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TriCCOT: Tri-part Convolutional Conformal Transformer for Onboard Space Object Detection

TriCCOT is a tri-part architecture designed for onboard space object detection that balances computational efficiency with robust performance. It combines a convolutional region proposal network, a conformal prediction stage that enlarges bounding boxes with distribution‑free probabilistic coverage, and Aper‑GATES—a hardware‑friendly attention‑based classifier that replaces standard transformer operations with convolutional projections and gating. Experiments on DIOR and VDVRaw datasets show competitive detection accuracy and improved robustness to blur and noise, and the model was fully deployed on a Xilinx Versal VCK190 FPGA without altering the underlying DPU architecture.

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Sep 8

TriCCOT: Tri-part Convolutional Conformal Transformer for Onboard Space Object Detection

TriCCOT is a tri-part architecture designed for onboard space object detection that balances computational efficiency with robust performance. It combines a convolutional region proposal network, a conformal prediction stage that enlarges bounding boxes with distribution‑free probabilistic coverage, and Aper‑GATES, a hardware‑friendly attention‑based classifier that replaces standard transformer operations with convolutional projections and gating. Experiments on DIOR and VDVRaw datasets show competitive detection accuracy and improved robustness to spatial blur and noise, and the model was fully deployed on a Xilinx Versal VCK190 FPGA without altering the underlying DPU architecture.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 13

Achieving Near-Zero-Overhead Multi-Model Hierarchical Classification in Real-Time Detection Pipelines

arXiv:2608. 11770v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Edge-deployed vision systems in target recognition, surveillance, autonomous vehicles, and drone domains require hierarchical inference pipelines where a detection model identifies objects of interest and downstream classifiers provide fine-grained attribute analysis.

By Vaishnav Raju
arXiv AI
Sep 17

Ultralytics YOLO Evolution: An Overview of YOLO27, YOLO26, YOLO11, YOLOv8, and YOLOv5 Object Detectors for Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

This paper provides a detailed overview of the Ultralytics YOLO family from YOLOv5 to YOLO27, highlighting key architectural changes, benchmarking results, and deployment considerations. It discusses the evolution of each version—YOLO27’s scale‑adaptive dual architecture, YOLO26’s loss and optimization refinements, YOLO11’s efficiency focus, YOLOv8’s anchor‑free detection, and YOLOv5’s modular ecosystem—alongside performance metrics on COCO and latency on TensorRT. The review also surveys applications in robotics, agriculture, surveillance, and manufacturing, and outlines future challenges such as dense scene handling, CNN‑Transformer integration, and hardware‑aware optimization.

By Ranjan Sapkota, Manoj Karkee
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

GaLe: memory-efficient Global Approximate and Local Exact features

GaLe is a memory‑efficient technique that allows pretrained neural networks to run on resource‑constrained devices without retraining. It splits feature maps into a local exact component that keeps fine details and a global approximate component that preserves long‑range dependencies, enabling global operations and attention mechanisms typical of hybrid CNN‑transformer models. On ImageNet, GaLe matches exact‑inference accuracy while delivering up to 65% speedup and 90% RAM reduction on a Cortex‑M33, and it works across classification, detection, and generation tasks.

By Alberto Ancilotto, Elisabetta Farella
arXiv AI
Oct 27

ACSAN: All-Convolutional Self-Attention Network Integrating Convolutional Operations with Vision Transformer

The paper introduces ACSAN, an All‑Convolutional Self‑Attention Network that replaces the fully‑connected matrix multiplications of Vision Transformers with convolution operations. Its core module, Dynamic Convolutional Self‑Attention (DCSA), uses multi‑scale dilated convolutions to produce Query, Key, and Value tensors, and combines spatial and channel self‑attention into a single output. Experiments on CIFAR‑10, CIFAR‑100, and ImageNet‑1k demonstrate that ACSAN attains competitive or superior classification accuracy to ViT while using comparable or fewer parameters, and ablation studies confirm the positive contribution of each component.

By Zimian Wei, Tianqi Zhang, Hengyue Pan
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 23

GTR: Gated Token Recurrence for Efficient Dense Prediction

The paper introduces Gated Token Recurrence (GTR), a softmax‑free recurrent vision backbone that replaces global softmax attention with gated linear attention, alternating scan directions, and enhanced SwiGLU blocks. GTR is distilled from a DINOv3 teacher using only final‑layer patch‑token alignment, and achieves strong performance on COCO object detection (58.9 box AP) with very low latency (1.908 ms on an RTX 4090). The backbone also transfers to multiple dense prediction tasks and runs efficiently on edge hardware via a specialized CUDA operator and TensorRT deployment.

By Zhe Feng, Longfei Liu, Wei Liu, Kai Chen, Jiangjiang Kong, Wei Zhou, Yifeng Qian, Dexiong Chen, Xuanlong Yu, Xi Shen
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 8

LiG-DETR: Local-in-Global Reassembly in Latent Space for Aerial Object Detection

LiG-DETR introduces a Global-Local Reassembly framework for aerial object detection that captures high‑fidelity local features before compression and integrates them into a unified end‑to‑end DETR decoder. The method uses a shared encoder to extract both global and locally magnified features, reassembles the local features according to their spatial positions, and employs Context‑Preserved Selective Reassembly and Density‑Aware Adaptive Query Allocation to reduce redundant computation. Experiments demonstrate significant improvements on small and medium objects while maintaining strong performance on large objects, with favorable accuracy–efficiency trade‑offs and better cross‑domain generalization.

By Yupeng Zhang, Fangzhuo Gao, Juntao Cheng, Ziyi Zhao, Liang Wan, Ruize Han
arXiv AI
Oct 9

The Operator Mismatch Problem: Deploying BEV Perception with Portable GPU Compute

The paper introduces BEVPIPE, a framework that enables deployment of bird's-eye-view (BEV) perception models—used in autonomous driving to fuse camera and LiDAR data—on portable GPU compute APIs. By partitioning the model into dense subgraphs managed by standard inference runtimes and handling sparse 3D convolutions and geometric scatter operations through external extensions, BEVPIPE achieves a 19.5× speedup while preserving 98.5% of the reference mean average precision. The approach also demonstrates portability across different GPU backends, breaking the current reliance on CUDA-only, PyTorch‑coupled sparse convolution libraries.

By Rohit Verma, Anand V Bodas