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Lightweight highland barley detection based on improved YOLOv5.

Minghui Cai^1,2, Hui Deng³, Jianwei Cai^1,2

¹College of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, Fujian, China.

|March 25, 2025

Summary

This study introduces a lightweight YOLOv5 model for accurate highland barley spike detection using UAV images. The improved model enhances precision and recall while significantly reducing computational load for real-time agricultural applications.

Keywords:

Highland barley Lightweight Object detection UAV YOLOv5

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Area of Science:

Agricultural Science
Computer Vision
Remote Sensing

Background:

Accurate assessment of highland barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) density is vital for optimizing cultivation.
Challenges in UAV image analysis include overlapping spikes and high computational demands, hindering real-time detection.
Existing object detection models may not be sufficiently lightweight or accurate for field deployment.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop an improved, lightweight YOLOv5 model for efficient and accurate highland barley spike detection from UAV imagery.
To reduce model complexity and computational requirements for real-time processing.
To enhance detection performance in complex backgrounds and varying growth stages.

Main Methods:

Utilized depthwise separable convolution (DSConv) and ghost convolution (GhostConv) in the backbone and neck networks.
Integrated the convolutional block attention module (CBAM) to improve focus on target objects.
Evaluated the model's performance against baseline YOLOv5n and other mainstream object detection algorithms.

Main Results:

Achieved significant improvements in precision (92.2%) and recall (86.2%), with an F1 score of 0.892.
The model demonstrated high accuracy ( of 93.1%) across growth and maturation stages.
Reduced parameters by 70.6% and FLOPs by 75.6% compared to YOLOv5n, enabling lightweight deployment.
Outperformed Faster R-CNN, Mask R-CNN, RetinaNet, YOLOv7, and YOLOv8 in accuracy and efficiency.

Conclusions:

The improved lightweight YOLOv5 model offers superior detection accuracy and computational efficiency for highland barley spike detection.
The model's reduced complexity facilitates real-time deployment in agricultural management systems.
Further research is needed to address limitations in varying lighting conditions and annotation reliance for broader generalization.