Attention-Based Target Detection–You Only Look Once: A Detection Model for <i>Locusta migratoria</i> ssp. <i>manilensis</i> in Complex Environments

Locusts have always been among the important hazards affecting crop growth and the grassland ecological environment. Accurate and timely detection of locusts is crucial for effective control of insect development. Aiming at the problem of false detection and missed detection caused by locust occlusi...

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Main Authors: Peng Wang, Jiandong Fang, Xiuling Wang, Yudong Zhao
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Published: MDPI AG 2025-06-01
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Jiandong Fang
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Yudong Zhao
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description Locusts have always been among the important hazards affecting crop growth and the grassland ecological environment. Accurate and timely detection of locusts is crucial for effective control of insect development. Aiming at the problem of false detection and missed detection caused by locust occlusion and background similarity in complex field environments, this paper proposes a lightweight Attention-based Target Detection (ATD) model while constructing the dataset Real-Locust with the theme of <i>Locusta migratoria</i> ssp. <i>manilensis</i>. By introducing to attention mechanism and lightweight design, the model achieves a mean average precision (mAP) of 90.9% on the Real-Locust dataset, and the precision and recall rate are increased by 0.6% and 4.3%, respectively. At the same time, the number of parameters and computational complexity are reduced by 27.4% and 22.9%, showing that this provides an efficient solution for real-time monitoring of locusts.
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spelling doaj-art-5cdde3129ed24419a0cc790a4d3e05a32025-08-20T03:30:25ZengMDPI AGAgronomy2073-43952025-06-01156138110.3390/agronomy15061381Attention-Based Target Detection–You Only Look Once: A Detection Model for <i>Locusta migratoria</i> ssp. <i>manilensis</i> in Complex EnvironmentsPeng Wang0Jiandong Fang1Xiuling Wang2Yudong Zhao3College of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot 010080, ChinaCollege of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot 010080, ChinaCollege of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot 010080, ChinaInner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Intelligent Perception and System Engineering, Hohhot 010080, ChinaLocusts have always been among the important hazards affecting crop growth and the grassland ecological environment. Accurate and timely detection of locusts is crucial for effective control of insect development. Aiming at the problem of false detection and missed detection caused by locust occlusion and background similarity in complex field environments, this paper proposes a lightweight Attention-based Target Detection (ATD) model while constructing the dataset Real-Locust with the theme of <i>Locusta migratoria</i> ssp. <i>manilensis</i>. By introducing to attention mechanism and lightweight design, the model achieves a mean average precision (mAP) of 90.9% on the Real-Locust dataset, and the precision and recall rate are increased by 0.6% and 4.3%, respectively. At the same time, the number of parameters and computational complexity are reduced by 27.4% and 22.9%, showing that this provides an efficient solution for real-time monitoring of locusts.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/15/6/1381locust detectioncomplex environmentmulti-scale targetYOLOv8deep learning
spellingShingle Peng Wang
Jiandong Fang
Xiuling Wang
Yudong Zhao
Attention-Based Target Detection–You Only Look Once: A Detection Model for <i>Locusta migratoria</i> ssp. <i>manilensis</i> in Complex Environments
Agronomy
locust detection
complex environment
multi-scale target
YOLOv8
deep learning
title Attention-Based Target Detection–You Only Look Once: A Detection Model for <i>Locusta migratoria</i> ssp. <i>manilensis</i> in Complex Environments
title_full Attention-Based Target Detection–You Only Look Once: A Detection Model for <i>Locusta migratoria</i> ssp. <i>manilensis</i> in Complex Environments
title_fullStr Attention-Based Target Detection–You Only Look Once: A Detection Model for <i>Locusta migratoria</i> ssp. <i>manilensis</i> in Complex Environments
title_full_unstemmed Attention-Based Target Detection–You Only Look Once: A Detection Model for <i>Locusta migratoria</i> ssp. <i>manilensis</i> in Complex Environments
title_short Attention-Based Target Detection–You Only Look Once: A Detection Model for <i>Locusta migratoria</i> ssp. <i>manilensis</i> in Complex Environments
title_sort attention based target detection you only look once a detection model for i locusta migratoria i ssp i manilensis i in complex environments
topic locust detection
complex environment
multi-scale target
YOLOv8
deep learning
url https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/15/6/1381
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