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LSR-YOLO: A lightweight and fast model for retail products detection.
Yawen Zhao1, Mahmud Iwan Solihin1, Defu Yang2
1Faculty of Engineering, Technology and Built Environment, UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
This study introduces LSR-YOLO, a lightweight object detection model for retail AI. It significantly boosts inference speed and reduces computational cost for real-time applications.
Area of Science:
- Computer Vision
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
Background:
- Deep learning object detection enhances retail product identification.
- Existing methods face challenges with high computational costs and slow speeds.
- Need for efficient models in smart cities and intelligent devices.
Purpose of the Study:
- Propose LSR-YOLO, a lightweight object detection framework based on YOLOv8n.
- Optimize the model for deployment in robots and intelligent devices.
- Improve inference speed and reduce computational load for real-time retail applications.
Main Methods:
- Developed LSR-YOLO with architectural optimizations, including the CSPHet-CBAM attention module.
- Implemented a channel pruning algorithm to reduce model redundancy.
- Evaluated performance on the Locount and COCO datasets.
Main Results:
- LSR-YOLO achieved 357.1 FPS inference speed on the Locount dataset.
- The model reached mAP50 of 72.2% and mAP50-95 of 47.8%.
- Demonstrated a 246.7 FPS increase over YOLOv8n with significantly fewer parameters and GFLOPs.
Conclusions:
- LSR-YOLO offers superior accuracy and computational efficiency for real-time retail object detection.
- The model's lightweight design and high speed make it suitable for resource-constrained devices.
- Validated generalization ability on the COCO dataset, confirming its practical applicability.

