The escalating global climate change significantly impacts the yield and quality of maize, a vital staple crop worldwide, especially during seedling stage droughts. Traditional detection methods are limited by their single-scenario approach, requiring substantial human labor and time, and lack accuracy in the real-time monitoring and precise assessment of drought severity. In this study, a novel early drought detection method for maize based on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images and Yolov8+ is proposed. In the Backbone section, the C2F-Conv module is adopted to reduce model parameters and deployment costs, while incorporating the CA attention mechanism module to effectively capture tiny feature information in the images. The Neck section utilizes the BiFPN fusion architecture and spatial attention mechanism to enhance the model’s ability to recognize small and occluded targets. The Head section introduces an additional 10 × 10 output, integrates loss functions, and enhances accuracy by 1.46%, reduces training time by 30.2%, and improves robustness. The experimental results demonstrate that the improved Yolov8+ model achieves precision and recall rates of approximately 90.6% and 88.7%, respectively. The mAP@50 and mAP@50:95 reach 89.16% and 71.14%, respectively, representing respective increases of 3.9% and 3.3% compared to the original Yolov8. The UAV image detection speed of the model is up to 24.63 ms, with a model size of 13.76 MB, optimized by 31.6% and 28.8% compared to the original model, respectively. In comparison with the Yolov8, Yolov7, and Yolo5s models, the proposed method exhibits varying degrees of superiority in mAP@50, mAP@50:95, and other metrics, utilizing drone imagery and deep learning techniques to truly propel agricultural modernization.


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    Title :

    Early Drought Detection in Maize Using UAV Images and YOLOv8+


    Contributors:
    Shanwei Niu (author) / Zhigang Nie (author) / Guang Li (author) / Wenyu Zhu (author)


    Publication date :

    2024




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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