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Freshness Detection of Plasma Treated Tomato Using CFL-YOLOv8n

Shaohuang Bian1,#, Qinxiu Gao1,#, Shan Su1, Weifeng Wang1, Feng Huang2,*
1 College of Information and Electronic Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
2 College of Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
* Corresponding Author: Feng Huang. Email: email
# These authors contributed equally to this work

Computers, Materials & Continua https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2026.081818

Received 09 March 2026; Accepted 11 May 2026; Published online 08 June 2026

Abstract

Tomato, as a globally important crop, its freshness directly affects postharvest quality, market value, and consumer acceptance. Traditional tomato freshness evaluation mainly relies on manual inspection and experience-based judgment, which is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and inefficient. Meanwhile, plasma technology has shown promising potential in agricultural preservation due to its safety and effectiveness, making the evaluation of tomato freshness after plasma treatment particularly important. In recent years, with the rapid development of deep learning technology, non-destructive detection methods based on image analysis have become important tools for agricultural product quality assessment. This study proposes an improved YOLOv8n-based model (named CFL-YOLOv8n) for tomato freshness detection. The method optimizes the C2f module by introducing a RetBlock residual structure, adopts an FDPN-DASI feature pyramid for cross-scale feature fusion, and incorporates the Focaler-IoU loss function to enhance bounding box localization accuracy. Additionally, a lightweight LSCD detection head is proposed to replace the original module to reduce parameters. It shows that the improved CFL-YOLOv8n model performs better performance for tomato freshness detection than comparison models, achieving mAP@.50 and mAP@.50:.95 of 90.0% and 88.5%, improved by 3.4% and 3.4% compared to the original YOLOv8n model, while significantly reducing parameters and computational complexity. The ablation experiments confirmed the effectiveness of each improved module. The proposed method provides an efficient solution for tomato freshness detection and offers technical support for evaluating the preservation effects of plasma treatment under controlled experimental conditions. Future work will focus on expanding the dataset scale and validating the model under more complex real-world environments.

Keywords

Tomato freshness detection; YOLOv8; object detection; deep learning; plasma-assisted preservation

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