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arXiv Computer Vision By Ranjan Sapkota, Manoj Karkee

Comparing YOLOv11 and YOLOv8 for instance segmentation of occluded and non-occluded immature green fruits in complex orchard environment

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This study evaluates the instance‑segmentation performance of YOLOv11 and YOLOv8 on immature green apples in orchard settings. YOLO11n‑seg achieved the highest mask precision (0.831), while YOLO11m‑seg and YOLO11l‑seg excelled in non‑occluded and occluded fruitlet segmentation. YOLOv8n, however, outperformed the YOLO11 series in inference speed, reaching 3.3 ms compared to 4.8 ms for the fastest YOLO11 model.

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