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Therefore, this paper proposes a method for recognizing the bulk grain-loading status based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR). This method uses LiDAR to obtain point cloud data and constructs a deep learning network to perform target recognition and component segmentation on loading vehicles, extract vehicle positions and grain shapes, and recognize and make known the bulk grain-loading status. Based on the measured point cloud data of bulk grain loading, in the point cloud-classification task, the overall accuracy is 97.9% and the mean accuracy is 98.1%. In the vehicle component-segmentation task, the overall accuracy is 99.1% and the Mean Intersection over Union is 96.6%. 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