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2025

Assessing the capability of YOLO- and transformer-based object detectors for real-time weed detection

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Spot spraying represents an efficient and sustainable method for reducing herbicide use in agriculture. Reliable differentiation between crops and weeds, including species-level classification, is essential for real-time application. This study compares state-of-the-art object detection models-YOLOv8, YOLOv9, YOLOv10, and RT-DETR-using 5611 images from 16 plant species. Two datasets were created, dataset 1 with training all 16 species individually and dataset 2 with grouping weeds into monocotyledonous weeds, dicotyledonous weeds, and three chosen crops. Results indicate that all models perform similarly, but YOLOv9s and YOLOv9e, exhibit strong recall (66.58 % and 72.36 %) and mAP50 (73.52 % and 79.86 %), and mAP50-95 (43.82 % and 47.00 %) in dataset 2. RT-DETR-l, excels in precision reaching 82.44 % (dataset 1) and 81.46 % (dataset 2) making it ideal for minimizing false positives. In dataset 2, YOLOv9c attains a precision of 84.76% for dicots and 78.22% recall for Zea mays L.. Inference times highlight smaller YOLO models (YOLOv8n, YOLOv9t, and YOLOv10n) as the fastest, reaching 7.64 ms (dataset 1) on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 GPU, with CPU inference times increasing significantly. These findings emphasize the trade-off between model size, accuracy, and hardware suitability for real-time agricultural applications.

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Precision agriculture, 26 (2025), 3, 52. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11119-025-10246-0. ISSN: 1573-1618

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Allmendinger, A., Saltık, A. O., Peteinatos, G. G., Stein, A., & Gerhards, R. (2025). Assessing the capability of YOLO- and transformer-based object detectors for real-time weed detection. Precision agriculture, 26(3). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11119-025-10246-0

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@article{Allmendinger2025, doi = {10.1007/s11119-025-10246-0}, url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/17907}, author = {Allmendinger, Alicia and Saltık, Ahmet Oğuz and Peteinatos, Gerassimos G. et al.}, title = {Assessing the capability of YOLO- and transformer-based object detectors for real-time weed detection}, journal = {Precision agriculture}, year = {2025}, volume = {26}, number = {3}, }

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