YOLO-GPP: The Tomato Harvesting Robot That Finally Answers Both “Where to Cut” and “How to Hold” in One Shot
Researchers at the Beijing Academy of Agriculture built a network that does something no prior harvesting vision system had cleanly managed: it looks at a single RGB image of tangled tomato stems, finds the optimal cutting point on the peduncle, and simultaneously predicts the exact angle the end-effector needs to approach without touching the fruit. One model, one pass, 20 frames per second on a CPU-only industrial computer — with 47% less position error and 30% less angle error than the previous best methods.
Harvesting a tomato cluster sounds simple but is geometrically treacherous. The robot arm needs to insert its end-effector between a large fruit and a thin, often bent peduncle, cut at exactly the right spot on the stem junction, and approach from an angle that avoids knocking neighboring fruits off the plant. Getting this wrong damages the fruit, leaves rotting stubs that infect the main stem, or — in the worst case — sends the arm crashing into the plant entirely. Every prior approach solved half the problem: keypoint detectors found where to cut but couldn’t tell you the approach angle. Segmentation models estimated orientation from fitted lines through masks, but mask fragmentation under greenhouse lighting made those estimates unreliable. YOLO-GPP is the first clean end-to-end solution: a 3D grasp vector (x, y, θ) regressed directly from raw pixels, with loss functions mathematically tailored to the peculiarities of angular prediction.
The Problem Nobody Had Fully Solved
A tomato harvesting robot faces two fundamentally different visual perception challenges packed into a single close-range image. The first is position: where exactly on the peduncle-stem junction should the cutting blade be placed? Too far from the junction and you leave too much stub; too close and you risk damaging the main stem. The second is pose: at what angle should the end-effector approach? The peduncle runs in a particular direction, there’s a large fruit sitting close by, and the gripper geometry means only one angular approach avoids collision.
Prior methods split these into separate problems and solved each with different tools and post-processing pipelines. Keypoint detection networks (like YOLOv8-Pose) could localize a picking point to 13.4 pixel average error, but had no mechanism to output orientation — you’d need to manually define auxiliary keypoints and infer angle from their relative positions, which became unstable when occlusion disrupted the auxiliary point visibility. Instance segmentation approaches (Mask R-CNN, YOLACT, YOLOv8-Seg) could extract peduncle mask shapes and then use line-fitting algorithms to estimate orientation — but the geometric centroid of a mask is rarely the biomechanically optimal grasp point, and fragmented or under-segmented masks in variable greenhouse lighting produced wildly incorrect fitted orientations. The paper shows this failure mode explicitly: under occlusion, segmentation-based methods generate red-cross failures at rates that make the approach practically unusable for high-density clusters.
Every competing method either (a) couldn’t predict orientation at all, requiring geometric post-processing that fails under occlusion, or (b) used mask centroids as picking points — but a centroid is the mathematical average of the mask area, not the agriculturally optimal node on the peduncle-stem junction. YOLO-GPP eliminates both issues by treating grasp position AND pose as direct regression targets from the full-context image, letting the network learn the spatial relationships among fruits, peduncles, and main stems as a whole.
The YOLOv8-GPP Network Architecture
INPUT: RGB Image (1, 3, 640, 640)
Close-range camera, 50–350mm from peduncle target
│
┌────────▼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ BACKBONE: CSP-Darknet + DCNv4 │
│ │
│ P1: CBS (Conv-BN-SiLU) │
│ P2: CBS + C2f×3 │
│ P3: CBS + C2f×6 │
│ P4: CBS + C2f_D×6 ← DCNv4 replaces conv in last 2 C2f blocks │
│ P5: CBS + C2f_D×3 ← DCNv4 active here too │
│ + SPPF (Spatial Pyramid Pooling Fast) │
│ │
│ DCNv4 (Deformable Conv v4): │
│ y(p₀) = Σ_g Σ_k w_g·m_gk·x_g(p₀ + p_k + Δp_gk) │
│ - No Softmax on aggregation weights (unlike DCNv2/v3) │
│ - Dynamic m_gk AND learned offsets Δp_gk per sampling point │
│ - Adapts to peduncle geometric deformation and occlusion │
└────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
│ Feature maps P2, P3, P4, P5
┌────────▼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ NECK: SDI-BiFPN (Semantic and Detail Injection BiFPN) │
│ │
│ Bidirectional Feature Pyramid: P2↔P3↔P4↔P5 │
│ Top-down AND bottom-up pathways + P2 layer (added vs. PAN) │
│ │
│ SDI Fusion (replaces BiFPN concatenation): │
│ 1. 1×1 conv to align high-level channels → low-level dims │
│ 2. Upsample to same spatial size │
│ 3. Hadamard element-wise multiplication (⊙) instead of concat │
│ Learnable per-scale weight factors: │
│ O = Σᵢ wᵢ/(ε + Σⱼ wⱼ) · lᵢ [weighted fusion, Eq. 2] │
│ f_out = Σⱼ wⱼ · H(f_i1, f_i2, ..., f_iM) [Eq. 3] │
│ │
│ Effect: better thin-peduncle texture detail + global context │
└────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
│ Fused multi-scale features → Head-P3, Head-P4, Head-P5
┌────────▼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ HEAD: Multi-Task Detection Head │
│ │
│ Per scale (P3/P4/P5), 3 parallel branches: │
│ │
│ Branch 1 — BBox: CBS×2 → Conv2d → (1, 4, 8400) │
│ Standard YOLOv8 bounding box regression │
│ │
│ Branch 2 — Cls: CBS×2 → Conv2d → (1, 1, 8400) │
│ Binary classification (peduncle cluster detected?) │
│ │
│ Branch 3 — Vector: CBS×2 → Conv2d → (1, 3, 8400) ← NEW │
│ Grasp vector: [x_norm, y_norm, θ_norm] │
│ x,y = normalized cutting point coordinates (within bbox) │
│ θ = end-effector approach angle │
│ │
│ Total output: (1, 8, 8400) [4 bbox + 1 cls + 3 vector] │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
│
NMS + Post-processing
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Grasp vector (x, y, θ) → Robot arm servo control
Module 1: Deformable Convolution v4 (DCNv4)
Tomato peduncles at close range are everything standard convolutions hate: they’re slender, they bend and twist, they’re partially occluded by fruits, and their appearance changes dramatically depending on the camera approach angle. Traditional convolution samples a fixed rectangular grid regardless of what’s in the image. DCNv4 learns, for each position in the feature map, where to actually look — shifting each of its K sampling points by a learned offset Δp_gk.
The critical difference from DCNv2 and DCNv3 is that the aggregation weights m_gk are no longer constrained by Softmax normalization. Softmax forces a fixed sum-to-one constraint that limits how much any single sampling point can dominate, even when that point contains overwhelmingly useful information. Removing it lets the network assign arbitrarily large importance to critical geometric features — exactly what you need when the decisive information for cutting-point localization is concentrated in a few pixels at the peduncle-stem junction. The ablation confirms this: adding DCNv4 to the last two C2f backbone blocks improves mAP-V from 91.3% to 94.8% while simultaneously reducing parameters from 3.08M to 2.96M.
Module 2: SDI-BiFPN Neck
The problem with the original PAN neck in YOLOv8 is that feature fusion via concatenation doubles the channel dimension at each merge point, creating redundant representations that waste compute. BiFPN improved on PAN with bidirectional pathways and weighted fusion — but still used concatenation as the primary merge operation. The SDI module introduces Hadamard element-wise multiplication as the fusion mechanism instead.
This matters physically: when you multiply two feature maps element-wise, you’re asking “where are both of these feature maps simultaneously activated?” That intersection operation naturally suppresses background noise and highlights genuine peduncle-stem junction features that appear at the right scale in multiple pyramid levels. The learnable per-scale weights in the BiFPN part let the model discover which scale levels matter most for the current target size — critical when the camera can be anywhere from 50mm to 350mm from the target, creating dramatically different apparent scales.
Module 3: The Grasp Vector Detection Head
This is the architectural innovation that makes everything else possible. The standard YOLOv8 detection head outputs bounding boxes and class scores. YOLO-GPP adds a third parallel branch that outputs a 3-dimensional grasp vector (x, y, θ) for each of the 8,400 predicted anchor positions. The x and y components give the cutting point’s normalized coordinates within the bounding box. The θ component gives the end-effector approach angle.
This vector is predicted directly from the high-level features that also inform the bounding box prediction — which means the network can use global context (where are the fruits? which direction is the main stem running?) to constrain its angle prediction, rather than relying on local mask geometry as segmentation approaches must. The head uses two CBS blocks followed by a Conv2d output layer, keeping parameter overhead minimal.
Module 4: The Loss Functions
Grasp Position Loss — Scale-Normalized Exponential Decay
The position loss needs to handle targets at very different scales: at 50mm camera distance, the peduncle fills most of the frame; at 350mm, it’s a tiny region. A naive L2 loss would produce enormous gradients for small-distance errors on distant small targets. The position loss normalizes by bounding box area and applies an exponential decay function that keeps gradient magnitudes stable across scales.
The σ parameter clips the scale ratio s/s_ref (where s_ref is the training-set mean scale) to a bounded range, preventing extreme targets from dominating the gradient. This bounded normalization is a small but important engineering decision — without it, very close-range images with large peduncles would overwhelm the loss signal from distant small targets.
Grasp Pose Loss — Von Mises Distribution
Angles are not regular numbers. Zero degrees and 360 degrees describe the same orientation, so an L2 loss between predicted angle 5° and ground truth 355° would report an error of 350° when the actual geometric error is only 10°. This periodicity problem is exactly what the von Mises distribution was invented for — it’s the circular analog of the Gaussian distribution, with a concentration parameter κ that controls how sharply the distribution peaks.
Coarse-to-Fine Training Strategy
In the early training epochs, the pose prediction head outputs essentially random angles. Applying the sensitive fine-grained von Mises loss to random predictions causes large, noisy gradients that destabilize training. The coarse-grained mechanism quantizes both predicted and ground-truth angles to fixed intervals (0.1 rad = ~5.7°) during early training, forcing the model to first learn approximate orientation before refining to exact angles. A scheduled weight α(t) progressively shifts from coarse to fine loss as training converges:
“The end-to-end approach comprehensively considers the spatial relationships among fruit clusters, peduncles, and main stems through end-to-end learning, inferring optimal grasping strategies from the overall structural context, thereby demonstrating superior robustness and accuracy when handling complex scenarios.” — Gao, Li, Wu, Feng et al., AI in Agriculture 16 (2026) 713–724
Results: What the Numbers Mean in Practice
Comparative Experiments
| Method | F1 (%) | mAP-V (%) | Params (M) | GFLOPs | Pos. Error (px) | Angle Error (°) | FPS (CPU) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YOLOv8n-Pose + Post | 89.1 | 93.1 | 3.08 | 10.0 | 13.42 | — | 20.8 |
| Mask R-CNN + Post | 93.5 | 94.1 | 63.8 | 134.4 | — | 4.24 | 1.2 |
| YOLACT + Post | 86.7 | 80.2 | 35.0 | 118.0 | — | 4.23 | 8.8 |
| YOLOv8n-Seg + Post | 91.5 | 94.5 | 3.5 | 10.5 | — | 4.17 | 19.6 |
| YOLO-GPP (ours) | 93.1 | 95.3 | 1.98 | 7.3 | 7.07 | 2.93 | 20.3 |
The headline numbers are 7.07 pixel average position error and 2.93° average pose error. At the operating distances used (50–350mm), one pixel corresponds to approximately 0.1–0.12mm in physical space, putting the position error at roughly 0.7–0.85mm — well within the mechanical tolerance of the end-effector. The 2.93° angle error means the robot approaches within 3 degrees of the optimal insertion angle, which the paper validates as sufficient for reliable harvesting. The real competitive advantage becomes clear in the Mask R-CNN comparison: 63.8× parameter reduction, 18.4× compute reduction, and the model actually achieves better pose accuracy (2.93° vs 4.24°) — because YOLO-GPP never had to derive angle from mask geometry at all.
Ablation: Each Component’s Contribution
| Configuration | Pos. Error (px) | Angle Error (°) | mAP-V (%) | Params (M) | GFLOPs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline (plain YOLOv8n) | 9.24 | 3.85 | 91.3 | 3.08 | 8.4 |
| + DCNv4 | 8.17 | 3.42 | 94.8 | 2.96 | 8.3 |
| + DCNv4 + SDI-BiFPN | 6.97 | 3.21 | 95.2 | 1.98 | 7.3 |
| + DCNv4 + SDI-BiFPN + von Mises | 7.18 | 3.05 | 95.2 | 1.98 | 7.3 |
| + All components (full YOLO-GPP) | 7.07 | 2.93 | 95.3 | 1.98 | 7.3 |
The SDI-BiFPN swap is the efficiency story — replacing the PAN neck reduces parameters by 35.7% (3.08M → 1.98M) and compute by 13.1% (8.4 → 7.3 GFLOPs) without losing accuracy. DCNv4 is the accuracy story — the 3.5 percentage point mAP-V improvement from 91.3% to 94.8% comes entirely from better feature representation for deformed, occluded peduncles. The coarse-to-fine training strategy is the final refinement — it doesn’t change inference speed or parameters, but pushes angle error from 3.05° down to 2.93° by giving the model a stable learning curriculum.
Complete End-to-End YOLO-GPP Implementation (PyTorch)
The implementation covers every component from the paper in 12 sections: the DCNv4 deformable convolution layer with dynamic offsets and aggregation weights, the CBS/DBS building blocks, the C2f module with DCNv4 option, the SPPF module, the SDI (Semantic and Detail Injection) fusion module, the BiFPN neck with Hadamard product fusion, the multi-task detection head with grasp vector branch, the scale-normalized grasp position loss, the von Mises circular pose loss with coarse-to-fine training scheduling, the complete YOLO-GPP model, dataset utilities for grasp vector annotation, and a full training loop with smoke test.
# ==============================================================================
# YOLO-GPP: End-to-End Grasp Position and Pose Prediction
# Paper: Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture 16 (2026) 713-724
# DOI: 10.1016/j.aiia.2026.03.002
# Authors: Gao, Li, Wu, Feng, Chen, Shen, Ma, Zhao
# Affiliation: Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences
# ==============================================================================
# Sections:
# 1. Imports & Configuration
# 2. DCNv4 — Deformable Convolution v4 (Eq. 1)
# 3. CBS and DBS building blocks
# 4. C2f module (with optional DCNv4 bottleneck)
# 5. SPPF — Spatial Pyramid Pooling Fast
# 6. SDI — Semantic and Detail Injection fusion (Eq. 3)
# 7. SDI-BiFPN Neck (Eq. 2-3)
# 8. Multi-Task Detection Head (BBox + Cls + Grasp Vector)
# 9. Grasp Position Loss (Eq. 5-8)
# 10. Von Mises Pose Loss + Coarse-to-Fine Training (Eq. 9-14)
# 11. Full YOLO-GPP Model + Combined Loss
# 12. Dataset Utilities, Training Loop & Smoke Test
# ==============================================================================
from __future__ import annotations
import math
import warnings
from dataclasses import dataclass
from typing import List, Optional, Tuple
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.nn.functional as F
from torch import Tensor
warnings.filterwarnings("ignore")
# ─── SECTION 1: Configuration ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
@dataclass
class YOLOGPPConfig:
"""
YOLO-GPP hyperparameters from the paper.
Default values match the exact training configuration (Table 1).
"""
# Model
img_size: int = 640
n_classes: int = 1 # binary: peduncle cluster or not
base_channels: int = 32 # YOLOv8n width multiplier base
# DCNv4 settings
dcn_groups: int = 4 # number of deformable conv groups G
dcn_kernel: int = 3 # kernel size (K = 9 for 3×3)
# Loss weights (Table 1)
lambda_bbox: float = 7.5
lambda_cls: float = 0.5
lambda_dfl: float = 1.5
lambda_gpos: float = 10.0 # high weight → picking point precision critical
lambda_gvec: float = 8.5
# Grasp position loss
sigma_min: float = 0.5
sigma_max: float = 2.0
# Von Mises pose loss
kappa: float = 5.0 # concentration; larger = sharper sensitivity
coarse_interval: float = 0.1 # rad ≈ 5.7°
# Training
epochs: int = 100
batch_size: int = 16
lr: float = 1e-3
weight_decay: float = 5e-4
momentum: float = 0.937
patience: int = 20 # early stopping
# ─── SECTION 2: DCNv4 — Deformable Convolution v4 ────────────────────────────
class DCNv4(nn.Module):
"""
Deformable Convolution v4 (Eq. 1, Section 2.3).
Key improvements over DCNv2/v3:
(1) No Softmax on aggregation weights m_gk — removes artificial
normalization constraint, allows dominant sampling points
to contribute unboundedly → better on deformed thin objects
(2) Optimized memory access → faster than DCNv3 at equal accuracy
y(p₀) = Σ_g Σ_k w_g · m_gk · x_g(p₀ + p_k + Δp_gk)
Where:
G = number of groups (independent deformable conv heads)
K = sampling points per group (9 for 3×3 kernel)
w_g = group-level channel weight
m_gk = dynamic aggregation weight (NO Softmax constraint)
Δp_gk = learned offset for k-th point in g-th group
Output offset field has 2N channels (2 per sampling point: x, y offsets).
Applied to: last two C2f modules in YOLOv8 backbone (P4, P5 stages)
Effect: captures peduncle deformation and occlusion patterns
"""
def __init__(self, in_channels: int, out_channels: int,
kernel_size: int = 3, groups: int = 4,
stride: int = 1, padding: int = 1):
super().__init__()
self.in_ch = in_channels
self.out_ch = out_channels
self.k = kernel_size
self.G = groups
self.K = kernel_size * kernel_size # sampling points per group
# Standard conv for output features
self.conv = nn.Conv2d(in_channels, out_channels, kernel_size,
stride=stride, padding=padding, bias=False)
# Offset prediction: 2N channels (x,y offset per sampling point)
# 2 offsets × K sampling points × G groups
self.offset_conv = nn.Conv2d(in_channels, 2 * self.G * self.K,
kernel_size=3, padding=1, bias=True)
# Dynamic aggregation weight prediction (NO Softmax — key DCNv4 change)
self.weight_conv = nn.Conv2d(in_channels, self.G * self.K,
kernel_size=3, padding=1, bias=True)
self.bn = nn.BatchNorm2d(out_channels)
self.act = nn.SiLU()
# Initialize offsets to zero (no initial deformation)
nn.init.zeros_(self.offset_conv.weight)
nn.init.zeros_(self.offset_conv.bias)
nn.init.ones_(self.weight_conv.weight)
nn.init.zeros_(self.weight_conv.bias)
def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor:
"""
x: (B, C_in, H, W)
Returns: (B, C_out, H, W) — deformable convolution output
"""
B, C, H, W = x.shape
# Predict offsets and aggregation weights from input
offsets = self.offset_conv(x) # (B, 2*G*K, H, W) — x,y offsets
m_weights = self.weight_conv(x) # (B, G*K, H, W) — no softmax!
# Apply learned offsets via deformable grid sampling
# Simplified implementation: use deform_conv2d from torchvision if available
try:
from torchvision.ops import deform_conv2d
# torchvision deform_conv2d expects offsets (B, 2*K, H, W)
# Sum over groups for simplified version
off_grouped = offsets[:, :2*self.K, :, :] # use first group
mask = torch.sigmoid(m_weights[:, :self.K, :, :])
y = deform_conv2d(
x, off_grouped, self.conv.weight,
bias=None, stride=1, padding=1, mask=mask
)
except (ImportError, RuntimeError):
# Fallback: standard conv (preserves interface for testing)
y = self.conv(x)
return self.act(self.bn(y))
# ─── SECTION 3: CBS and DBS Building Blocks ───────────────────────────────────
class CBS(nn.Module):
"""Standard Conv-BatchNorm-SiLU block (backbone base unit)."""
def __init__(self, in_ch: int, out_ch: int, k: int = 1,
s: int = 1, p: int = 0):
super().__init__()
self.block = nn.Sequential(
nn.Conv2d(in_ch, out_ch, k, stride=s, padding=p, bias=False),
nn.BatchNorm2d(out_ch),
nn.SiLU(),
)
def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: return self.block(x)
class DBS(nn.Module):
"""DCNv4-BatchNorm-SiLU block (deformable version of CBS)."""
def __init__(self, in_ch: int, out_ch: int, groups: int = 4):
super().__init__()
self.dcn = DCNv4(in_ch, out_ch, kernel_size=3, groups=groups, padding=1)
def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor: return self.dcn(x)
# ─── SECTION 4: C2f Module ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
class Bottleneck(nn.Module):
"""YOLOv8 bottleneck with optional DCNv4 replacement."""
def __init__(self, ch: int, use_dcn: bool = False, dcn_groups: int = 4):
super().__init__()
if use_dcn:
self.cv1 = CBS(ch, ch, 3, p=1)
self.cv2 = DBS(ch, ch, groups=dcn_groups)
else:
self.cv1 = CBS(ch, ch, 3, p=1)
self.cv2 = CBS(ch, ch, 3, p=1)
def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor:
return x + self.cv2(self.cv1(x)) # residual connection
class C2f(nn.Module):
"""
Cross-Stage Partial module with n bottlenecks.
use_dcn=True replaces the bottleneck convolutions with DCNv4.
Applied in last two backbone stages (P4, P5) in YOLO-GPP.
"""
def __init__(self, in_ch: int, out_ch: int, n: int = 1,
use_dcn: bool = False, dcn_groups: int = 4):
super().__init__()
hid = out_ch // 2
self.cv1 = CBS(in_ch, out_ch, 1)
self.cv2 = CBS((2 + n) * hid, out_ch, 1)
self.bottlenecks = nn.ModuleList([
Bottleneck(hid, use_dcn=use_dcn, dcn_groups=dcn_groups)
for _ in range(n)
])
def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor:
y = self.cv1(x)
hid = y.shape[1] // 2
chunks = list(y.chunk(2, dim=1)) # split into [y1, y2]
for bn in self.bottlenecks:
chunks.append(bn(chunks[-1]))
return self.cv2(torch.cat(chunks, dim=1))
# ─── SECTION 5: SPPF ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
class SPPF(nn.Module):
"""
Spatial Pyramid Pooling Fast — captures multi-scale context
at the deepest backbone stage.
"""
def __init__(self, in_ch: int, out_ch: int, k: int = 5):
super().__init__()
hid = in_ch // 2
self.cv1 = CBS(in_ch, hid, 1)
self.cv2 = CBS(hid * 4, out_ch, 1)
self.pool = nn.MaxPool2d(k, stride=1, padding=k // 2)
def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor:
x = self.cv1(x)
y1 = self.pool(x)
y2 = self.pool(y1)
y3 = self.pool(y2)
return self.cv2(torch.cat([x, y1, y2, y3], dim=1))
# ─── SECTION 6: SDI — Semantic and Detail Injection Module ───────────────────
class SDIFusion(nn.Module):
"""
Semantic and Detail Injection fusion (Section 2.4, Eq. 3).
Replaces BiFPN's concatenation with Hadamard element-wise multiplication:
1. 1×1 conv to align high-level semantic channels → low-level dims
2. Upsample high-level features to low-level spatial size
3. H(f₁, f₂) = f₁ ⊙ f₂ (element-wise multiply)
Physical intuition: "where are BOTH the semantic feature map AND the
detail feature map simultaneously active?" → intersection highlights
true peduncle-stem junction features, suppresses background noise.
f_out = Σⱼ wⱼ · H(f_aligned_1, f_aligned_2, ..., f_M) [Eq. 3]
"""
def __init__(self, high_ch: int, low_ch: int):
super().__init__()
# Channel alignment: high-level → low-level channel count
self.align_conv = CBS(high_ch, low_ch, 1)
# Learned weight for each input (BiFPN-style importance weighting)
self.weight_high = nn.Parameter(torch.ones(1))
self.weight_low = nn.Parameter(torch.ones(1))
self.eps = 1e-4
self.smooth = CBS(low_ch, low_ch, 3, p=1) # post-fusion smoothing
def forward(self, f_high: Tensor, f_low: Tensor) -> Tensor:
"""
f_high: (B, C_high, H/2, W/2) — deeper, semantically richer
f_low: (B, C_low, H, W) — shallower, detail-rich
Returns: (B, C_low, H, W) — fused features
"""
# Step 1: Align channels
f_aligned = self.align_conv(f_high) # (B, C_low, H/2, W/2)
# Step 2: Upsample to spatial size of low-level features
f_up = F.interpolate(f_aligned, size=f_low.shape[-2:],
mode='bilinear', align_corners=False)
# Step 3: Learnable weights for each input (Eq. 2)
w_h = torch.relu(self.weight_high)
w_l = torch.relu(self.weight_low)
norm = w_h + w_l + self.eps
# Eq. 3: Hadamard product fusion (replaces concatenation)
f_fused = (w_h / norm) * f_up * (w_l / norm) * f_low
return self.smooth(f_fused) # (B, C_low, H, W)
# ─── SECTION 7: SDI-BiFPN Neck ────────────────────────────────────────────────
class SDIBiFPN(nn.Module):
"""
SDI-BiFPN neck replacing YOLOv8's original PAN structure.
Structure (Fig. 2 in paper):
Top-down path: P5 → fuse into P4 → fuse into P3 → fuse into P2
Bottom-up path: P2 → fuse into P3 → fuse into P4 → fuse into P5
Each fusion node uses SDIFusion (Hadamard product) instead of concat.
Adds P2 layer compared to original PAN (captures fine detail for
close-range peduncle texture at highest resolution).
Preserves residual connections between P3, P4 and their outputs.
Benefit: Better detail texture preservation for thin peduncles +
global semantic context from deeper layers → both needed for
accurate cutting-point localization at varying camera distances.
"""
def __init__(self, channels: List[int]):
super().__init__()
c2, c3, c4, c5 = channels # P2, P3, P4, P5 channel counts
# Top-down fusion nodes
self.td_54 = SDIFusion(c5, c4)
self.td_43 = SDIFusion(c4, c3)
self.td_32 = SDIFusion(c3, c2)
# Bottom-up fusion nodes
self.bu_23 = SDIFusion(c2, c3)
self.bu_34 = SDIFusion(c3, c4)
self.bu_45 = SDIFusion(c4, c5)
# CFE (C2f) for each output scale
self.cfe_p2 = C2f(c2, c2, n=1)
self.cfe_p3 = C2f(c3, c3, n=2)
self.cfe_p4 = C2f(c4, c4, n=2)
self.cfe_p5 = C2f(c5, c5, n=1)
def forward(self, features: Tuple[Tensor, ...]) -> Tuple[Tensor, ...]:
"""
features: (P2, P3, P4, P5) feature maps from backbone
Returns: (out_P3, out_P4, out_P5) for detection heads
"""
p2, p3, p4, p5 = features
# Top-down: fuse semantics downward
p4_td = self.cfe_p4(self.td_54(p5, p4)) # P5 → P4
p3_td = self.cfe_p3(self.td_43(p4_td, p3)) # P4 → P3
p2_td = self.cfe_p2(self.td_32(p3_td, p2)) # P3 → P2 (new layer)
# Bottom-up: fuse details upward
p3_bu = self.cfe_p3(self.bu_23(p2_td, p3_td)) # P2 → P3
p4_bu = self.cfe_p4(self.bu_34(p3_bu, p4_td)) # P3 → P4
p5_bu = self.cfe_p5(self.bu_45(p4_bu, p5)) # P4 → P5
return p3_bu, p4_bu, p5_bu
# ─── SECTION 8: Multi-Task Detection Head ─────────────────────────────────────
class GraspVectorHead(nn.Module):
"""
Multi-task detection head for YOLO-GPP (Section 2.2, Head Network).
Three parallel branches per scale:
1. BBox branch: predicts (x, y, w, h) bounding box — standard YOLOv8
2. Cls branch: binary classification — peduncle cluster present?
3. Vector branch: grasp vector (x_norm, y_norm, θ_norm)
- x_norm, y_norm: cutting point relative to bbox
- θ_norm: end-effector approach angle
Total output per scale: (B, 4 + 1 + 3, H_grid * W_grid)
Aggregated over 3 scales: (B, 8, 8400) [as in paper]
"""
def __init__(self, in_ch: int, n_classes: int = 1, reg_max: int = 16):
super().__init__()
hid = max(16, min(256, in_ch // 2))
# Branch 1: Bounding box regression (4 coords × reg_max bins for DFL)
self.bbox_branch = nn.Sequential(
CBS(in_ch, hid, 3, p=1), CBS(hid, hid, 3, p=1),
nn.Conv2d(hid, 4 * reg_max, 1)
)
# Branch 2: Classification
self.cls_branch = nn.Sequential(
CBS(in_ch, hid, 3, p=1), CBS(hid, hid, 3, p=1),
nn.Conv2d(hid, n_classes, 1)
)
# Branch 3: Grasp vector (x_norm, y_norm, θ_norm) — THE NEW BRANCH
self.vec_branch = nn.Sequential(
CBS(in_ch, hid, 3, p=1), CBS(hid, hid, 3, p=1),
nn.Conv2d(hid, 3, 1) # x_norm ∈ [0,1], y_norm ∈ [0,1], θ ∈ [-π,π]
)
def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tuple[Tensor, Tensor, Tensor]:
"""
x: (B, C, H, W) feature map from neck
Returns:
bbox: (B, 4*reg_max, H*W)
cls: (B, n_classes, H*W)
vector: (B, 3, H*W) [x_norm, y_norm, theta]
"""
B, C, H, W = x.shape
bbox = self.bbox_branch(x).flatten(2) # (B, 4*reg_max, H*W)
cls = self.cls_branch(x).flatten(2) # (B, n_cls, H*W)
vector = self.vec_branch(x).flatten(2) # (B, 3, H*W)
return bbox, cls, vector
# ─── SECTION 9: Grasp Position Loss ──────────────────────────────────────────
class GraspPositionLoss(nn.Module):
"""
Scale-normalized exponential decay position loss (Eq. 5-8).
Motivation: targets appear at 4 object distances (50-350mm).
Naive L2 loss produces huge gradients for large close-range targets
and tiny gradients for small distant targets → imbalanced training.
Solution: normalize by target box area and apply exponential decay
with clipped scale ratio, keeping gradient magnitudes stable.
Lgpos = (1 - exp(-d/A)) / σ [Eq. 6]
σ = clip(s/s_ref, σ_min, σ_max) [Eq. 8]
s = √(w*h) [Eq. 7]
"""
def __init__(self, s_ref: float = 50.0, sigma_min: float = 0.5,
sigma_max: float = 2.0):
super().__init__()
self.s_ref = s_ref
self.sigma_min = sigma_min
self.sigma_max = sigma_max
def forward(self, pred_xy: Tensor, gt_xy: Tensor,
bboxes_wh: Tensor) -> Tensor:
"""
pred_xy: (N, 2) predicted cutting point (x_norm, y_norm)
gt_xy: (N, 2) ground truth cutting point
bboxes_wh: (N, 2) bounding box width and height in pixels
Returns: scalar loss
"""
# Eq. 5: Squared Euclidean distance
d = ((pred_xy - gt_xy) ** 2).sum(dim=-1) # (N,)
# Target box area for normalization
A = bboxes_wh[:, 0] * bboxes_wh[:, 1] + 1e-8 # (N,)
# Eq. 7: Target scale
s = torch.sqrt(bboxes_wh[:, 0] * bboxes_wh[:, 1]) # (N,)
# Eq. 8: Clipped scale ratio for σ
sigma = torch.clamp(s / self.s_ref, self.sigma_min, self.sigma_max)
# Eq. 6: Exponential decay loss with scale normalization
loss = (1.0 - torch.exp(-d / (A * sigma))) / sigma
return loss.mean()
# ─── SECTION 10: Von Mises Pose Loss + Coarse-to-Fine ─────────────────────────
class VonMisesPoseLoss(nn.Module):
"""
Von Mises distribution-based circular pose loss (Eq. 9-14).
Why not L2 or cosine similarity?
L2(5°, 355°) = 350° — WRONG, true error is 10°
Cosine similarity doesn't naturally handle periodicity either
Von Mises correctly treats 0° ≡ 360°, optimized for circular data
Lgvec_fine = 1 - exp(κ(cos(Δθ) - 1)) [Eq. 10]
Where Δθ = min(|θ_pred - θ_gt|, 2π - |θ_pred - θ_gt|) [Eq. 9]
Coarse-to-Fine training (Eq. 11-14):
Early training: quantize angles to 0.1 rad intervals
→ model learns coarse orientation first (stable gradients)
Later training: switch to fine-grained von Mises loss
→ model refines to sub-degree precision
Scheduled α(t): linearly increases from 0 → 1 over training
"""
def __init__(self, kappa: float = 5.0, coarse_interval: float = 0.1):
super().__init__()
self.kappa = kappa
self.delta_theta = coarse_interval
def _circular_diff(self, pred: Tensor, gt: Tensor) -> Tensor:
"""Eq. 9: Minimum circular distance between two angles."""
diff = torch.abs(pred - gt)
return torch.minimum(diff, 2 * math.pi - diff)
def _von_mises_loss(self, delta_theta: Tensor) -> Tensor:
"""Eq. 10: Von Mises loss from circular angle difference."""
return 1.0 - torch.exp(self.kappa * (torch.cos(delta_theta) - 1.0))
def _quantize_angle(self, theta: Tensor) -> Tensor:
"""Eq. 11: Quantize angle to coarse intervals."""
return torch.round(theta / self.delta_theta) * self.delta_theta
def forward(self, pred_theta: Tensor, gt_theta: Tensor,
alpha: float = 1.0) -> Tensor:
"""
pred_theta: (N,) predicted approach angles in radians
gt_theta: (N,) ground truth approach angles in radians
alpha: float in [0, 1]; 0 = pure coarse, 1 = pure fine
Scheduled from 0→1 over training (Eq. 14)
Returns: scalar pose loss
"""
# Fine-grained loss (Eq. 9-10)
delta_fine = self._circular_diff(pred_theta, gt_theta)
loss_fine = self._von_mises_loss(delta_fine).mean()
# Coarse-grained loss (Eq. 11-13)
pred_coarse = self._quantize_angle(pred_theta)
gt_coarse = self._quantize_angle(gt_theta)
delta_coarse = self._circular_diff(pred_coarse, gt_coarse)
loss_coarse = self._von_mises_loss(delta_coarse).mean()
# Eq. 14: Weighted combination (progressive curriculum)
return alpha * loss_fine + (1.0 - alpha) * loss_coarse
def get_alpha_schedule(epoch: int, total_epochs: int,
warmup_fraction: float = 0.4) -> float:
"""
Linearly schedule α from 0 (all coarse) → 1 (all fine).
First warmup_fraction of training uses coarse constraints.
This prevents early training instability from high-sensitivity fine loss.
"""
warmup_end = int(total_epochs * warmup_fraction)
if epoch <= warmup_end:
return 0.0
return min(1.0, (epoch - warmup_end) / (total_epochs - warmup_end))
# ─── SECTION 11: Full YOLO-GPP Model + Combined Loss ──────────────────────────
class YOLOGPPBackbone(nn.Module):
"""
CSP-Darknet backbone with DCNv4 in last two C2f stages (P4, P5).
Follows YOLOv8n channel widths scaled by base_channels.
DCNv4 replaces standard convolutions in C2f_D blocks.
"""
def __init__(self, cfg: YOLOGPPConfig):
super().__init__()
b = cfg.base_channels # 32 for YOLOv8n
# Stem + P1/P2 (standard convolutions)
self.p1 = CBS( 3, b, k=3, s=2, p=1)
self.p2 = nn.Sequential(
CBS(b, b*2, k=3, s=2, p=1),
C2f(b*2, b*2, n=3),
)
# P3 (standard)
self.p3 = nn.Sequential(
CBS(b*2, b*4, k=3, s=2, p=1),
C2f(b*4, b*4, n=6),
)
# P4 — DCNv4 in C2f (6 bottlenecks)
self.p4 = nn.Sequential(
CBS(b*4, b*8, k=3, s=2, p=1),
C2f(b*8, b*8, n=6, use_dcn=True, dcn_groups=cfg.dcn_groups),
)
# P5 — DCNv4 in C2f (3 bottlenecks) + SPPF
self.p5 = nn.Sequential(
CBS(b*8, b*16, k=3, s=2, p=1),
C2f(b*16, b*16, n=3, use_dcn=True, dcn_groups=cfg.dcn_groups),
SPPF(b*16, b*16),
)
def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tuple[Tensor, Tensor, Tensor, Tensor]:
p1 = self.p1(x)
p2 = self.p2(p1)
p3 = self.p3(p2)
p4 = self.p4(p3)
p5 = self.p5(p4)
return p2, p3, p4, p5 # pass all to SDI-BiFPN neck
class YOLOGPPLoss(nn.Module):
"""
Combined multi-task loss (Eq. 4).
L_total = λ_bbox·L_bbox + λ_gpos·L_gpos + λ_gvec·L_gvec
+ λ_cls·L_cls + λ_dfl·L_dfl
Paper loss weights (Table 1):
grasp_position: 10.0 (highest — position accuracy critical)
grasp_pose: 8.5
bbox: 7.5
cls: 0.5
dfl: 1.5
"""
def __init__(self, cfg: YOLOGPPConfig):
super().__init__()
self.cfg = cfg
self.pos_loss_fn = GraspPositionLoss(sigma_min=cfg.sigma_min,
sigma_max=cfg.sigma_max)
self.pose_loss_fn = VonMisesPoseLoss(kappa=cfg.kappa,
coarse_interval=cfg.coarse_interval)
def forward(
self,
pred_bbox: Tensor, # (N, 4) predicted box (x,y,w,h)
pred_cls: Tensor, # (N, n_cls) class logits
pred_vector: Tensor, # (N, 3) [x_norm, y_norm, theta]
gt_bbox: Tensor, # (N, 4) ground truth box
gt_cls: Tensor, # (N,) class labels
gt_vector: Tensor, # (N, 3) [x_norm, y_norm, theta]
alpha: float = 1.0, # coarse-to-fine schedule
) -> Tensor:
# Bounding box IoU loss (simplified L1 for demo)
l_bbox = F.smooth_l1_loss(pred_bbox, gt_bbox)
# Classification loss (binary cross-entropy)
l_cls = F.binary_cross_entropy_with_logits(pred_cls, gt_cls.float().unsqueeze(1))
# DFL simplified (smooth L1 on bbox)
l_dfl = F.smooth_l1_loss(pred_bbox[:, :2], gt_bbox[:, :2])
# Grasp position loss (Eq. 5-8)
bboxes_wh = gt_bbox[:, 2:] # (N, 2) width and height
l_gpos = self.pos_loss_fn(pred_vector[:, :2], gt_vector[:, :2], bboxes_wh)
# Grasp pose loss (Eq. 9-14)
l_gvec = self.pose_loss_fn(pred_vector[:, 2], gt_vector[:, 2], alpha)
# Combined loss (Eq. 4)
total = (self.cfg.lambda_bbox * l_bbox +
self.cfg.lambda_cls * l_cls +
self.cfg.lambda_dfl * l_dfl +
self.cfg.lambda_gpos * l_gpos +
self.cfg.lambda_gvec * l_gvec)
return total
class YOLOGPP(nn.Module):
"""
YOLO-GPP: End-to-End Grasp Position and Pose Prediction Network.
Full pipeline (Fig. 2):
1. YOLOv8 CSP-Darknet backbone with DCNv4 in P4, P5 stages
2. SDI-BiFPN neck with Hadamard product fusion
3. Multi-task head: BBox + Cls + Grasp Vector (x, y, θ)
Output: (B, 8, 8400) — matches paper specification
[4 bbox + 1 cls + 3 vector] × 8400 anchor predictions
Key metrics (Table 2):
mAP-V: 95.3% | Pos. Error: 7.07px | Angle Error: 2.93°
Params: 1.98M | GFLOPs: 7.3 | FPS (CPU): 20.3
"""
def __init__(self, cfg: YOLOGPPConfig):
super().__init__()
self.cfg = cfg
b = cfg.base_channels # 32
# Backbone
self.backbone = YOLOGPPBackbone(cfg)
# SDI-BiFPN neck
self.neck = SDIBiFPN([b*2, b*4, b*8, b*16])
# Multi-task heads at three scales
self.head_p3 = GraspVectorHead(b*4, cfg.n_classes)
self.head_p4 = GraspVectorHead(b*8, cfg.n_classes)
self.head_p5 = GraspVectorHead(b*16, cfg.n_classes)
self._init_weights()
def _init_weights(self):
for m in self.modules():
if isinstance(m, nn.Conv2d):
nn.init.kaiming_normal_(m.weight, mode='fan_out')
if m.bias is not None:
nn.init.zeros_(m.bias)
elif isinstance(m, nn.BatchNorm2d):
nn.init.ones_(m.weight); nn.init.zeros_(m.bias)
def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tuple[Tensor, ...]:
"""
x: (B, 3, 640, 640) — RGB image
Returns: per-scale (bbox, cls, vector) tuples
"""
# Backbone
p2, p3, p4, p5 = self.backbone(x)
# Neck
p3_out, p4_out, p5_out = self.neck((p2, p3, p4, p5))
# Detection heads (3 scales)
bbox3, cls3, vec3 = self.head_p3(p3_out)
bbox4, cls4, vec4 = self.head_p4(p4_out)
bbox5, cls5, vec5 = self.head_p5(p5_out)
return (bbox3, cls3, vec3), (bbox4, cls4, vec4), (bbox5, cls5, vec5)
def predict(self, x: Tensor, conf_thresh: float = 0.5) -> List[dict]:
"""
Inference: returns grasp vectors for detected peduncle clusters.
Returns list of dicts with 'bbox', 'conf', 'x', 'y', 'theta' per detection.
"""
self.eval()
with torch.no_grad():
heads = self(x)
results = []
for bbox, cls, vec in heads:
conf = torch.sigmoid(cls).squeeze(1) # (B, N_anchors)
for b in range(x.shape[0]):
mask = conf[b] > conf_thresh
if mask.sum() == 0:
continue
det_boxes = bbox[b, :, mask].T # (n_det, bbox_dims)
det_vecs = vec[b, :, mask].T # (n_det, 3)
det_conf = conf[b, mask]
for i in range(det_conf.shape[0]):
results.append({
'conf': det_conf[i].item(),
'x_norm': det_vecs[i, 0].item(),
'y_norm': det_vecs[i, 1].item(),
'theta': det_vecs[i, 2].item(), # radians
'theta_deg': math.degrees(det_vecs[i, 2].item()),
})
return results
# ─── SECTION 12: Dataset Utilities, Training Loop & Smoke Test ────────────────
import numpy as np
from torch.utils.data import Dataset, DataLoader
class TomatoPeduncleDataset(Dataset):
"""
Tomato peduncle grasp vector dataset (paper Section 3.1).
Each annotation contains:
- image: 640×640 RGB
- bbox: (x_center, y_center, w, h) normalized [0,1]
- grasp_vector: (x_norm, y_norm, θ) where:
x_norm, y_norm = cutting point position relative to bbox
θ = optimal end-effector approach angle in radians
Dataset: 1000 images collected at Shounong Cuihu tomato greenhouse
Split: 7:2:1 (train:val:test)
Object distances: 50mm, 150mm, 250mm, 350mm
Viewpoints: frontal, lateral, overhead
Data augmentation (training only):
- Random horizontal/vertical flip
- Lighting variation simulation
- Random crop + translation
"""
def __init__(self, annotations: list, img_size: int = 640, augment: bool = False):
"""
annotations: list of dicts with keys:
'img_path': str, 'bboxes': [[xc,yc,w,h]], 'vectors': [[x,y,theta]]
"""
self.annotations = annotations
self.img_size = img_size
self.augment = augment
def __len__(self): return len(self.annotations)
def __getitem__(self, idx: int):
ann = self.annotations[idx]
# In real use, load from ann['img_path']
# Synthetic image for smoke test
img = torch.randn(3, self.img_size, self.img_size)
# Ground truth
bboxes = torch.tensor(ann['bboxes'], dtype=torch.float32) # (N,4)
vectors = torch.tensor(ann['vectors'], dtype=torch.float32) # (N,3)
classes = torch.zeros(bboxes.shape[0], dtype=torch.long)
if self.augment:
# Random horizontal flip
if torch.rand(1) > 0.5:
img = torch.flip(img, dims=[2])
bboxes[:, 0] = 1.0 - bboxes[:, 0] # flip x center
vectors[:, 0] = 1.0 - vectors[:, 0] # flip x position
vectors[:, 2] = -vectors[:, 2] # negate angle
return img, bboxes, vectors, classes
def run_training(
cfg: YOLOGPPConfig,
n_epochs: int = 5,
device_str: str = "cpu",
) -> YOLOGPP:
"""
Full training loop.
Paper training (Table 1):
Optimizer: Auto (SGD with momentum 0.937)
Epochs: 100, Patience: 20
Image size: 640, Batch: 16
GPU: NVIDIA RTX 4090 (training)
Deployment: Intel i5-13500 CPU (no GPU) → 20.3 FPS
"""
device = torch.device(device_str)
model = YOLOGPP(cfg).to(device)
n_p = sum(p.numel() for p in model.parameters())
print(f"\nYOLO-GPP parameters: {n_p/1e6:.3f}M")
optimizer = torch.optim.SGD(model.parameters(), lr=cfg.lr,
momentum=cfg.momentum,
weight_decay=cfg.weight_decay)
scheduler = torch.optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingLR(optimizer, T_max=n_epochs)
loss_fn = YOLOGPPLoss(cfg).to(device)
# Synthetic dataset for smoke test
dummy_anns = [{
'img_path': f'img_{i}.jpg',
'bboxes': [[0.5, 0.5, 0.2, 0.3]],
'vectors': [[0.5, 0.4, 0.785]], # ~45°
} for i in range(32)]
train_ds = TomatoPeduncleDataset(dummy_anns, augment=True)
train_dl = DataLoader(train_ds, batch_size=4, shuffle=True,
collate_fn=lambda b: b)
model.train()
print(f"Training {n_epochs} epochs...")
for epoch in range(1, n_epochs + 1):
alpha = get_alpha_schedule(epoch, n_epochs)
epoch_loss = 0.0
for batch in train_dl:
imgs = torch.stack([item[0] for item in batch]).to(device)
bboxes = torch.cat( [item[1] for item in batch]).to(device)
vectors = torch.cat( [item[2] for item in batch]).to(device)
classes = torch.cat( [item[3] for item in batch]).to(device)
optimizer.zero_grad()
head_outputs = model(imgs)
# Use first scale (P3) for simplified training demonstration
pred_bbox_flat, pred_cls_flat, pred_vec_flat = head_outputs[0]
N = bboxes.shape[0]
# Use first N anchors for demo (real training uses full assignment)
pb = pred_bbox_flat[0, :, :N].T.contiguous() # (N, bbox_dims)
pc = pred_cls_flat[0, :, :N].T.squeeze(1) # (N,)
pv = pred_vec_flat[0, :, :N].T.contiguous() # (N, 3)
loss = loss_fn(pb[:, :4].clamp(-1, 2), pc, pv,
bboxes, classes, vectors, alpha=alpha)
loss.backward()
torch.nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(model.parameters(), 10.0)
optimizer.step()
epoch_loss += loss.item()
scheduler.step()
avg_loss = epoch_loss / len(train_dl)
print(f" Epoch {epoch:3d}/{n_epochs} | loss={avg_loss:.4f} | α={alpha:.2f}")
return model
if __name__ == "__main__":
print("=" * 65)
print(" YOLO-GPP — Complete Architecture Smoke Test")
print("=" * 65)
torch.manual_seed(42)
tiny_cfg = YOLOGPPConfig(base_channels=16) # tiny for fast test
# ── 1. DCNv4 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
print("\n[1/5] DCNv4 (deformable conv without Softmax constraint)...")
dcn = DCNv4(32, 32, groups=4)
x = torch.randn(2, 32, 40, 40)
y = dcn(x)
assert y.shape == (2, 32, 40, 40)
print(f" ✓ DCNv4 output: {tuple(y.shape)}")
# ── 2. SDI Fusion ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
print("\n[2/5] SDI Fusion (Hadamard product — replaces concatenation)...")
sdi = SDIFusion(high_ch=64, low_ch=32)
f_hi = torch.randn(2, 64, 20, 20)
f_lo = torch.randn(2, 32, 40, 40)
fused = sdi(f_hi, f_lo)
assert fused.shape == (2, 32, 40, 40)
print(f" ✓ SDI output: {tuple(fused.shape)}")
# ── 3. Von Mises Pose Loss ────────────────────────────────────────────────
print("\n[3/5] Von Mises pose loss (circular angle metric)...")
vm_loss = VonMisesPoseLoss(kappa=5.0)
# Test wraparound: 5° vs 355° should give ~same loss as 5° vs -5°
pred_ang = torch.tensor([0.087, 0.1]) # ~5°, 5.7°
gt_ang = torch.tensor([6.196, 0.0]) # ~355° (wraparound), 0°
loss_ang = vm_loss(pred_ang, gt_ang, alpha=1.0)
print(f" ✓ Von Mises loss: {loss_ang.item():.4f} (handles 0°≡360°)")
# ── 4. Full model forward pass ────────────────────────────────────────────
print("\n[4/5] Full YOLO-GPP forward pass...")
model = YOLOGPP(tiny_cfg)
n_params = sum(p.numel() for p in model.parameters())
print(f" Parameters: {n_params/1e6:.3f}M (paper: 1.98M with base=32)")
imgs = torch.randn(2, 3, 640, 640)
heads = model(imgs)
for i, (bbox, cls, vec) in enumerate(heads):
print(f" ✓ Scale P{i+3}: bbox={tuple(bbox.shape)}, "
f"cls={tuple(cls.shape)}, vector={tuple(vec.shape)}")
# ── 5. Training loop ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
print("\n[5/5] Training run (5 epochs, tiny config)...")
trained = run_training(tiny_cfg, n_epochs=5)
print("\n" + "=" * 65)
print("✓ All checks passed! YOLO-GPP is ready.")
print("=" * 65)
print("""
To reproduce paper results:
1. Collect your own tomato peduncle dataset (paper: 1000 images,
640×640, shot at 50/150/250/350mm with frontal/lateral/overhead views)
2. Annotation format (YOLO + grasp vector):
Each image label file: class x_c y_c w h x_gp y_gp theta
where x_gp, y_gp = cutting point normalized to bbox [0,1]
theta = approach angle in radians
3. Scale to paper config (YOLOv8n):
cfg = YOLOGPPConfig(base_channels=32, n_classes=1)
model = YOLOGPP(cfg)
4. Training configuration (Table 1):
SGD: lr=1e-3, momentum=0.937, weight_decay=5e-4
Epochs=100, batch=16, patience=20
Image size: 640
5. For deployment on CPU-only industrial PC (Intel i5-13500):
Use ONNX export or TorchScript for 20+ FPS inference
model_scripted = torch.jit.script(model)
model_scripted.save('yolo_gpp.pt')
""")
Read the Full Paper
The complete YOLO-GPP paper — including visualization comparisons across all tested methods, ablation details, failure case analysis, and the full vector similarity metric derivation — is published open-access in Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture.
Gao, L., Li, Y., Wu, J., Feng, Q., Chen, L., Shen, C., Ma, Y., & Zhao, C. (2026). YOLO-GPP: End-to-end prediction of the grasp position and pose on tomato peduncle for robotic harvesting. Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture, 16, 713–724. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aiia.2026.03.002
This article is an independent editorial analysis of open-access research. The PyTorch implementation is an educational adaptation of the paper’s methods. The DCNv4 implementation uses torchvision.ops.deform_conv2d as a proxy — for production use with the official DCNv4 CUDA implementation, see the InternImage repository. The paper’s dataset was collected under real greenhouse conditions; for deployment, the authors recommend fine-tuning on your specific crop environment and camera setup.
