GCDN: A Novel YOLOv11-Based Approach for Cotton Pest and Disease Detection
摘要
Existing cotton pests and diseases detection algorithms face challenges in adapting to variations in target sizes and complex scenarios, with inherent trade-offs between detection accuracy and speed during algorithmic optimization. To address these limitations, we propose GCDN-YOLOv11, an enhanced algorithm based on YOLOv11, which introduces three critical innovations: Global Guided Contextual Attention (GGCA) strengthens feature representation of key pest characteristics while improving adaptability to dynamic and complex environments, thereby enhancing detection precision; DCNv4 module enables precise spatial deformation estimation of pest targets, boosting the net- work’s accuracy and responsiveness to critical pest features; and ADown module enhances multi-scale and subtle feature recognition while significantly reducing computational complexity. Evaluated on the CottonInsect dataset, our GCDN model achieves a remarkable 97.1% mAP (3.4% improvement) and 2.6% higher accuracy than mainstream alternatives, while compressing parameters to 2.2 MB and reducing inference time to 1.0 ms, about 30% speed enhancement over the original model.