Smart Agricultural Pest Detection Using I-YOLOv10-SC: An Improved Object Detection Framework

• Published in: Agronomy (Basel) 2025-01, Vol.15 (1), p.221
• Main Authors: Yuan, Wenxia, Lan, Lingfang, Xu, Jiayi, Sun, Tingting, Wang, Xinghua, Wang, Qiaomei, Hu, Jingnan, Wang, Baijuan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Accuracy; Adaptability; Algorithms; Climate change; Datasets; Insects; intelligent pest monitoring; Neural networks; Pests; Plantations; Recall; Scale Adjustment Factors; shape weights; Smartphones; Space-to-Depth Convolution; Target detection
• ISSN: 2073-4395; 2073-4395
• DOI: 10.3390/agronomy15010221

Aiming at the problems of insufficient detection accuracy and high false detection rates of traditional pest detection models in the face of small targets and incomplete targets, this study proposes an improved target detection network, I-YOLOv10-SC. The network leverages Space-to-Depth Convolution to enhance its capability in detecting small insect targets. The Convolutional Block Attention Module is employed to improve feature representation and attention focus. Additionally, Shape Weights and Scale Adjustment Factors are introduced to optimize the loss function. The experimental results show that compared with the original YOLOv10, the model generated by the improved algorithm improves the accuracy by 5.88 percentage points, the recall rate by 6.67 percentage points, the balance score by 6.27 percentage points, the mAP value by 4.26 percentage points, the bounding box loss by 18.75%, the classification loss by 27.27%, and the feature point loss by 8%. The model oscillation has also been significantly improved. The enhanced I-YOLOv10-SC network effectively addresses the challenges of detecting small and incomplete insect targets in tea plantations, offering high precision and recall rates, thus providing a solid technical foundation for intelligent pest monitoring and precise prevention in smart tea gardens.