The ubiquity of mobile devices has driven advancements in mobile object detection.However,challenges in multi-scale object detection in open,complex environments persist due to limited computational resources.Traditio...The ubiquity of mobile devices has driven advancements in mobile object detection.However,challenges in multi-scale object detection in open,complex environments persist due to limited computational resources.Traditional approaches like network compression,quantization,and lightweight design often sacrifice accuracy or feature representation robustness.This article introduces the Fast Multi-scale Channel Shuffling Network(FMCSNet),a novel lightweight detection model optimized for mobile devices.FMCSNet integrates a fully convolutional Multilayer Perceptron(MLP)module,offering global perception without significantly increasing parameters,effectively bridging the gap between CNNs and Vision Transformers.FMCSNet achieves a delicate balance between computation and accuracy mainly by two key modules:the ShiftMLP module,including a shift operation and an MLP module,and a Partial group Convolutional(PGConv)module,reducing computation while enhancing information exchange between channels.With a computational complexity of 1.4G FLOPs and 1.3M parameters,FMCSNet outperforms CNN-based and DWConv-based ShuffleNetv2 by 1%and 4.5%mAP on the Pascal VOC 2007 dataset,respectively.Additionally,FMCSNet achieves a mAP of 30.0(0.5:0.95 IoU threshold)with only 2.5G FLOPs and 2.0M parameters.It achieves 32 FPS on low-performance i5-series CPUs,meeting real-time detection requirements.The versatility of the PGConv module’s adaptability across scenarios further highlights FMCSNet as a promising solution for real-time mobile object detection.展开更多
In foggy traffic scenarios, existing object detection algorithms face challenges such as low detection accuracy, poor robustness, occlusion, missed detections, and false detections. To address this issue, a multi-scal...In foggy traffic scenarios, existing object detection algorithms face challenges such as low detection accuracy, poor robustness, occlusion, missed detections, and false detections. To address this issue, a multi-scale object detection algorithm based on an improved YOLOv8 has been proposed. Firstly, a lightweight attention mechanism, Triplet Attention, is introduced to enhance the algorithm’s ability to extract multi-dimensional and multi-scale features, thereby improving the receptive capability of the feature maps. Secondly, the Diverse Branch Block (DBB) is integrated into the CSP Bottleneck with two Convolutions (C2F) module to strengthen the fusion of semantic information across different layers. Thirdly, a new decoupled detection head is proposed by redesigning the original network head based on the Diverse Branch Block module to improve detection accuracy and reduce missed and false detections. Finally, the Minimum Point Distance based Intersection-over-Union (MPDIoU) is used to replace the original YOLOv8 Complete Intersection-over-Union (CIoU) to accelerate the network’s training convergence. Comparative experiments and dehazing pre-processing tests were conducted on the RTTS and VOC-Fog datasets. Compared to the baseline YOLOv8 model, the improved algorithm achieved mean Average Precision (mAP) improvements of 4.6% and 3.8%, respectively. After defogging pre-processing, the mAP increased by 5.3% and 4.4%, respectively. The experimental results demonstrate that the improved algorithm exhibits high practicality and effectiveness in foggy traffic scenarios.展开更多
While moving ahead with the object detection technology, especially deep neural networks, many related tasks, such as medical application and industrial automation, have achieved great success. However, the detection ...While moving ahead with the object detection technology, especially deep neural networks, many related tasks, such as medical application and industrial automation, have achieved great success. However, the detection of objects with multiple aspect ratios and scales is still a key problem. This paper proposes a top-down and bottom-up feature pyramid network(TDBU-FPN),which combines multi-scale feature representation and anchor generation at multiple aspect ratios. First, in order to build the multi-scale feature map, this paper puts a number of fully convolutional layers after the backbone. Second, to link neighboring feature maps, top-down and bottom-up flows are adopted to introduce context information via top-down flow and supplement suboriginal information via bottom-up flow. The top-down flow refers to the deconvolution procedure, and the bottom-up flow refers to the pooling procedure. Third, the problem of adapting different object aspect ratios is tackled via many anchor shapes with different aspect ratios on each multi-scale feature map. The proposed method is evaluated on the pattern analysis, statistical modeling and computational learning visual object classes(PASCAL VOC)dataset and reaches an accuracy of 79%, which exhibits a 1.8% improvement with a detection speed of 23 fps.展开更多
Multi-scale object detection is a research hotspot,and it has critical applications in many secure systems.Although the object detection algorithms have constantly been progressing recently,how to perform highly accur...Multi-scale object detection is a research hotspot,and it has critical applications in many secure systems.Although the object detection algorithms have constantly been progressing recently,how to perform highly accurate and reliable multi-class object detection is still a challenging task due to the influence of many factors,such as the deformation and occlusion of the object in the actual scene.The more interference factors,the more complicated the semantic information,so we need a deeper network to extract deep information.However,deep neural networks often suffer from network degradation.To prevent the occurrence of degradation on deep neural networks,we put forth a new model using a newly-designed Pre-ReLU,which inserts a ReLU layer before the convolution layer for the sake of preventing network degradation and ensuring the performance of deep networks.This structure can transfer the semantic information more smoothly from the shallow to the deep layer.However,the deep networks will encounter not only degradation,but also a decline in efficiency.Therefore,to speed up the two-stage detector,we divide the feature map into many groups so as to diminish the number of parameters.Correspondingly,calculation speed has been enhanced,achieving a balance between speed and accuracy.Through mathematical demonstration,a Balanced Loss(BL)is proposed by a balance factor to decrease the weight of the negative sample during the training phase to balance the positives and negatives.Finally,our detector demonstrates rosy results in a range of experiments and gains an mAP of 73.38 on PASCAL VOC2007,which approaches the requirement of many security systems.展开更多
With the rapid expansion of drone applications,accurate detection of objects in aerial imagery has become crucial for intelligent transportation,urban management,and emergency rescue missions.However,existing methods ...With the rapid expansion of drone applications,accurate detection of objects in aerial imagery has become crucial for intelligent transportation,urban management,and emergency rescue missions.However,existing methods face numerous challenges in practical deployment,including scale variation handling,feature degradation,and complex backgrounds.To address these issues,we propose Edge-enhanced and Detail-Capturing You Only Look Once(EHDC-YOLO),a novel framework for object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV)imagery.Based on the You Only Look Once version 11 nano(YOLOv11n)baseline,EHDC-YOLO systematically introduces several architectural enhancements:(1)a Multi-Scale Edge Enhancement(MSEE)module that leverages multi-scale pooling and edge information to enhance boundary feature extraction;(2)an Enhanced Feature Pyramid Network(EFPN)that integrates P2-level features with Cross Stage Partial(CSP)structures and OmniKernel convolutions for better fine-grained representation;and(3)Dynamic Head(DyHead)with multi-dimensional attention mechanisms for enhanced cross-scale modeling and perspective adaptability.Comprehensive experiments on the Vision meets Drones for Detection(VisDrone-DET)2019 dataset demonstrate that EHDC-YOLO achieves significant improvements,increasing mean Average Precision(mAP)@0.5 from 33.2%to 46.1%(an absolute improvement of 12.9 percentage points)and mAP@0.5:0.95 from 19.5%to 28.0%(an absolute improvement of 8.5 percentage points)compared with the YOLOv11n baseline,while maintaining a reasonable parameter count(2.81 M vs the baseline’s 2.58 M).Further ablation studies confirm the effectiveness of each proposed component,while visualization results highlight EHDC-YOLO’s superior performance in detecting objects and handling occlusions in complex drone scenarios.展开更多
Deep learning has made significant progress in the field of oriented object detection for remote sensing images.However,existing methods still face challenges when dealing with difficult tasks such as multi-scale targ...Deep learning has made significant progress in the field of oriented object detection for remote sensing images.However,existing methods still face challenges when dealing with difficult tasks such as multi-scale targets,complex backgrounds,and small objects in remote sensing.Maintaining model lightweight to address resource constraints in remote sensing scenarios while improving task completion for remote sensing tasks remains a research hotspot.Therefore,we propose an enhanced multi-scale feature extraction lightweight network EM-YOLO based on the YOLOv8s architecture,specifically optimized for the characteristics of large target scale variations,diverse orientations,and numerous small objects in remote sensing images.Our innovations lie in two main aspects:First,a dynamic snake convolution(DSC)is introduced into the backbone network to enhance the model’s feature extraction capability for oriented targets.Second,an innovative focusing-diffusion module is designed in the feature fusion neck to effectively integrate multi-scale feature information.Finally,we introduce Layer-Adaptive Sparsity for magnitude-based Pruning(LASP)method to perform lightweight network pruning to better complete tasks in resource-constrained scenarios.Experimental results on the lightweight platform Orin demonstrate that the proposed method significantly outperforms the original YOLOv8s model in oriented remote sensing object detection tasks,and achieves comparable or superior performance to state-of-the-art methods on three authoritative remote sensing datasets(DOTA v1.0,DOTA v1.5,and HRSC2016).展开更多
Defect detection in printed circuit boards(PCB)remains challenging due to the difficulty of identifying small-scale defects,the inefficiency of conventional approaches,and the interference from complex backgrounds.To ...Defect detection in printed circuit boards(PCB)remains challenging due to the difficulty of identifying small-scale defects,the inefficiency of conventional approaches,and the interference from complex backgrounds.To address these issues,this paper proposes SIM-Net,an enhanced detection framework derived from YOLOv11.The model integrates SPDConv to preserve fine-grained features for small object detection,introduces a novel convolutional partial attention module(C2PAM)to suppress redundant background information and highlight salient regions,and employs a multi-scale fusion network(MFN)with a multi-grain contextual module(MGCT)to strengthen contextual representation and accelerate inference.Experimental evaluations demonstrate that SIM-Net achieves 92.4%mAP,92%accuracy,and 89.4%recall with an inference speed of 75.1 FPS,outperforming existing state-of-the-art methods.These results confirm the robustness and real-time applicability of SIM-Net for PCB defect inspection.展开更多
Camouflaged Object Detection(COD)aims to identify objects that share highly similar patterns—such as texture,intensity,and color—with their surrounding environment.Due to their intrinsic resemblance to the backgroun...Camouflaged Object Detection(COD)aims to identify objects that share highly similar patterns—such as texture,intensity,and color—with their surrounding environment.Due to their intrinsic resemblance to the background,camouflaged objects often exhibit vague boundaries and varying scales,making it challenging to accurately locate targets and delineate their indistinct edges.To address this,we propose a novel camouflaged object detection network called Edge-Guided and Multi-scale Fusion Network(EGMFNet),which leverages edge-guided multi-scale integration for enhanced performance.The model incorporates two innovative components:a Multi-scale Fusion Module(MSFM)and an Edge-Guided Attention Module(EGA).These designs exploit multi-scale features to uncover subtle cues between candidate objects and the background while emphasizing camouflaged object boundaries.Moreover,recognizing the rich contextual information in fused features,we introduce a Dual-Branch Global Context Module(DGCM)to refine features using extensive global context,thereby generatingmore informative representations.Experimental results on four benchmark datasets demonstrate that EGMFNet outperforms state-of-the-art methods across five evaluation metrics.Specifically,on COD10K,our EGMFNet-P improves F_(β)by 4.8 points and reduces mean absolute error(MAE)by 0.006 compared with ZoomNeXt;on NC4K,it achieves a 3.6-point increase in F_(β).OnCAMO and CHAMELEON,it obtains 4.5-point increases in F_(β),respectively.These consistent gains substantiate the superiority and robustness of EGMFNet.展开更多
Driven by rapid advances in deep learning,object detection has been widely adopted across diverse application scenarios.However,in low-light conditions,critical visual cues of target objects are severely degraded,posi...Driven by rapid advances in deep learning,object detection has been widely adopted across diverse application scenarios.However,in low-light conditions,critical visual cues of target objects are severely degraded,posing a significant challenge for accurate low-light object detection.Existing methods struggle to preserve discriminative features while maintaining semantic consistency between low-light and normal-light images.For this purpose,this study proposes a DL-YOLO model specially tailored for low-light detection.To mitigate target feature attenuation introduced by repeated downsampling,we design aMulti-Scale FeatureConvolution(MSF-Conv)module that captures rich,multi-level details via multi-scale feature learning,thereby reducing model complexity and computational cost.For feature fusion,we integrated the C3k2-DWRmodule by embedding the Dilation-wise Residual(DWR)mechanism into the 2-core optimized Cross Stage Partial(C3)framework,achieving efficient feature integration.In addition,we replace conventional localization losses with WIoU(Weighted Intersection over Union),which dynamically adjusts gradient gain according to sample quality,thereby improving localization robustness and precision.Experiments on the ExDark dataset demonstrate that DL-YOLO delivers strong low-light detection performance.The relevant code is published at https://github.com/cym0997/DL-YOLO.展开更多
To address critical challenges in nighttime ship detection—high small-target missed detection(over 20%),insufficient lightweighting,and limited generalization due to scarce,low-quality datasets—this study proposes a...To address critical challenges in nighttime ship detection—high small-target missed detection(over 20%),insufficient lightweighting,and limited generalization due to scarce,low-quality datasets—this study proposes a systematic solution.First,a high-quality Night-Ships dataset is constructed via CycleGAN-based day-night transfer,combined with a dual-threshold cleaning strategy(Laplacian variance sharpness filtering and brightness-color deviation screening).Second,a Cross-stage Lightweight Fusion-You Only Look Once version 8(CLF-YOLOv8)is proposed with key improvements:the Neck network is reconstructed by replacing Cross Stage Partial(CSP)structure with the Cross Stage Partial Multi-Scale Convolutional Block(CSP-MSCB)and integrating Bidirectional Feature Pyramid Network(BiFPN)for weighted multi-scale fusion to enhance small-target detection;a Lightweight Shared Convolutional and Separated Batch Normalization Detection-Head(LSCSBD-Head)with shared convolutions and layer-wise Batch Normalization(BN)reduces parameters to 1.8M(42% fewer than YOLOv8n);and the FocalMinimum Point Distance Intersection over Union(Focal-MPDIoU)loss combines Minimum Point Distance Intersection over Union(MPDIoU)geometric constraints and Focal weighting to optimize low-overlap targets.Experiments show CLFYOLOv8 achieves 97.6%mAP@0.5(0.7% higher than YOLOv8n)with 1.8 M parameters,outperforming mainstream models in small-target detection,overlapping target discrimination,and adaptability to complex lighting.展开更多
Accurate and efficient detection of building changes in remote sensing imagery is crucial for urban planning,disaster emergency response,and resource management.However,existing methods face challenges such as spectra...Accurate and efficient detection of building changes in remote sensing imagery is crucial for urban planning,disaster emergency response,and resource management.However,existing methods face challenges such as spectral similarity between buildings and backgrounds,sensor variations,and insufficient computational efficiency.To address these challenges,this paper proposes a novel Multi-scale Efficient Wavelet-based Change Detection Network(MewCDNet),which integrates the advantages of Convolutional Neural Networks and Transformers,balances computational costs,and achieves high-performance building change detection.The network employs EfficientNet-B4 as the backbone for hierarchical feature extraction,integrates multi-level feature maps through a multi-scale fusion strategy,and incorporates two key modules:Cross-temporal Difference Detection(CTDD)and Cross-scale Wavelet Refinement(CSWR).CTDD adopts a dual-branch architecture that combines pixel-wise differencing with semanticaware Euclidean distance weighting to enhance the distinction between true changes and background noise.CSWR integrates Haar-based Discrete Wavelet Transform with multi-head cross-attention mechanisms,enabling cross-scale feature fusion while significantly improving edge localization and suppressing spurious changes.Extensive experiments on four benchmark datasets demonstrate MewCDNet’s superiority over comparison methods:achieving F1 scores of 91.54%on LEVIR,93.70%on WHUCD,and 64.96%on S2Looking for building change detection.Furthermore,MewCDNet exhibits optimal performance on the multi-class⋅SYSU dataset(F1:82.71%),highlighting its exceptional generalization capability.展开更多
The continuous decrease in global fishery resources has increased the importance of precise and efficient underwater fish monitoring technology.First,this study proposes an improved underwater target detection framewo...The continuous decrease in global fishery resources has increased the importance of precise and efficient underwater fish monitoring technology.First,this study proposes an improved underwater target detection framework based on YOLOv8,with the aim of enhancing detection accuracy and the ability to recognize multi-scale targets in blurry and complex underwater environments.A streamlined Vision Transformer(ViT)model is used as the feature extraction backbone,which retains global self-attention feature extraction and accelerates training efficiency.In addition,a detection head named Dynamic Head(DyHead)is introduced,which enhances the efficiency of processing various target sizes through multi-scale feature fusion and adaptive attention modules.Furthermore,a dynamic loss function adjustment method called SlideLoss is employed.This method utilizes sliding window technology to adaptively adjust parameters,which optimizes the detection of challenging targets.The experimental results on the RUOD dataset show that the proposed improved model not only significantly enhances the accuracy of target detection but also increases the efficiency of target detection.展开更多
Tomato is a major economic crop worldwide,and diseases on tomato leaves can significantly reduce both yield and quality.Traditional manual inspection is inefficient and highly subjective,making it difficult to meet th...Tomato is a major economic crop worldwide,and diseases on tomato leaves can significantly reduce both yield and quality.Traditional manual inspection is inefficient and highly subjective,making it difficult to meet the requirements of early disease identification in complex natural environments.To address this issue,this study proposes an improved YOLO11-based model,YOLO-SPDNet(Scale Sequence Fusion,Position-Channel Attention,and Dual Enhancement Network).The model integrates the SEAM(Self-Ensembling Attention Mechanism)semantic enhancement module,the MLCA(Mixed Local Channel Attention)lightweight attention mechanism,and the SPA(Scale-Position-Detail Awareness)module composed of SSFF(Scale Sequence Feature Fusion),TFE(Triple Feature Encoding),and CPAM(Channel and Position Attention Mechanism).These enhancements strengthen fine-grained lesion detection while maintaining model lightweightness.Experimental results show that YOLO-SPDNet achieves an accuracy of 91.8%,a recall of 86.5%,and an mAP@0.5 of 90.6%on the test set,with a computational complexity of 12.5 GFLOPs.Furthermore,the model reaches a real-time inference speed of 987 FPS,making it suitable for deployment on mobile agricultural terminals and online monitoring systems.Comparative analysis and ablation studies further validate the reliability and practical applicability of the proposed model in complex natural scenes.展开更多
Distributed Denial of Service(DDoS)attacks are one of the severe threats to network infrastructure,sometimes bypassing traditional diagnosis algorithms because of their evolving complexity.PresentMachine Learning(ML)t...Distributed Denial of Service(DDoS)attacks are one of the severe threats to network infrastructure,sometimes bypassing traditional diagnosis algorithms because of their evolving complexity.PresentMachine Learning(ML)techniques for DDoS attack diagnosis normally apply network traffic statistical features such as packet sizes and inter-arrival times.However,such techniques sometimes fail to capture complicated relations among various traffic flows.In this paper,we present a new multi-scale ensemble strategy given the Graph Neural Networks(GNNs)for improving DDoS detection.Our technique divides traffic into macro-and micro-level elements,letting various GNN models to get the two corase-scale anomalies and subtle,stealthy attack models.Through modeling network traffic as graph-structured data,GNNs efficiently learn intricate relations among network entities.The proposed ensemble learning algorithm combines the results of several GNNs to improve generalization,robustness,and scalability.Extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets—UNSW-NB15,CICIDS2017,and CICDDoS2019—show that our approach outperforms traditional machine learning and deep learning models in detecting both high-rate and low-rate(stealthy)DDoS attacks,with significant improvements in accuracy and recall.These findings demonstrate the suggested method’s applicability and robustness for real-world implementation in contexts where several DDoS patterns coexist.展开更多
Impact craters are important for understanding the evolution of lunar geologic and surface erosion rates,among other functions.However,the morphological characteristics of these micro impact craters are not obvious an...Impact craters are important for understanding the evolution of lunar geologic and surface erosion rates,among other functions.However,the morphological characteristics of these micro impact craters are not obvious and they are numerous,resulting in low detection accuracy by deep learning models.Therefore,we proposed a new multi-scale fusion crater detection algorithm(MSF-CDA)based on the YOLO11 to improve the accuracy of lunar impact crater detection,especially for small craters with a diameter of<1 km.Using the images taken by the LROC(Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera)at the Chang’e-4(CE-4)landing area,we constructed three separate datasets for craters with diameters of 0-70 m,70-140 m,and>140 m.We then trained three submodels separately with these three datasets.Additionally,we designed a slicing-amplifying-slicing strategy to enhance the ability to extract features from small craters.To handle redundant predictions,we proposed a new Non-Maximum Suppression with Area Filtering method to fuse the results in overlapping targets within the multi-scale submodels.Finally,our new MSF-CDA method achieved high detection performance,with the Precision,Recall,and F1 score having values of 0.991,0.987,and 0.989,respectively,perfectly addressing the problems induced by the lesser features and sample imbalance of small craters.Our MSF-CDA can provide strong data support for more in-depth study of the geological evolution of the lunar surface and finer geological age estimations.This strategy can also be used to detect other small objects with lesser features and sample imbalance problems.We detected approximately 500,000 impact craters in an area of approximately 214 km2 around the CE-4 landing area.By statistically analyzing the new data,we updated the distribution function of the number and diameter of impact craters.Finally,we identified the most suitable lighting conditions for detecting impact crater targets by analyzing the effect of different lighting conditions on the detection accuracy.展开更多
Computer vision-based traffic object detection plays a critical role in road traffic safety.Under hazy weather conditions,images captured by road monitoring systems exhibit three main challenges:significant scale vari...Computer vision-based traffic object detection plays a critical role in road traffic safety.Under hazy weather conditions,images captured by road monitoring systems exhibit three main challenges:significant scale variations,abundant background noise,and diverse perspectives.These factors lead to insufficient detection accuracy and limited real-time performance in object detection algorithms.We propose AMC-YOLO an improved YOLOv11-based traffic detection algorithm to address these challenges.In this work,we replace the C3k block's bottleneck module with our novel attention-gate convolution(AGConv),which improves contextual information capture,enhances feature extraction,and reduces computational redundancy.Additionally,we introduce the multi-dilation sharing convolution(MDSC)module to prevent feature information loss during pooling operations,enhancing the model's sensitivity to multi-scale features.We design a lightweight and efficient cross-channel feature fusion module(CCFM)for the path aggregation neck to adaptively adjust feature weights and optimize the model's overall performance.Experimental results demonstrate that AMC-YOLO achieves a 1.1%improvement in mAP@0.5 and a 2.7%increase in mAP@0.5:0.95 compared to YOLOv11n.On graphics processing unit(GPU)hardware,it achieves real-time performance at 376(FPS)with only 2.6 million parameters,ensuring high-precision traffic detection while meeting deployment requirements on resource-constrained devices.展开更多
Visible and infrared(RGB-IR)fusion object detection plays an important role in security,disaster relief,etc.In recent years,deep-learning-based RGB-IR fusion detection methods have been developing rapidly,but still st...Visible and infrared(RGB-IR)fusion object detection plays an important role in security,disaster relief,etc.In recent years,deep-learning-based RGB-IR fusion detection methods have been developing rapidly,but still struggle to deal with the complex and changing scenarios captured by drones,mainly due to two reasons:(A)RGB-IR fusion detectors are susceptible to inferior inputs that degrade performance and stability.(B)RGB-IR fusion detectors are susceptible to redundant features that reduce accuracy and efficiency.In this paper,an innovative RGB-IR fusion detection framework based on global-local feature optimization,named GLFDet,is proposed to improve the detection performance and efficiency of drone-captured objects.The key components of GLFDet include a Global Feature Optimization(GFO)module,a Local Feature Optimization(LFO)module and a Channel Separation Fusion(CSF)module.Specifically,GFO calculates the information content of the input image from the frequency domain and optimizes the features holistically.Then,LFO dynamically selects high-value features and filters out low-value features before fusion,which significantly improves the efficiency of fusion.Finally,CSF fuses the RGB and IR features across the corresponding channels,which avoids the rearrangement of the channel relationships and enhances the model stability.Extensive experimental results show that the proposed method achieves the best performance on three popular RGB-IR datasets Drone Vehicle,VEDAI,and LLVIP.In addition,GLFDet is more lightweight than other comparable models,making it more appealing to edge devices such as drones.The code is available at https://github.com/lao chen330/GLFDet.展开更多
Small object detection has been a focus of attention since the emergence of deep learning-based object detection.Although classical object detection frameworks have made significant contributions to the development of...Small object detection has been a focus of attention since the emergence of deep learning-based object detection.Although classical object detection frameworks have made significant contributions to the development of object detection,there are still many issues to be resolved in detecting small objects due to the inherent complexity and diversity of real-world visual scenes.In particular,the YOLO(You Only Look Once)series of detection models,renowned for their real-time performance,have undergone numerous adaptations aimed at improving the detection of small targets.In this survey,we summarize the state-of-the-art YOLO-based small object detection methods.This review presents a systematic categorization of YOLO-based approaches for small-object detection,organized into four methodological avenues,namely attention-based feature enhancement,detection-head optimization,loss function,and multi-scale feature fusion strategies.We then examine the principal challenges addressed by each category.Finally,we analyze the performance of thesemethods on public benchmarks and,by comparing current approaches,identify limitations and outline directions for future research.展开更多
The fasteners employed in the railway tracks are susceptible to defects arising from their intricate composition.Foreign objects are frequently observed on the track bed in an open environment.These two types of defec...The fasteners employed in the railway tracks are susceptible to defects arising from their intricate composition.Foreign objects are frequently observed on the track bed in an open environment.These two types of defects pose potential threats to high-speed trains,thus necessitating timely and accurate track inspection.The majority of extant automatic inspection methods are predicated on the utilization of single visible light data,and the efficacy of the algorithmic processes is influenced by complex environments.Furthermore,due to the single information dimension,the detection accuracy of defects in similar,occluded,and small object categories is low.To address the aforementioned issues,this paper proposes a track defect detectionmethod based on dynamicmulti-modal fusion and challenging object enhanced perception.First,in light of the variances in the representation dimensions ofmultimodal information,this paper proposes a dynamic weighted multi-modal feature fusion module.The fused multi-modal features are assigned weights,and thenmultiplied with the extracted single-modal features atmultiple levels,achieving adaptive adjustment of the response degree of fusion features.Second,a novel stepwise multi-scale convolution feature aggregation module is proposed for challenging objects.The proposed method employs depth separable convolution and cross-scale aggregation operations of different receptive fields to enhance feature extraction and reuse,thereby reducing the degree of progressive loss of effective information.The experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method in comparison to eight established methods,encompassing both single-modal and multi-modal methods,as evidenced by the extensive findings within the constructed RGBD dataset.展开更多
Recognising human-object interactions(HOI)is a challenging task for traditional machine learning models,including convolutional neural networks(CNNs).Existing models show limited transferability across complex dataset...Recognising human-object interactions(HOI)is a challenging task for traditional machine learning models,including convolutional neural networks(CNNs).Existing models show limited transferability across complex datasets such as D3D-HOI and SYSU 3D HOI.The conventional architecture of CNNs restricts their ability to handle HOI scenarios with high complexity.HOI recognition requires improved feature extraction methods to overcome the current limitations in accuracy and scalability.This work proposes a Novel quantum gate-enabled hybrid CNN(QEH-CNN)for effectiveHOI recognition.Themodel enhancesCNNperformance by integrating quantumcomputing components.The framework begins with bilateral image filtering,followed bymulti-object tracking(MOT)and Felzenszwalb superpixel segmentation.A watershed algorithm refines object boundaries by cleaning merged superpixels.Feature extraction combines a histogram of oriented gradients(HOG),Global Image Statistics for Texture(GIST)descriptors,and a novel 23-joint keypoint extractionmethod using relative joint angles and joint proximitymeasures.A fuzzy optimization process refines the extracted features before feeding them into the QEH-CNNmodel.The proposed model achieves 95.06%accuracy on the 3D-D3D-HOI dataset and 97.29%on the SYSU3DHOI dataset.Theintegration of quantum computing enhances feature optimization,leading to improved accuracy and overall model efficiency.展开更多
基金funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.62371187the Open Program of Hunan Intelligent Rehabilitation Robot and Auxiliary Equipment Engineering Technology Research Center under Grant No.2024JS101.
文摘The ubiquity of mobile devices has driven advancements in mobile object detection.However,challenges in multi-scale object detection in open,complex environments persist due to limited computational resources.Traditional approaches like network compression,quantization,and lightweight design often sacrifice accuracy or feature representation robustness.This article introduces the Fast Multi-scale Channel Shuffling Network(FMCSNet),a novel lightweight detection model optimized for mobile devices.FMCSNet integrates a fully convolutional Multilayer Perceptron(MLP)module,offering global perception without significantly increasing parameters,effectively bridging the gap between CNNs and Vision Transformers.FMCSNet achieves a delicate balance between computation and accuracy mainly by two key modules:the ShiftMLP module,including a shift operation and an MLP module,and a Partial group Convolutional(PGConv)module,reducing computation while enhancing information exchange between channels.With a computational complexity of 1.4G FLOPs and 1.3M parameters,FMCSNet outperforms CNN-based and DWConv-based ShuffleNetv2 by 1%and 4.5%mAP on the Pascal VOC 2007 dataset,respectively.Additionally,FMCSNet achieves a mAP of 30.0(0.5:0.95 IoU threshold)with only 2.5G FLOPs and 2.0M parameters.It achieves 32 FPS on low-performance i5-series CPUs,meeting real-time detection requirements.The versatility of the PGConv module’s adaptability across scenarios further highlights FMCSNet as a promising solution for real-time mobile object detection.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.62101275 and 62101274).
文摘In foggy traffic scenarios, existing object detection algorithms face challenges such as low detection accuracy, poor robustness, occlusion, missed detections, and false detections. To address this issue, a multi-scale object detection algorithm based on an improved YOLOv8 has been proposed. Firstly, a lightweight attention mechanism, Triplet Attention, is introduced to enhance the algorithm’s ability to extract multi-dimensional and multi-scale features, thereby improving the receptive capability of the feature maps. Secondly, the Diverse Branch Block (DBB) is integrated into the CSP Bottleneck with two Convolutions (C2F) module to strengthen the fusion of semantic information across different layers. Thirdly, a new decoupled detection head is proposed by redesigning the original network head based on the Diverse Branch Block module to improve detection accuracy and reduce missed and false detections. Finally, the Minimum Point Distance based Intersection-over-Union (MPDIoU) is used to replace the original YOLOv8 Complete Intersection-over-Union (CIoU) to accelerate the network’s training convergence. Comparative experiments and dehazing pre-processing tests were conducted on the RTTS and VOC-Fog datasets. Compared to the baseline YOLOv8 model, the improved algorithm achieved mean Average Precision (mAP) improvements of 4.6% and 3.8%, respectively. After defogging pre-processing, the mAP increased by 5.3% and 4.4%, respectively. The experimental results demonstrate that the improved algorithm exhibits high practicality and effectiveness in foggy traffic scenarios.
基金supported by the Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities(111 Plan)of China(B14010)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31727901)
文摘While moving ahead with the object detection technology, especially deep neural networks, many related tasks, such as medical application and industrial automation, have achieved great success. However, the detection of objects with multiple aspect ratios and scales is still a key problem. This paper proposes a top-down and bottom-up feature pyramid network(TDBU-FPN),which combines multi-scale feature representation and anchor generation at multiple aspect ratios. First, in order to build the multi-scale feature map, this paper puts a number of fully convolutional layers after the backbone. Second, to link neighboring feature maps, top-down and bottom-up flows are adopted to introduce context information via top-down flow and supplement suboriginal information via bottom-up flow. The top-down flow refers to the deconvolution procedure, and the bottom-up flow refers to the pooling procedure. Third, the problem of adapting different object aspect ratios is tackled via many anchor shapes with different aspect ratios on each multi-scale feature map. The proposed method is evaluated on the pattern analysis, statistical modeling and computational learning visual object classes(PASCAL VOC)dataset and reaches an accuracy of 79%, which exhibits a 1.8% improvement with a detection speed of 23 fps.
基金supported by the Science and Technology Project of Sichuan(Nos.2019YFG0504,2021YFG0314,2020YFG0459)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61872066 and U19A2078).
文摘Multi-scale object detection is a research hotspot,and it has critical applications in many secure systems.Although the object detection algorithms have constantly been progressing recently,how to perform highly accurate and reliable multi-class object detection is still a challenging task due to the influence of many factors,such as the deformation and occlusion of the object in the actual scene.The more interference factors,the more complicated the semantic information,so we need a deeper network to extract deep information.However,deep neural networks often suffer from network degradation.To prevent the occurrence of degradation on deep neural networks,we put forth a new model using a newly-designed Pre-ReLU,which inserts a ReLU layer before the convolution layer for the sake of preventing network degradation and ensuring the performance of deep networks.This structure can transfer the semantic information more smoothly from the shallow to the deep layer.However,the deep networks will encounter not only degradation,but also a decline in efficiency.Therefore,to speed up the two-stage detector,we divide the feature map into many groups so as to diminish the number of parameters.Correspondingly,calculation speed has been enhanced,achieving a balance between speed and accuracy.Through mathematical demonstration,a Balanced Loss(BL)is proposed by a balance factor to decrease the weight of the negative sample during the training phase to balance the positives and negatives.Finally,our detector demonstrates rosy results in a range of experiments and gains an mAP of 73.38 on PASCAL VOC2007,which approaches the requirement of many security systems.
文摘With the rapid expansion of drone applications,accurate detection of objects in aerial imagery has become crucial for intelligent transportation,urban management,and emergency rescue missions.However,existing methods face numerous challenges in practical deployment,including scale variation handling,feature degradation,and complex backgrounds.To address these issues,we propose Edge-enhanced and Detail-Capturing You Only Look Once(EHDC-YOLO),a novel framework for object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV)imagery.Based on the You Only Look Once version 11 nano(YOLOv11n)baseline,EHDC-YOLO systematically introduces several architectural enhancements:(1)a Multi-Scale Edge Enhancement(MSEE)module that leverages multi-scale pooling and edge information to enhance boundary feature extraction;(2)an Enhanced Feature Pyramid Network(EFPN)that integrates P2-level features with Cross Stage Partial(CSP)structures and OmniKernel convolutions for better fine-grained representation;and(3)Dynamic Head(DyHead)with multi-dimensional attention mechanisms for enhanced cross-scale modeling and perspective adaptability.Comprehensive experiments on the Vision meets Drones for Detection(VisDrone-DET)2019 dataset demonstrate that EHDC-YOLO achieves significant improvements,increasing mean Average Precision(mAP)@0.5 from 33.2%to 46.1%(an absolute improvement of 12.9 percentage points)and mAP@0.5:0.95 from 19.5%to 28.0%(an absolute improvement of 8.5 percentage points)compared with the YOLOv11n baseline,while maintaining a reasonable parameter count(2.81 M vs the baseline’s 2.58 M).Further ablation studies confirm the effectiveness of each proposed component,while visualization results highlight EHDC-YOLO’s superior performance in detecting objects and handling occlusions in complex drone scenarios.
基金funded by the Hainan Province Science and Technology Special Fund under Grant ZDYF2024GXJS292.
文摘Deep learning has made significant progress in the field of oriented object detection for remote sensing images.However,existing methods still face challenges when dealing with difficult tasks such as multi-scale targets,complex backgrounds,and small objects in remote sensing.Maintaining model lightweight to address resource constraints in remote sensing scenarios while improving task completion for remote sensing tasks remains a research hotspot.Therefore,we propose an enhanced multi-scale feature extraction lightweight network EM-YOLO based on the YOLOv8s architecture,specifically optimized for the characteristics of large target scale variations,diverse orientations,and numerous small objects in remote sensing images.Our innovations lie in two main aspects:First,a dynamic snake convolution(DSC)is introduced into the backbone network to enhance the model’s feature extraction capability for oriented targets.Second,an innovative focusing-diffusion module is designed in the feature fusion neck to effectively integrate multi-scale feature information.Finally,we introduce Layer-Adaptive Sparsity for magnitude-based Pruning(LASP)method to perform lightweight network pruning to better complete tasks in resource-constrained scenarios.Experimental results on the lightweight platform Orin demonstrate that the proposed method significantly outperforms the original YOLOv8s model in oriented remote sensing object detection tasks,and achieves comparable or superior performance to state-of-the-art methods on three authoritative remote sensing datasets(DOTA v1.0,DOTA v1.5,and HRSC2016).
文摘Defect detection in printed circuit boards(PCB)remains challenging due to the difficulty of identifying small-scale defects,the inefficiency of conventional approaches,and the interference from complex backgrounds.To address these issues,this paper proposes SIM-Net,an enhanced detection framework derived from YOLOv11.The model integrates SPDConv to preserve fine-grained features for small object detection,introduces a novel convolutional partial attention module(C2PAM)to suppress redundant background information and highlight salient regions,and employs a multi-scale fusion network(MFN)with a multi-grain contextual module(MGCT)to strengthen contextual representation and accelerate inference.Experimental evaluations demonstrate that SIM-Net achieves 92.4%mAP,92%accuracy,and 89.4%recall with an inference speed of 75.1 FPS,outperforming existing state-of-the-art methods.These results confirm the robustness and real-time applicability of SIM-Net for PCB defect inspection.
基金financially supported byChongqingUniversity of Technology Graduate Innovation Foundation(Grant No.gzlcx20253267).
文摘Camouflaged Object Detection(COD)aims to identify objects that share highly similar patterns—such as texture,intensity,and color—with their surrounding environment.Due to their intrinsic resemblance to the background,camouflaged objects often exhibit vague boundaries and varying scales,making it challenging to accurately locate targets and delineate their indistinct edges.To address this,we propose a novel camouflaged object detection network called Edge-Guided and Multi-scale Fusion Network(EGMFNet),which leverages edge-guided multi-scale integration for enhanced performance.The model incorporates two innovative components:a Multi-scale Fusion Module(MSFM)and an Edge-Guided Attention Module(EGA).These designs exploit multi-scale features to uncover subtle cues between candidate objects and the background while emphasizing camouflaged object boundaries.Moreover,recognizing the rich contextual information in fused features,we introduce a Dual-Branch Global Context Module(DGCM)to refine features using extensive global context,thereby generatingmore informative representations.Experimental results on four benchmark datasets demonstrate that EGMFNet outperforms state-of-the-art methods across five evaluation metrics.Specifically,on COD10K,our EGMFNet-P improves F_(β)by 4.8 points and reduces mean absolute error(MAE)by 0.006 compared with ZoomNeXt;on NC4K,it achieves a 3.6-point increase in F_(β).OnCAMO and CHAMELEON,it obtains 4.5-point increases in F_(β),respectively.These consistent gains substantiate the superiority and robustness of EGMFNet.
文摘Driven by rapid advances in deep learning,object detection has been widely adopted across diverse application scenarios.However,in low-light conditions,critical visual cues of target objects are severely degraded,posing a significant challenge for accurate low-light object detection.Existing methods struggle to preserve discriminative features while maintaining semantic consistency between low-light and normal-light images.For this purpose,this study proposes a DL-YOLO model specially tailored for low-light detection.To mitigate target feature attenuation introduced by repeated downsampling,we design aMulti-Scale FeatureConvolution(MSF-Conv)module that captures rich,multi-level details via multi-scale feature learning,thereby reducing model complexity and computational cost.For feature fusion,we integrated the C3k2-DWRmodule by embedding the Dilation-wise Residual(DWR)mechanism into the 2-core optimized Cross Stage Partial(C3)framework,achieving efficient feature integration.In addition,we replace conventional localization losses with WIoU(Weighted Intersection over Union),which dynamically adjusts gradient gain according to sample quality,thereby improving localization robustness and precision.Experiments on the ExDark dataset demonstrate that DL-YOLO delivers strong low-light detection performance.The relevant code is published at https://github.com/cym0997/DL-YOLO.
基金the Shandong Provincial Key Research and Development Program(Grant No.2024SFGC0201).
文摘To address critical challenges in nighttime ship detection—high small-target missed detection(over 20%),insufficient lightweighting,and limited generalization due to scarce,low-quality datasets—this study proposes a systematic solution.First,a high-quality Night-Ships dataset is constructed via CycleGAN-based day-night transfer,combined with a dual-threshold cleaning strategy(Laplacian variance sharpness filtering and brightness-color deviation screening).Second,a Cross-stage Lightweight Fusion-You Only Look Once version 8(CLF-YOLOv8)is proposed with key improvements:the Neck network is reconstructed by replacing Cross Stage Partial(CSP)structure with the Cross Stage Partial Multi-Scale Convolutional Block(CSP-MSCB)and integrating Bidirectional Feature Pyramid Network(BiFPN)for weighted multi-scale fusion to enhance small-target detection;a Lightweight Shared Convolutional and Separated Batch Normalization Detection-Head(LSCSBD-Head)with shared convolutions and layer-wise Batch Normalization(BN)reduces parameters to 1.8M(42% fewer than YOLOv8n);and the FocalMinimum Point Distance Intersection over Union(Focal-MPDIoU)loss combines Minimum Point Distance Intersection over Union(MPDIoU)geometric constraints and Focal weighting to optimize low-overlap targets.Experiments show CLFYOLOv8 achieves 97.6%mAP@0.5(0.7% higher than YOLOv8n)with 1.8 M parameters,outperforming mainstream models in small-target detection,overlapping target discrimination,and adaptability to complex lighting.
基金supported by the Henan Province Key R&D Project under Grant 241111210400the Henan Provincial Science and Technology Research Project under Grants 252102211047,252102211062,252102211055 and 232102210069+2 种基金the Jiangsu Provincial Scheme Double Initiative Plan JSS-CBS20230474,the XJTLU RDF-21-02-008the Science and Technology Innovation Project of Zhengzhou University of Light Industry under Grant 23XNKJTD0205the Higher Education Teaching Reform Research and Practice Project of Henan Province under Grant 2024SJGLX0126。
文摘Accurate and efficient detection of building changes in remote sensing imagery is crucial for urban planning,disaster emergency response,and resource management.However,existing methods face challenges such as spectral similarity between buildings and backgrounds,sensor variations,and insufficient computational efficiency.To address these challenges,this paper proposes a novel Multi-scale Efficient Wavelet-based Change Detection Network(MewCDNet),which integrates the advantages of Convolutional Neural Networks and Transformers,balances computational costs,and achieves high-performance building change detection.The network employs EfficientNet-B4 as the backbone for hierarchical feature extraction,integrates multi-level feature maps through a multi-scale fusion strategy,and incorporates two key modules:Cross-temporal Difference Detection(CTDD)and Cross-scale Wavelet Refinement(CSWR).CTDD adopts a dual-branch architecture that combines pixel-wise differencing with semanticaware Euclidean distance weighting to enhance the distinction between true changes and background noise.CSWR integrates Haar-based Discrete Wavelet Transform with multi-head cross-attention mechanisms,enabling cross-scale feature fusion while significantly improving edge localization and suppressing spurious changes.Extensive experiments on four benchmark datasets demonstrate MewCDNet’s superiority over comparison methods:achieving F1 scores of 91.54%on LEVIR,93.70%on WHUCD,and 64.96%on S2Looking for building change detection.Furthermore,MewCDNet exhibits optimal performance on the multi-class⋅SYSU dataset(F1:82.71%),highlighting its exceptional generalization capability.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.52106080)the Jilin City Science and Technology Innovation Development Plan Project(No.20240302014)+2 种基金the Jilin Provincial Department of Education Science and Technology Research Project(No.JJKH20230135K)the Jilin Province Science and Technology Development Plan Project(No.YDZJ202401640ZYTS)the Northeast Electric Power University Teaching Reform Research Project(No.J2427)。
文摘The continuous decrease in global fishery resources has increased the importance of precise and efficient underwater fish monitoring technology.First,this study proposes an improved underwater target detection framework based on YOLOv8,with the aim of enhancing detection accuracy and the ability to recognize multi-scale targets in blurry and complex underwater environments.A streamlined Vision Transformer(ViT)model is used as the feature extraction backbone,which retains global self-attention feature extraction and accelerates training efficiency.In addition,a detection head named Dynamic Head(DyHead)is introduced,which enhances the efficiency of processing various target sizes through multi-scale feature fusion and adaptive attention modules.Furthermore,a dynamic loss function adjustment method called SlideLoss is employed.This method utilizes sliding window technology to adaptively adjust parameters,which optimizes the detection of challenging targets.The experimental results on the RUOD dataset show that the proposed improved model not only significantly enhances the accuracy of target detection but also increases the efficiency of target detection.
基金Tianmin Tianyuan Boutique Vegetable Industry Technology Service Station(Grant No.2024120011003081)Development of Environmental Monitoring and Traceability System for Wuqing Agricultural Production Areas(Grant No.2024120011001866)。
文摘Tomato is a major economic crop worldwide,and diseases on tomato leaves can significantly reduce both yield and quality.Traditional manual inspection is inefficient and highly subjective,making it difficult to meet the requirements of early disease identification in complex natural environments.To address this issue,this study proposes an improved YOLO11-based model,YOLO-SPDNet(Scale Sequence Fusion,Position-Channel Attention,and Dual Enhancement Network).The model integrates the SEAM(Self-Ensembling Attention Mechanism)semantic enhancement module,the MLCA(Mixed Local Channel Attention)lightweight attention mechanism,and the SPA(Scale-Position-Detail Awareness)module composed of SSFF(Scale Sequence Feature Fusion),TFE(Triple Feature Encoding),and CPAM(Channel and Position Attention Mechanism).These enhancements strengthen fine-grained lesion detection while maintaining model lightweightness.Experimental results show that YOLO-SPDNet achieves an accuracy of 91.8%,a recall of 86.5%,and an mAP@0.5 of 90.6%on the test set,with a computational complexity of 12.5 GFLOPs.Furthermore,the model reaches a real-time inference speed of 987 FPS,making it suitable for deployment on mobile agricultural terminals and online monitoring systems.Comparative analysis and ablation studies further validate the reliability and practical applicability of the proposed model in complex natural scenes.
文摘Distributed Denial of Service(DDoS)attacks are one of the severe threats to network infrastructure,sometimes bypassing traditional diagnosis algorithms because of their evolving complexity.PresentMachine Learning(ML)techniques for DDoS attack diagnosis normally apply network traffic statistical features such as packet sizes and inter-arrival times.However,such techniques sometimes fail to capture complicated relations among various traffic flows.In this paper,we present a new multi-scale ensemble strategy given the Graph Neural Networks(GNNs)for improving DDoS detection.Our technique divides traffic into macro-and micro-level elements,letting various GNN models to get the two corase-scale anomalies and subtle,stealthy attack models.Through modeling network traffic as graph-structured data,GNNs efficiently learn intricate relations among network entities.The proposed ensemble learning algorithm combines the results of several GNNs to improve generalization,robustness,and scalability.Extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets—UNSW-NB15,CICIDS2017,and CICDDoS2019—show that our approach outperforms traditional machine learning and deep learning models in detecting both high-rate and low-rate(stealthy)DDoS attacks,with significant improvements in accuracy and recall.These findings demonstrate the suggested method’s applicability and robustness for real-world implementation in contexts where several DDoS patterns coexist.
基金the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No.2022YFF0711400)the National Space Science Data Center Youth Open Project (Grant No. NSSDC2302001)
文摘Impact craters are important for understanding the evolution of lunar geologic and surface erosion rates,among other functions.However,the morphological characteristics of these micro impact craters are not obvious and they are numerous,resulting in low detection accuracy by deep learning models.Therefore,we proposed a new multi-scale fusion crater detection algorithm(MSF-CDA)based on the YOLO11 to improve the accuracy of lunar impact crater detection,especially for small craters with a diameter of<1 km.Using the images taken by the LROC(Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera)at the Chang’e-4(CE-4)landing area,we constructed three separate datasets for craters with diameters of 0-70 m,70-140 m,and>140 m.We then trained three submodels separately with these three datasets.Additionally,we designed a slicing-amplifying-slicing strategy to enhance the ability to extract features from small craters.To handle redundant predictions,we proposed a new Non-Maximum Suppression with Area Filtering method to fuse the results in overlapping targets within the multi-scale submodels.Finally,our new MSF-CDA method achieved high detection performance,with the Precision,Recall,and F1 score having values of 0.991,0.987,and 0.989,respectively,perfectly addressing the problems induced by the lesser features and sample imbalance of small craters.Our MSF-CDA can provide strong data support for more in-depth study of the geological evolution of the lunar surface and finer geological age estimations.This strategy can also be used to detect other small objects with lesser features and sample imbalance problems.We detected approximately 500,000 impact craters in an area of approximately 214 km2 around the CE-4 landing area.By statistically analyzing the new data,we updated the distribution function of the number and diameter of impact craters.Finally,we identified the most suitable lighting conditions for detecting impact crater targets by analyzing the effect of different lighting conditions on the detection accuracy.
基金supported by the Wuhan Pilot construction of a strong Transportation Country Science and Technology Joint Research Project(No.2024-1-10).
文摘Computer vision-based traffic object detection plays a critical role in road traffic safety.Under hazy weather conditions,images captured by road monitoring systems exhibit three main challenges:significant scale variations,abundant background noise,and diverse perspectives.These factors lead to insufficient detection accuracy and limited real-time performance in object detection algorithms.We propose AMC-YOLO an improved YOLOv11-based traffic detection algorithm to address these challenges.In this work,we replace the C3k block's bottleneck module with our novel attention-gate convolution(AGConv),which improves contextual information capture,enhances feature extraction,and reduces computational redundancy.Additionally,we introduce the multi-dilation sharing convolution(MDSC)module to prevent feature information loss during pooling operations,enhancing the model's sensitivity to multi-scale features.We design a lightweight and efficient cross-channel feature fusion module(CCFM)for the path aggregation neck to adaptively adjust feature weights and optimize the model's overall performance.Experimental results demonstrate that AMC-YOLO achieves a 1.1%improvement in mAP@0.5 and a 2.7%increase in mAP@0.5:0.95 compared to YOLOv11n.On graphics processing unit(GPU)hardware,it achieves real-time performance at 376(FPS)with only 2.6 million parameters,ensuring high-precision traffic detection while meeting deployment requirements on resource-constrained devices.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62276204)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China(No.YJSJ24011)+1 种基金the Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi,China(Nos.2022JM-340 and 2023-JC-QN-0710)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Nos.2020T130494 and 2018M633470)。
文摘Visible and infrared(RGB-IR)fusion object detection plays an important role in security,disaster relief,etc.In recent years,deep-learning-based RGB-IR fusion detection methods have been developing rapidly,but still struggle to deal with the complex and changing scenarios captured by drones,mainly due to two reasons:(A)RGB-IR fusion detectors are susceptible to inferior inputs that degrade performance and stability.(B)RGB-IR fusion detectors are susceptible to redundant features that reduce accuracy and efficiency.In this paper,an innovative RGB-IR fusion detection framework based on global-local feature optimization,named GLFDet,is proposed to improve the detection performance and efficiency of drone-captured objects.The key components of GLFDet include a Global Feature Optimization(GFO)module,a Local Feature Optimization(LFO)module and a Channel Separation Fusion(CSF)module.Specifically,GFO calculates the information content of the input image from the frequency domain and optimizes the features holistically.Then,LFO dynamically selects high-value features and filters out low-value features before fusion,which significantly improves the efficiency of fusion.Finally,CSF fuses the RGB and IR features across the corresponding channels,which avoids the rearrangement of the channel relationships and enhances the model stability.Extensive experimental results show that the proposed method achieves the best performance on three popular RGB-IR datasets Drone Vehicle,VEDAI,and LLVIP.In addition,GLFDet is more lightweight than other comparable models,making it more appealing to edge devices such as drones.The code is available at https://github.com/lao chen330/GLFDet.
基金supported in part by the by Chongqing Research Program of Basic Research and Frontier Technology under Grant CSTB2025NSCQ-GPX1309.
文摘Small object detection has been a focus of attention since the emergence of deep learning-based object detection.Although classical object detection frameworks have made significant contributions to the development of object detection,there are still many issues to be resolved in detecting small objects due to the inherent complexity and diversity of real-world visual scenes.In particular,the YOLO(You Only Look Once)series of detection models,renowned for their real-time performance,have undergone numerous adaptations aimed at improving the detection of small targets.In this survey,we summarize the state-of-the-art YOLO-based small object detection methods.This review presents a systematic categorization of YOLO-based approaches for small-object detection,organized into four methodological avenues,namely attention-based feature enhancement,detection-head optimization,loss function,and multi-scale feature fusion strategies.We then examine the principal challenges addressed by each category.Finally,we analyze the performance of thesemethods on public benchmarks and,by comparing current approaches,identify limitations and outline directions for future research.
基金funded by Beijing Natural Science Foundation,grant number L241078.
文摘The fasteners employed in the railway tracks are susceptible to defects arising from their intricate composition.Foreign objects are frequently observed on the track bed in an open environment.These two types of defects pose potential threats to high-speed trains,thus necessitating timely and accurate track inspection.The majority of extant automatic inspection methods are predicated on the utilization of single visible light data,and the efficacy of the algorithmic processes is influenced by complex environments.Furthermore,due to the single information dimension,the detection accuracy of defects in similar,occluded,and small object categories is low.To address the aforementioned issues,this paper proposes a track defect detectionmethod based on dynamicmulti-modal fusion and challenging object enhanced perception.First,in light of the variances in the representation dimensions ofmultimodal information,this paper proposes a dynamic weighted multi-modal feature fusion module.The fused multi-modal features are assigned weights,and thenmultiplied with the extracted single-modal features atmultiple levels,achieving adaptive adjustment of the response degree of fusion features.Second,a novel stepwise multi-scale convolution feature aggregation module is proposed for challenging objects.The proposed method employs depth separable convolution and cross-scale aggregation operations of different receptive fields to enhance feature extraction and reuse,thereby reducing the degree of progressive loss of effective information.The experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method in comparison to eight established methods,encompassing both single-modal and multi-modal methods,as evidenced by the extensive findings within the constructed RGBD dataset.
基金supported and funded by Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Researchers Supporting Project number(PNURSP2025R410),Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia.
文摘Recognising human-object interactions(HOI)is a challenging task for traditional machine learning models,including convolutional neural networks(CNNs).Existing models show limited transferability across complex datasets such as D3D-HOI and SYSU 3D HOI.The conventional architecture of CNNs restricts their ability to handle HOI scenarios with high complexity.HOI recognition requires improved feature extraction methods to overcome the current limitations in accuracy and scalability.This work proposes a Novel quantum gate-enabled hybrid CNN(QEH-CNN)for effectiveHOI recognition.Themodel enhancesCNNperformance by integrating quantumcomputing components.The framework begins with bilateral image filtering,followed bymulti-object tracking(MOT)and Felzenszwalb superpixel segmentation.A watershed algorithm refines object boundaries by cleaning merged superpixels.Feature extraction combines a histogram of oriented gradients(HOG),Global Image Statistics for Texture(GIST)descriptors,and a novel 23-joint keypoint extractionmethod using relative joint angles and joint proximitymeasures.A fuzzy optimization process refines the extracted features before feeding them into the QEH-CNNmodel.The proposed model achieves 95.06%accuracy on the 3D-D3D-HOI dataset and 97.29%on the SYSU3DHOI dataset.Theintegration of quantum computing enhances feature optimization,leading to improved accuracy and overall model efficiency.
