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Henglong Lin1,2, Huajie Xue3, Jingru Gong3
1College of Mechanical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China.
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
|October 16, 2025
Summary
This study introduces a rapid identification system using peristaltic pest signals and a deep learning model (RDVNet) to improve wood-boring pest detection in timber customs inspections, significantly enhancing efficiency and reducing costs.
Area of Science:
- Agricultural Entomology
- Biotechnology
- Computer Science
Background:
- Current timber customs inspection for wood-boring pests relies on inefficient manual visual methods.
- Manual inspection suffers from long detection times, high labor costs, and reliance on human experience.
- Existing methods struggle to meet the demands of efficient and intelligent customs quarantine.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop a rapid identification system for wood-boring pests using their peristaltic signals.
- To improve the efficiency and accuracy of customs quarantine for timber.
- To leverage deep learning for automated pest detection.
Main Methods:
- A hardware-software system (LabVIEW) collected pest peristaltic signals.
- Signals were processed, converted to audio, and features extracted using MFCC, PNCC, and RASTA-PLP.
- A Residual Denoising Vision Network (RDVNet) with multi-attention mechanisms was developed and trained.
- The denoising module (de-RDVNet) and classification performance were compared against established models.
Main Results:
- Power-Normalized Cepstral Coefficients (PNCC) demonstrated comprehensive feature extraction.
- The de-RDVNet achieved superior denoising performance with PNCC input (PSNR: 29.8, SSIM: 0.820).
- The RDVNet model achieved high classification accuracy (92.8%) and F1 score (0.878).
Conclusions:
- The developed peristaltic signal identification system effectively improves detection efficiency for wood-boring pests in timber.
- The RDVNet model shows significant potential for intelligent customs quarantine applications.
- This system offers practical value by reducing labor costs and enhancing detection speed.
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