arXiv Computer Vision

NPLSD: Accelerating Line-Segment Detection on NPU Microcontrollers

The paper introduces NPLSD, a pair of line‑segment detectors optimized for the Neural‑ART NPU on STM32N6 microcontrollers. NPLSD‑H retains a convolutional backbone and replaces transformer components with a fully‑convolutional head, while NPLSD‑M adapts a lightweight trunk to the NPU’s supported operators. Trained on ImageNet and ShanghaiTech Wireframe, the models achieve competitive accuracy with 2.63 M and 0.62 M parameters, respectively, and ablation studies show initialization contributes significantly to performance.

arXiv AI
Sep 10

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.

By Adrien Dorise, Marjorie Bellizzi, Julia Cohen, St\'ephane May
Hugging Face Trending Papers
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 Computer Vision
Sep 11

Adaptive Dual-Constrained Line Aggregation for Cross-Paradigm Line Segment Detection

The paper introduces Adaptive Dual-Constrained Line Aggregation (ADLA), a framework that extracts line segments across multiple detection paradigms by aggregating pixels from an edge strength map under orientation coherence and bounded orthogonal distance constraints. ADLA dynamically updates line centroids and orientations, incorporates edge strength into various stages, and reduces parameter tuning. Experiments on generic, wireframe, and Manhattan line segment datasets show strong performance, achieving F^H scores of 0.8665, 0.8720, and 0.7297 respectively.

By Chenguang Liu, Chisheng Wang, Huilin Chen, Chuanhua Zhu, Qingquan Li
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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 8

Edge-Constrained UAV Small-Object Detection with P2 Enhancement and Quantum-Inspired Lightweight Structure Search

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) object detection requires compact detectors that retain small-object details under onboard computation and memory constraints. Repeated downsampling inlightweight networks weakens shallow spatial information, while manually adding attention orfusion modules may increase cost without stable gains.