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TeaBudLiteNet: a lightweight network for detecting tea leaf buds.

Xiaolei Chen¹, Long Wu¹, Xu Yang¹

¹College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, China.

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|January 9, 2026

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This study introduces TeaBudLiteNet, a lightweight object detection model for intelligent tea harvesting. It achieves high accuracy and efficiency for detecting small tea leaf buds in complex environments, making it ideal for smart agriculture devices.

Keywords:

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Area of Science:

Computer Vision
Agricultural Technology
Machine Learning

Background:

Accurate, real-time detection of tea leaf buds is crucial for intelligent tea harvesting and smart agriculture.
Detecting small targets in complex tea plantations is challenging for existing object detection models due to computational complexity and performance limitations.
Resource-constrained devices require lightweight detection frameworks that balance accuracy and efficiency.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a lightweight object detection framework for accurate and efficient tea leaf bud detection.
To address the limitations of existing models in complex tea plantation environments and on resource-constrained devices.

Main Methods:

Proposed TeaBudLiteNet, a novel lightweight object detection model.
Introduced C2f_PConv module integrating PConv efficiency with C2f non-linear representation.
Incorporated SimAM_Slice attention mechanism for enhanced feature weighting and small target detection.
Employed Focaler-IoU_Inner regression loss for dynamic sample optimization and accelerated convergence.

Main Results:

TeaBudLiteNet achieved 90.47% precision, a 2.08% improvement over the baseline.
Model size was reduced by over 90% with only 1,912,947 parameters.
Maintained a high inference speed of 227 frames per second.
Outperformed mainstream detection models in accuracy, size, and speed.

Conclusions:

TeaBudLiteNet effectively reduces model complexity while preserving high detection accuracy and real-time performance.
The lightweight architecture is suitable for deployment on resource-limited smart agricultural devices.
Offers a robust solution for tea leaf bud detection, advancing automated tea harvesting and intelligent agricultural systems.