Abstract:To address detection challenges such as image blur, low resolution, and occlusions in the analysis of student experimental behaviors often caused by equipment limitations and environmental interference, this paper presents an improved YOLO11-based algorithm named HMS-YOLO11 for detecting student behaviors during experiments. The algorithm introduces a High-frequency Enhanced Residual Block (HFERB) to enhance the C3k2 module, strengthening the extraction of high-frequency details (e.g., edges and textures) and thereby improving feature discriminability in low-resolution scenarios. A Multi-branch Auxiliary Feature Pyramid Network (MAFPN) is designed, which incorporates detail enhancement and semantic enhancement branches to boost multi-scale feature fusion and spatial representation, leading to higher detection accuracy. Furthermore, a lightweight SEAM attention module is embedded into the detection head to effectively reduce missed and false detections caused by occlusions. Experimental results show that the proposed HMS-YOLO11 achieves 90.9% mAP50, 66.5% mAP50-95, and 89.1% recall on a self-built dataset, surpassing the baseline model by 2.2%, 1.7%, and 4.6%, respectively, while also reducing both parameter count and computational cost.