Enhanced YOLOv8 with lightweight and efficient detection head for for detecting rice leaf diseases
Abstract Detecting rice leaf diseases is essential for agricultural stability and crop health. However, the diversity of these diseases, their uneven distribution, and complex field environments create challenges for precise, multi-scale detection. While YOLO object detection algorithms show strong...
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| description | Abstract Detecting rice leaf diseases is essential for agricultural stability and crop health. However, the diversity of these diseases, their uneven distribution, and complex field environments create challenges for precise, multi-scale detection. While YOLO object detection algorithms show strong performance in automated detection, their feature extraction capabilities remain limited in complex agricultural settings. Moreover, their high computational demands hinder deployment on resource-constrained devices, necessitating further optimization.To overcome these issues, This paper presents G-YOLO, a novel architecture that combines a Lightweight and Efficient Detection Head (LEDH) with Multi-scale Spatial Pyramid Pooling Fast (MSPPF). The LEDH enhances detection speed by simplifying the network structure while maintaining accuracy, reducing computational demands. The MSPPF improves the model’s ability to capture intricate details of rice leaf diseases at various scales by fusing multi-level feature maps. On the RiceDisease dataset, G-YOLO surpasses YOLOv8n with 4.4% higher mAP@0.5, 3.9% higher mAP@0.75, and a 13.1% increase in FPS, making it well-suited for resource-constrained devices due to its efficient design. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d9e2e5834ff840ee95aa8d412b6963912025-08-20T03:03:40ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222025-07-0115111310.1038/s41598-025-06843-8Enhanced YOLOv8 with lightweight and efficient detection head for for detecting rice leaf diseasesBo Gan0Guolin Pu1Weiyin Xing2Lianfang Wang3Shu Liang4Dazhou Vocational and Technical CollegeDazhou Vocational and Technical CollegeMianyang PolytechnicDazhou Vocational and Technical CollegeDazhou Vocational and Technical CollegeAbstract Detecting rice leaf diseases is essential for agricultural stability and crop health. However, the diversity of these diseases, their uneven distribution, and complex field environments create challenges for precise, multi-scale detection. While YOLO object detection algorithms show strong performance in automated detection, their feature extraction capabilities remain limited in complex agricultural settings. Moreover, their high computational demands hinder deployment on resource-constrained devices, necessitating further optimization.To overcome these issues, This paper presents G-YOLO, a novel architecture that combines a Lightweight and Efficient Detection Head (LEDH) with Multi-scale Spatial Pyramid Pooling Fast (MSPPF). The LEDH enhances detection speed by simplifying the network structure while maintaining accuracy, reducing computational demands. The MSPPF improves the model’s ability to capture intricate details of rice leaf diseases at various scales by fusing multi-level feature maps. On the RiceDisease dataset, G-YOLO surpasses YOLOv8n with 4.4% higher mAP@0.5, 3.9% higher mAP@0.75, and a 13.1% increase in FPS, making it well-suited for resource-constrained devices due to its efficient design.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-06843-8Rice leaf disease detectionAgricultural stabilityCrop healthLightweight |
| spellingShingle | Bo Gan Guolin Pu Weiyin Xing Lianfang Wang Shu Liang Enhanced YOLOv8 with lightweight and efficient detection head for for detecting rice leaf diseases Scientific Reports Rice leaf disease detection Agricultural stability Crop health Lightweight |
| title | Enhanced YOLOv8 with lightweight and efficient detection head for for detecting rice leaf diseases |
| title_full | Enhanced YOLOv8 with lightweight and efficient detection head for for detecting rice leaf diseases |
| title_fullStr | Enhanced YOLOv8 with lightweight and efficient detection head for for detecting rice leaf diseases |
| title_full_unstemmed | Enhanced YOLOv8 with lightweight and efficient detection head for for detecting rice leaf diseases |
| title_short | Enhanced YOLOv8 with lightweight and efficient detection head for for detecting rice leaf diseases |
| title_sort | enhanced yolov8 with lightweight and efficient detection head for for detecting rice leaf diseases |
| topic | Rice leaf disease detection Agricultural stability Crop health Lightweight |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-06843-8 |
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