{"id":2095,"date":"2026-04-02T18:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iweb20wp-b205b.url.tku.edu.tw\/jase\/?post_type=tkuisotope&p=2095"},"modified":"2026-05-11T22:19:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:19:50","slug":"pill-counting-method-for-strip-plate-slots-based-on-yolov12","status":"publish","type":"tkuisotope","link":"\/jase\/?tkuisotope=pill-counting-method-for-strip-plate-slots-based-on-yolov12","title":{"rendered":"Pill Counting Method for Strip Plate Slots Based on YOLOv12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Qingwu Shi, Maotong Qin, Xu Du<\/i><\/a>, and Huaqi Zhaoa<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

School of Information and Electronic Engineering, Jiamusi University, Jiamusi 154007, China<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Received: August 14, 2025
Accepted: September 30, 2025
Publication Date: April 2, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In the modern pharmaceutical industry, automated pill counting is a critical step in the production process. However, traditional methods often fail to meet the demands of high-speed and real-time detection in terms of accuracy and efficiency. This paper, motivated by the application of strip-type pill counting machines in pharmaceutical manufacturing, proposes a pill counting and missing pill detection method within elongated strip plate holes using the YOLOv12 model. The method is capable of identifying three pill states-missing pill, single pill, and two pills vertically overlapped within a single slot-and then determines the pill quantity based on the corresponding identified states. In this study, a custom dataset was constructed, and the collected images were manually annotated. The CBAM (Convolutional Block Attention Module) attention mechanism was integrated into the YOLOv12 model to enhance its focus on small pill targets and critical regions. Additionally, negative samples were incorporated into the dataset to improve the model\u2019s ability to distinguish between background and missing pill states. With a parameter size of 2.6 M and a computational complexity of
6.4 GFLOPs, the model maintains low computational cost and lightweight characteristics while achieving high-precision detection of pill quantities and missing pill states<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keywords: YOLOv12;Strip-type pill counting; CBAM; Object detection; Small object detection<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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