Enhanced forestry pest detection via multi-frequency feature integration and KAN convolution
摘要
To overcome the constraints of standard methods for detecting forest pests, especially in complex ecosystems and with small targets, this study presents KFBI-DETR, an enhanced model based on Deformable-DETR. The framework incorporates three specialized modules: Convolutional KANs attention-enhanced block (CKAEB), a feature enhancement block leveraging dynamic receptive field adjustment via KAN convolution; fast Fourier transform feature mixer block (FFMB), a frequency spatial fusion module utilizing FFT and partial convolution; and depthwise separable convolution-based upsample block (DCUB), an upsampling module designed with depthwise convolution and channel interaction. Results of experiments on the SE-FPD and FPD datasets indicate that KFBI-DETR outperforms Deformable-DETR, yielding enhancements of 4.2% and 4.3% in mAP, respectively. Notably, it significantly boosts small-object detection accuracy, increasing accuracy from 46.1 to 52.4% on SE-FPD and from 48.7 to 54.9% on FPD. These results surpass other DETR-based variants, which generally yield only marginal gains. These findings highlight the model's effectiveness and practicality in forestry pest surveillance. The code is available at https://github.com/wanlangyi/KFBI-DETR.git