Mingyang He

To address the challenges of low accuracy and poor robustness in industrial crayfish weight estimation caused by variable postures, this paper proposes a lightweight method that integrates pose awareness. First, a multi-task perception model, Crayfish-YOLO, is developed based on the YOLOv8s-Seg framework. By reconstructing the backbone with MobileNetV3 and integrating Coordinate Attention (CA), CARAFE upsampling, and the Wise Intersection over Union (Wise-IoU) loss function, the model is significantly compressed while enhancing its ability to output high-fidelity pixel-level masks and pose categories. Second, a pose-adaptive weight estimation strategy is proposed, which leverages perceived pose information to dynamically invoke the optimal regression model from a pre-constructed heterogeneous model library. Using seven core geometric features extracted from the segmentation masks, the system achieves precise weight estimation. Experimental results on a self-built dataset show that Crayfish-YOLO reduces parameters by 75.2% compared to YOLOv8s-Seg, while core segmentation accuracy (mAP_50~95 (Seg)) improves by 1.1%. The integrated end-to-end system achieves a Mean Absolute Error (MAE) of 2.1 g and a mean coefficient of determination (R²) of 0.92, significantly outperforming comparative algorithms. This research provides an efficient visual perception and estimation solution for the automated grading of crayfish and similar non-rigid aquatic products.