Blockchain technology can solve the problem of trust in the open network in a decentralized way. It has broad application prospects and has attracted extensive attention from academia and industry. The blockchain consensus algorithm ensures that the nodes in the chain reach consensus in the complex network environment, and the node status ultimately remains the same. The consensus algorithm is one of the core technologies of blockchain and plays a pivotal role in the research of blockchain technology. This article gives the basic concepts of the blockchain, summarizes the key technologies of the blockchain, especially focuses on the research of the blockchain consensus algorithm, expounds the general principles of the consensus process, and classifies the mainstream consensus algorithms. Then, focusing on the improvement of consensus algorithm performance, it reviews the research progress of consensus algorithms in detail, analyzes and compares the characteristics, suitable scenarios, and possible shortcomings of different consensus algorithms, and based on this, studies the future development trend of consensus algorithms for reference.
Traditional pest detection methods are challenging to use in complex forestry environments due to their low accuracy and speed. To address this issue, this paper proposes the YOLOv4_MF model. The YOLOv4_MF model utilizes MobileNetv2 as the feature extraction block and replaces the traditional convolution with depth-wise separated convolution to reduce the model parameters. In addition, the coordinate attention mechanism was embedded in MobileNetv2 to enhance feature information. A symmetric structure consisting of a three-layer spatial pyramid pool is presented, and an improved feature fusion structure was designed to fuse the target information. For the loss function, focal loss was used instead of cross-entropy loss to enhance the network’s learning of small targets. The experimental results showed that the YOLOv4_MF model has 4.24% higher mAP, 4.37% higher precision, and 6.68% higher recall than the YOLOv4 model. The size of the proposed model was reduced to 1/6 of that of YOLOv4. Moreover, the proposed algorithm achieved 38.62% mAP with respect to some state-of-the-art algorithms on the COCO dataset.
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