Han Yang

Dr. Han Yang


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Academic Career Length

2Years (2025-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 October 2025 in Horticulturae
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HZHao Zheng
Hao Zheng
LSLi Sun
Li Sun
YWYue Wang
Yue Wang
HYHan Yang
Han Yang
SZShuwen Zhang
Shuwen Zhang
The accurate assessment of Chinese bayberry (Myrica rubra) maturity is critical for intelligent harvesting. This study proposes a novel cascaded framework combining instance segmentation and multi-feature regression for accurate maturity detection. First, a lightweight SOLOv2-Light network is employed to segment each fruit individually, which significantly reduces computational costs with only a marginal drop in accuracy. Then, a multi-feature extraction network is developed to fuse deep semantic, color (LAB space), and multi-scale texture features, enhanced by a channel attention mechanism for adaptive weighting. The maturity ground truth is defined using the a*/b* ratio measured by a colorimeter, which correlates strongly with anthocyanin accumulation and visual ripeness. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed method achieves a mask mAP of 0.788 on the instance segmentation task, outperforming Mask R-CNN and YOLACT. For maturity prediction, a mean absolute error of 3.946% is attained, which is a significant improvement over the baseline. When the data are discretized into three maturity categories, the overall accuracy reaches 95.51%, surpassing YOLOX-s and Faster R-CNN by a considerable margin while reducing processing time by approximately 46%. The modular design facilitates easy adaptation to new varieties. This research provides a robust and efficient solution for in-field bayberry maturity detection, offering substantial value for the development of automated harvesting systems.