Abstract:Fine-grained classification of growth stages is a prerequisite for achieving intelligent and precise environmental control in seafood mushroom cultivation. However,due to the subtle phenotypic differences between adjacent growth stages and the high granularity of stage division required for regulation,accurate classification remains challenging. An enhanced YOLO 11-based method for fine-grained growth stage classification was proposed. Firstly, a global attention mechanism(GAM) was integrated into the YOLO 11 backbone network to enhance channel and spatial attention, thereby improving the extraction of discriminative features. Secondly,the activation function was replaced with Mish to strengthen the network’s nonlinear representation capability.Finally, the original convolution was optimized to GhostConv,simplifying the model architecture while maintaining high detection accuracy and computational efficiency.Experimental results demonstrated that the improved algorithm achieved a recognition accuracy of 96.97%, a recall rate of 96.73%, a mean average precision (mAP) of 96.58%, and a precision of 96.81%.Furthermore, the inference time and model parameters were reduced by 4.28% and 21.69%, respectively, outperforming that of RF-SVM,ResNet50, YOLO v8,and the original YOLO 11. These results indicated that the proposed method exhibited superior comprehensive performance and can be effectively applied to fine-grained classification of seafood mushroom growth stages,providing a robust foundation for intelligent environmental regulation in mushroom cultivation.