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With the increasing annual levels of such emissions, there is growing concern over their detrimental effects on both the environment and human health. Therefore, it is imperative to strengthen the supervision and control of black smoke emissions. An effective approach is to analyze the smoke emission status of vehicles. Conventional object detection models often exhibit limitations in detecting black smoke, including challenges related to multi-scale target sizes, complex backgrounds, and insufficient localization accuracy. To address these issues, this study proposes a multi-dimensional detection algorithm. First, a multi-scale feature extraction method was introduced by replacing the conventional C2F module with a mechanism that employs parallel convolutional kernels of varying sizes. This design enables the extraction of features at different receptive fields, significantly improving the capability to capture black smoke patterns. To further enhance the network\u2019s performance, a four-layer adaptive feature fusion detection head was proposed. This component dynamically adjusts the fusion weights assigned to each feature layer, thereby leveraging the unique advantages of different hierarchical representations. Additionally, to improve localization accuracy affected by the highly irregular shapes of black smoke edges, the Inner-IoU loss function was incorporated. This loss effectively alleviates the oversensitivity of CIoU to bounding box regression near image boundaries. Experiments conducted on a custom dataset, named Smoke-X, demonstrated that the proposed algorithm achieves a 4.8% increase in precision, a 5.9% improvement in recall, and a 5.6% gain in mAP50, compared to baseline methods. 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