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The model integrates three key components: (i) a Multi-scale Adaptive Feature Pyramid Network (MAFPN) that enhances the extraction and fusion of multi-dimensional features for densely distributed and occluded slender buds; (ii) a Lightweight Adaptive Direction-aware Head (LADH) that dynamically optimizes angle regression for rotated bounding boxes, improving orientation stability and reducing localization bias; and (iii) an Adaptive Down-sampling module (Adown) that preserves structurally critical spatial cues while reducing model complexity. Experiments conducted on a custom daylily field dataset demonstrate that DDM-YOLO achieves 96.8% precision and 98.1% mAP50, outperforming the baseline YOLOv11n-OBB by 1.3 percentage points in mAP while reducing model parameters by 17.0% to 2.2M. Deployment verification using a PySide5-based visualization prototype demonstrated a total system-level latency of less than 0.2 s, a duration encompassing the cumulative overhead of image input and output, pre-processing, post-processing including non-maximum suppression, and interface rendering. Furthermore, physical deployment on an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin embedded platform utilizing TensorRT optimization achieved an impressive inference speed of 114.5 FPS, corresponding to approximately 8.7 ms per frame. This performance confirms that the model meets the stringent real-time requirements for edge computing in mobile agricultural robotics. 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