RDW-YOLO: A Deep Learning Framework for Scalable Agricultural Pest Monitoring and Control

Due to target diversity, life-cycle variations, and complex backgrounds, traditional pest detection methods often struggle with accuracy and efficiency. This study introduces RDW-YOLO, an improved pest detection algorithm based on YOLO11, featuring three key innovations. First, the Reparameterized D...

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Main Authors: Jiaxin Song, Ke Cheng, Fei Chen, Xuecheng Hua
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2025-05-01
Series:Insects
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/16/5/545
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Summary:Due to target diversity, life-cycle variations, and complex backgrounds, traditional pest detection methods often struggle with accuracy and efficiency. This study introduces RDW-YOLO, an improved pest detection algorithm based on YOLO11, featuring three key innovations. First, the Reparameterized Dilated Fusion Block (RDFBlock) enhances feature extraction via multi-branch dilated convolutions for fine-grained pest characteristics. Second, the DualPathDown (DPDown) module integrates hybrid pooling and convolution for better multi-scale adaptability. Third, an enhanced Wise-Wasserstein IoU (WWIoU) loss function optimizes the matching mechanism and improves bounding-box regression. Experiments on the enhanced IP102 dataset show that RDW-YOLO achieves an mAP@0.5 of 71.3% and an mAP@0.5:0.95 of 50.0%, surpassing YOLO11 by 3.1% and 2.0%, respectively. The model also adopts a lightweight design and has a computational complexity of 5.6 G, ensuring efficient deployment without sacrificing accuracy. These results highlight RDW-YOLO’s potential for precise and efficient pest detection in sustainable agriculture.
ISSN:2075-4450