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First, the original YOLOv8 backbone is substituted with EfficientNetV2 to achieve model lightweighting while improving detection performance. Second, a Slim-neck module is integrated into the YOLOv8 neck to promote cross-layer information propagation and improve feature perception, which in turn boosts the detection performance on small objects. Meanwhile, an efficient multi-scale attention (EMA) is incorporated to boost multi-scale target detection performance, reduce computational overhead, and strengthen feature representation robustness. Finally, the localization performance of predicted targets is further improved by adopting MPDIoU rather than the original loss function. The experimental results indicate that the proposed method attains 97.7% precision, 95.6% recall, and a 97.5% mAP50, outperforming mainstream detection algorithms in comparative evaluations. 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