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New YOLO Model Enhances Cotton Square Detection with Structural and Frequency Cues

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Researchers have developed a new object detection framework called Cotton-SF YOLO, designed to accurately identify cotton squares in complex field environments. This model incorporates Dynamic Snake Convolution to better capture the small, irregular boundaries of cotton squares and a frequency-domain feature modulation module to enhance discriminative edge and texture cues. Tested on a newly created dataset, Cotton-SF YOLO demonstrated improved performance over the baseline YOLO26m, achieving higher mAP and recall values. AI

IMPACT This research could improve precision agriculture by enabling more accurate automated monitoring of cotton growth.

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New YOLO Model Enhances Cotton Square Detection with Structural and Frequency Cues

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Chengjia Zhang, Yu Li, Feiri Ali, Yan Zhang, Xin Chen, Longke He, Daokun Ma, Liting Gao ·

    Cotton-SF YOLO: Learning Structural and Frequency Cues for Early Cotton Square Detection in Complex Field Environments

    arXiv:2607.14445v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cotton squares are important phenotypic indicators of the early reproductive growth of cotton, and automatic field detection of cotton squares provides an important basis for cotton growth monitoring and precision cultivation manage…

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