The field of banana-string detection has taken a big or little step with publication of this new study:
“Target detection of banana string and fruit stalk based on YOLOv3 deep learning network,” Rihong Zhang, Xiaomin Li, Lixue Zhu, Maokun Zhong, and Yihua Gao, in 2021 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things Engineering (ICBAIE), pp. 346-349. IEEE, 2021. The authors, at Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, China, explain:
“The average accuracy of banana stalk and banana string target detection is 88.45% and 97.96% respectively.”