Abstract:Aiming to address the challenges of balancing accuracy and efficiency, and the difficulty of embedded deployment, in high-throughput detection of densely clustered wheat grains, a lightweight LMA-DEIM-based model for detecting densely clustered wheat grains was proposed.Firstly, a WSD dataset containing 230,000 grain target boxes from five wheat varieties was constructed to provide a data foundation for model training and evaluation.Secondly, based on the DEIM framework, a lightweight global modeling backbone network, Lite-Mamba, was designed to enhance the ability to distinguish clustered regions with linear computational complexity.A MIFI module based on selective state space was proposed to replace the original AIFI module, achieving efficient feature interaction and reduced computational complexity.A lightweight downsampling module, ADown, was introduced to mitigate detail loss during downsampling and improve the ability to preserve detailed features.Experimental results showed that the LMA-DEIM model achieved precision, recall, and mAP@50 of 92.7%, 91.5%, and 92.0% on the WSD test set, respectively, with an inference speed of 143.1 f/s and an average relative counting error of only 3.08% on the high-density test subset.Compared with the original DEIM framework, the proposed method significantly improved accuracy while reducing the number of parameters by 66.9% and increasing speed by 240%, meeting the deployment requirements of embedded devices for high-throughput, real-time, and high-precision grain detection.