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Research Article | Open Access

FCOS-LSC: A Novel Model for Green Fruit Detection in a Complex Orchard Environment

Ruina Zhao1Yujie Guan1Yuqi Lu1Ze Ji2Xiang Yin3Weikuan Jia1,4( )
School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China
School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK
School of Agricultural Engineering and Food Science, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255000, China
Key Laboratory of Facility Agriculture Measurement and Control Technology and Equipment of Machinery Industry, Zhenjiang 212013, China
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Abstract

To better address the difficulties in designing green fruit recognition techniques in machine vision systems, a new fruit detection model is proposed. This model is an optimization of the FCOS (full convolution one-stage object detection) algorithm, incorporating LSC (level scales, spaces, channels) attention blocks in the network structure, and named FCOS-LSC. The method achieves efficient recognition and localization of green fruit images affected by overlapping occlusions, lighting conditions, and capture angles. Specifically, the improved feature extraction network ResNet50 with added deformable convolution is used to fully extract green fruit feature information. The feature pyramid network (FPN) is employed to fully fuse low-level detail information and high-level semantic information in a cross-connected and top-down connected way. Next, the attention mechanisms are added to each of the 3 dimensions of scale, space (including the height and width of the feature map), and channel of the generated multiscale feature map to improve the feature perception capability of the network. Finally, the classification and regression subnetworks of the model are applied to predict the fruit category and bounding box. In the classification branch, a new positive and negative sample selection strategy is applied to better distinguish supervised signals by designing weights in the loss function to achieve more accurate fruit detection. The proposed FCOS-LSC model has 38.65M parameters, 38.72G floating point operations, and mean average precision of 63.0% and 75.2% for detecting green apples and green persimmons, respectively. In summary, FCOS-LSC outperforms the state-of-the-art models in terms of precision and complexity to meet the accurate and efficient requirements of green fruit recognition using intelligent agricultural equipment. Correspondingly, FCOS-LSC can be used to improve the robustness and generalization of the green fruit detection models.

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Cite this article:
Zhao R, Guan Y, Lu Y, et al. FCOS-LSC: A Novel Model for Green Fruit Detection in a Complex Orchard Environment. Plant Phenomics, 2023, 5: 0069. https://doi.org/10.34133/plantphenomics.0069

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Received: 14 February 2023
Accepted: 23 June 2023
Published: 19 July 2023
© 2023 Ruina Zhao et al. Exclusive licensee Nanjing Agricultural University. No claim to original U.S. Government Works.

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