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Current manual detection methods suffer from inherent limitations: notably, suboptimal accuracy and delayed response times, which hinder effective allergy management. Therefore, we present an automated pollen concentration detection system integrated with a novel GGD-YOLOv8n model (Ghost-generalized-FPN-DualConv-YOLOv8), which was specifically designed for allergenic pollen species identification. The methodological advancements comprise three components: (1) combining the C2f convolution in Backbone with the G-Ghost module, this module generates features through half-convolution operations and half-symmetric linear operations, enhancing the extraction and expression capabilities of detailed feature information. (2) The conventional neck network is replaced with a GFPN architecture, facilitating cross-scale feature aggregation and refinement. (3) Standard convolutional layers are substituted with DualConv, thereby reducing model complexity by 22.6% (parameters) and 22% GFLOPs (computational load) while maintaining competitive detection accuracy. This systematic optimization enables efficient deployment on edge computing platforms with stringent resource constraints. The experimental validation substantiates that the proposed methodology outperforms the baseline YOLOv8n model, attaining a 5.4% increase in classification accuracy accompanied by a 4.7% enhancement in mAP@50 metrics. When implemented on Jetson Nano embedded platforms, the system demonstrates computational efficiency with an inference latency of 364.9 ms per image frame, equating to a 22.5% reduction in processing time compared to conventional implementations. The empirical results conclusively validate the dual superiority in detecting precision and operational efficacy when executing microscopic pollen image analysis on resource-constrained edge computing devices; they establish a feasible algorithm framework for automated pollen concentration monitoring systems.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym17060849","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,29]],"date-time":"2025-05-29T06:25:04Z","timestamp":1748499904000},"page":"849","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["GGD-YOLOv8n: A Lightweight Architecture for Edge-Computing-Optimized Allergenic Pollen Recognition with Cross-Scale Feature Fusion"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Tianrui","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot 010051, China"}]},{"given":"Xiaoqiang","family":"Jia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot 010051, China"},{"name":"Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Radar Technology and Application, Hohhot 010051, China"}]},{"given":"Ying","family":"Cui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot 010051, China"}]},{"given":"Hanyu","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Energy and Power Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot 010051, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"156","article-title":"THE WAO WHITE BOOK ON ALLERGY 2011\u20132012","volume":"24","author":"Weinberg","year":"2011","journal-title":"Curr. 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