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However, in the traditional methods, the selection of manual feature extraction mechanisms is ineffective, inefficient, and time-consuming, while deep learning techniques are computationally expensive and require a large amount of training data. In this paper, we propose an efficient pest detection method that accurately localized the pests and classify them according to their desired class label. In the proposed work, we modify the YOLOv5s model in several ways such as extending the cross stage partial network (CSP) module, improving the select kernel (SK) in the attention module, and modifying the multiscale feature extraction mechanism, which plays a significant role in the detection and classification of small and large sizes of pest in an image. To validate the model performance, we develop a medium-scale pest detection dataset that includes the five most harmful pests for agriculture products that are ants, grasshopper, palm weevils, shield bugs, and wasps. To check the model\u2019s effectiveness, we compare the results of the proposed model with several variations of the YOLOv5 model, where the proposed model achieved the best results in the experiments. Thus, the proposed model has the potential to be applied in real-world applications and further motivate research on pest detection to increase agriculture production.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22249749","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,13]],"date-time":"2022-12-13T03:32:32Z","timestamp":1670902352000},"page":"9749","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":22,"title":["An Efficient Pest Detection Framework with a Medium-Scale Benchmark to Increase the Agricultural Productivity"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4349-8710","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Suliman","family":"Aladhadh","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information Technology, College of Computer, Qassim University, Buraydah 51452, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6543-2520","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shabana","family":"Habib","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information Technology, College of Computer, Qassim University, Buraydah 51452, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2379-4451","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Muhammad","family":"Islam","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering and Information Technology, Onaizah Colleges, Onaizah 56447, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1655-8098","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mohammed","family":"Aloraini","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Qassim University, Unaizah 56452, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mohammed","family":"Aladhadh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Qassim University, Buraydah 51452, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hazim Saleh","family":"Al-Rawashdeh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cyber Security, College of Engineering and Information Technology, Onaizah Colleges, Onaizah 56447, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"16","DOI":"10.1007\/s13205-018-1536-0","article-title":"An effective pest management approach in potato to combat insect pests and herbicide","volume":"9","author":"Amiri","year":"2019","journal-title":"3 Biotech"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"25","DOI":"10.1111\/pbi.13685","article-title":"Insect pest management in the age of synthetic biology","volume":"20","author":"Petek","year":"2022","journal-title":"Plant Biotechnol. 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