A Lightweight Phenology-Aware YOLOv5 Framework for Tomato Growth Stage Detection in Resource-Constrained Bhutanese Greenhouse Environments
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Title:A Lightweight Phenology-Aware YOLOv5 Framework for Tomato Growth Stage Detection in Resource-Constrained Bhutanese Greenhouse Environments
Abstract:Accurate detection of tomato growth stages is essential for stage-specific greenhouse management and precision agriculture. In Bhutan, greenhouse cultivation is affected by altitude variability, large diurnal temperature fluctuations, diffuse illumination, limited automation, and a scarcity of locally annotated datasets, limiting the applicability of conventional deep learning models. This work proposes Pheno-Lite + Efficient Channel Attention (ECA), a lightweight, phenology-aware object detection architecture derived from Ultralytics YOLOv5 for tomato growth stage recognition. A balanced dataset of 2,464 annotated images was constructed from locally collected greenhouse images in Bhutan and publicly available tomato images, with augmentation designed to simulate local greenhouse conditions. The dataset includes vegetative (820), flowering (824), fruiting (820), and background (26) samples. The proposed architecture introduces two customized backbone modules: C3 PhenoLite, which enhances spatial and texture feature extraction using depthwise residual refinement, and C3 ECA, which strengthens inter-channel feature interactions through efficient channel attention. The proposed model achieves 90.6% precision, 88.8% recall, and 92.6% mAP@50, with 4.0 million parameters and 10.9 GFLOPs at 640 x 640 resolution. These results demonstrate its potential for real-time and climate-resilient greenhouse deployment in Bhutan.
| Subjects: | Machine Learning (cs.LG) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2608.30088 [cs.LG] |
| (or arXiv:2608.30088v1 [cs.LG] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.30088
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From: Sou Nobukawa PhD [view email][v1] Sun, 30 Aug 2026 23:23:08 UTC (4,323 KB)
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