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To address these issues, this study proposes a lightweight and high-precision peach detection model named Peach-YOLO based on an improved YOLOv8n framework. First, a Receptive-Field Attention Convolution (RFAConv) module is introduced into the C2f structure of the backbone network to enhance feature representation in salient regions and suppress background interference. Second, a Convolution and Attention Fusion Module (CAFM) is integrated to further strengthen the extraction of key fruit features. In the neck network, a Coordinate Attention-guided high-level screening feature fusion pyramid network (CA-HSFPN) is adopted, which significantly reduces computational complexity while improving semantic representation. Furthermore, the Shape-IoU loss function is introduced to replace the traditional CIoU loss, achieving more accurate bounding box regression through geometric alignment that accounts for object shape. Experimental results on a custom peach dataset show that Peach-YOLO, with a compact model size of only 5.0 MB, achieves a real-time inference speed of 115.7 FPS, an mAP@0.5 of 82.2%, a precision of 78.9%, and a recall of 76.4%. Compared with the baseline YOLOv8n, the mAP, precision, and recall are improved by 3.0, 3.6, and 4.8 percentage points, respectively. 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