31 papers
Integrating Feature Selection and Machine Learning for Nitrogen Assessment in Grapevine Leaves using In-Field Hyperspectral Imaging
Atif Bilal Asad, Achyut Paudel, Safal Kshetri +8
Nitrogen (N) is one of the most critical nutrients in winegrape production, influencing vine vigor, fruit composition, and wine quality. Because soil N availability varies spatiall…
Ultralytics YOLO Evolution: An Overview of YOLO26, YOLO11, YOLOv8 and YOLOv5 Object Detectors for Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Ranjan Sapkota, Manoj Karkee
This paper presents a comprehensive overview of the Ultralytics YOLO(You Only Look Once) family of object detectors, focusing the architectural evolution, benchmarking, deployment…
YOLO26: Key Architectural Enhancements and Performance Benchmarking for Real-Time Object Detection
Ranjan Sapkota, Rahul Harsha Cheppally, Ajay Sharda +1
This study presents a comprehensive analysis of Ultralytics YOLO26(also called as YOLOv26), highlighting its key architectural enhancements and performance benchmarking for real-ti…
Comprehensive Performance Evaluation of YOLOv12, YOLO11, YOLOv10, YOLOv9 and YOLOv8 on Detecting and Counting Fruitlet in Complex Orchard Environments
Ranjan Sapkota, Zhichao Meng, Martin Churuvija +3
This study systematically conducted an extensive real-world evaluation of all configurations of You Only Look Once (YOLO)-based object detection algorithms, including YOLOv8, YOLOv…
YOLOE-26: Integrating YOLO26 with YOLOE for Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Instance Segmentation
Ranjan Sapkota, Manoj Karkee
This paper presents YOLOE-26, a unified framework that integrates the deployment-optimized YOLO26(or YOLOv26) architecture with the open-vocabulary learning paradigm of YOLOE for r…
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Models: Concepts, Progress, Applications and Challenges
Ranjan Sapkota, Yang Cao, Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis +1
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models mark a transformative advancement in artificial intelligence, aiming to unify perception, natural language understanding, and embodied action wi…