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To address these challenges, this study employs image recognition and object detection techniques to classify igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. We propose an improved You Only Look Once version 11 (YOLO11)-based model by integrating the Efficient Visual State Space (EVSS) module, which enhances the extraction of key rock characteristics\u2014such as texture and fractures\u2014by modeling long-range spatial dependencies and overcoming the locality limitations of conventional convolutional networks. The proposed method is evaluated against three mainstream deep learning models. Experimental results show that the EVSS-enhanced YOLO11 achieves the highest classification accuracy of 92%, outperforming the Vision Transformer (ViT, 85%), ResNet (74%), and the standard YOLO11 (87%). In object detection tasks, the EVSS-integrated YOLO11 also demonstrates superior performance, achieving a mean average precision at 50% intersection-over-union (mAP50) of 91.8% compared to 87.7% for the original YOLO11. 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