BSMD-YOLOv8: Enhancing YOLOv8 for Book Signature Marks Detection

In the field of bookbinding, accurately and efficiently detecting signature sequences during the binding process is crucial for enhancing quality, improving production efficiency, and advancing industrial automation. Despite significant advancements in object detection technology, verifying the corr...

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Main Authors: Long Guo, Lubin Wang, Qiang Yu, Xiaolan Xie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2024-11-01
Series:Applied Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/14/23/10829
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Summary:In the field of bookbinding, accurately and efficiently detecting signature sequences during the binding process is crucial for enhancing quality, improving production efficiency, and advancing industrial automation. Despite significant advancements in object detection technology, verifying the correctness of signature sequences remains challenging due to the small size, dense distribution, and abundance of low-quality signature marks. To tackle these challenges, we introduce the Book Signature Marks Detection (BSMD-YOLOv8) model, specifically designed for scenarios involving small, closely spaced objects such as signature marks. Our proposed backbone, the Lightweight Multi-scale Residual Network (LMRNet), achieves a lightweight network while enhancing the accuracy of small object detection. To address the issue of insufficient fusion of local and global feature information in PANet, we design the Low-stage gather-and-distribute (Low-GD) module and the High-stage gather-and-distribute (High-GD) module to enhance the model’s multi-scale feature fusion capabilities, thereby refining the integration of local and global features of signature marks. Furthermore, we introduce Wise-IoU (WIoU) as a replacement for CIoU, prioritizing anchor boxes with moderate quality and mitigating harmful gradients from low-quality examples. Experimental results demonstrate that, compared to YOLOv8n, BSMD-YOLOv8 reduces the number of parameters by 65%, increases the frame rate by 7 FPS, and enhances accuracy, recall, and mAP50 by 2.2%, 8.6%, and 3.9% respectively, achieving rapid and accurate detection of signature marks.
ISSN:2076-3417