Yung-Hsiang Hung, Chuen-Kai Fan, Wen-Pai Wang*
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.83, No.2, pp. 2323-2349, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.063270
- 16 April 2025
Abstract Bees play a crucial role in the global food chain, pollinating over 75% of food and producing valuable products such as bee pollen, propolis, and royal jelly. However, the Asian hornet poses a serious threat to bee populations by preying on them and disrupting agricultural ecosystems. To address this issue, this study developed a modified YOLOv7tiny (You Only Look Once) model for efficient hornet detection. The model incorporated space-to-depth (SPD) and squeeze-and-excitation (SE) attention mechanisms and involved detailed annotation of the hornet’s head and full body, significantly enhancing the detection of small objects. The Taguchi… More >