A Lightweight RGB Vision-Based Express Parcel Detection Framework with Active Learning and Quantization-Aware...

This study presents a lightweight RGB vision-based express-parcel detection framework for complex logistics environments. An Express Parcel Recognition (EPR) dataset is first constructed from RGB images acquired through multi-source data collection, followed by unified re-annotation and Active Learning-based pseudo-labeling to reduce manual annotation effort while maintaining label consistency. Based on YOLOv11s, a lightweight detector termed EPR-YOLO is developed by integrating SFAConv and NGAM to strengthen multi-scale feature extraction and global semantic modeling from RGB visual inputs while controlling computational complexity. Quantization-Aware Training is further introduced to obtain an INT8-quantized model with reduced storage requirements and limited accuracy degradation, providing a basis for subsequent lightweight deployment. Comparative experiments, ablation studies, and independent test set evaluations demonstrate that EPR-YOLO achieves an mAP₅₀ of 71.654%, improving the YOLOv11s baseline by 0.854 percentage points while reducing the parameter count by 9.5%; the quantized model further retains most of the detection capability of its floating-point counterpart. In addition, a FastAPI-based Web application is implemented to support RGB image acquisition-based single-image and batch detection, result visualization, and online inference. The proposed framework therefore provides an integrated sensing-to-deployment solution covering RGB image-based parcel perception, dataset construction, lightweight model optimization, quantized deployment, and application-level validation for intelligent logistics systems.