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Record W4413565203 · doi:10.47611/jsrhs.v14i1.8463

Apple Recognition Method in Orchards Based on SAM and YOLOv8

2025· article· en· W4413565203 on OpenAlexaff
Sunny Lu, Z. B. Jiao

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Student Research · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
TopicRemote Sensing and Land Use
Canadian institutionsEarl Haig Secondary School
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHorticultureComputer scienceBiology

Abstract

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The aim of this research is to improve automatic harvesting of orchard apples through an efficient detection method. By applying TensorRT, the YOLOv8 model will run much more efficiently while optimising computational resources. In particular, we believe that the depth and complexity of various YOLOv8 versions of the model will play a key role in improving the detection performance. Therefore, in this study, we tested several versions of YOLOv8 algorithmic recognition models, such as YOLOv8s, YOLOv8n, YOLOv8l, YOLOv8m, etc., and used a variety of model annotation methods including traditional manual annotation, unsupervised annotation, and semiautomatic annotation tools based on the large-scale SAM model SAMsaa. In addition, we tested the effectiveness of automatic apple detection in orchards with and without hardware acceleration. In order to test the above hypotheses, we conducted several experiments and showed that the overall detection performance of the YOLOv8m model was significantly improved in the experimental setting where the dataset was labelled using the SAMsaa tool and optimised using TensorRT. In addition, the overall detection performance of the YOLOv8m model was even more significantly improved in the experiments where the TensorRT-optimised dataset was labelled using the SAMsaa tool on the Jetson Xavier computing platform. The detection mAP50 improved by 33% and 32.7%, respectively, and the average detection accuracy for apple detection reached 90.41%. These results validate the effectiveness and superiority of our method.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.620
Threshold uncertainty score0.195

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.151
GPT teacher head0.445
Teacher spread0.294 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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