of Science and Technology, Weifang 262700, China
The State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Intelligence, Xining 810008, China
The Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Tibetan Information Processing, Xining 810008, China
Funding
Natural Science Foundation of Qinghai Province, China · National Natural Science Foundation of China · ‘111’Project, China · McCollum Endowed Chair startup fund at Baylor University, China
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