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The precise identification and localization of jujube leaf branches using real-time object detection technology are crucial steps toward achieving intelligent harvesting. When integrated into real-world scenarios, issues such as the background noise introduced by tags, occlusions, and variations in jujube leaf morphology constrain the accuracy of detection and the precision of localization. To address these issues, we describe a jujube leaf branch object detection network based on YOLOv7. First, the Polarized Self-Attention module is embedded into the convolutional layer, and the Gather-Excite module is embedded into the concat layer to incorporate spatial information, thus achieving the suppression of irrelevant information such as background noise. Second, we incorporate implicit knowledge into the Efficient Decoupled Head and replace the original detection head, enhancing the network\u2019s capability to extract deep features. Third, to address the issue of imbalanced jujube leaf samples, we employ Focal-EIoU as the bounding box loss function to expedite the regression prediction and enhance the localization accuracy of the model\u2019s bounding boxes. Experiments show that the precision of our model is 85%, which is increased by 3.5% compared to that of YOLOv7-tiny. The mAP@0.5 value is 83.7%. Our model\u2019s recognition rate, recall and mean average precision are superior to those of other models. Our method could provide technical support for yield estimation in the intelligent management of jujube orchards.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s24154856","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,7,26]],"date-time":"2024-07-26T09:22:42Z","timestamp":1721985762000},"page":"4856","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["YOLOv7-Branch: A Jujube Leaf Branch Detection Model for Agricultural Robot"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2112-7786","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ruijun","family":"Jing","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Software, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan 030800, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jijiang","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"China Nuclear Industry Huaxing Construction Co., Ltd., Nanjing 210000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jingkai","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Software, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan 030800, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiongwei","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Software, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan 030800, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhiguo","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Software, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan 030800, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,7,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"463","article-title":"Effect of Ziziphus jujube leaf extract on the central nervous system","volume":"20","author":"Zhao","year":"2009","journal-title":"Lishizhen Med. 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