arXiv:2512. 18046v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, commonly known as, drones pose increasing risks in civilian and defense settings, demanding accurate and real-time drone detection systems.
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.
UFO-DETR is an end‑to‑end object detection framework designed for UAV imagery, addressing challenges such as scale variation, dense distribution, and the prevalence of tiny targets. It employs an LSKNet backbone to optimize receptive fields and reduce parameters, integrates DAttention and AIFI modules for flexible multi‑scale spatial modeling, and introduces a DynFreq‑C3 module that enhances small target detection via cross‑space frequency feature enhancement. Experiments demonstrate that UFO‑DETR outperforms RT‑DETR‑L in detection accuracy while improving computational efficiency, making it suitable for UAV edge computing.
arXiv:2606. 06536v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated defect detection in high-voltage transmission-line insulators remains challenging due to severe class imbalance, large scale variation, and the small spatial extent of defect instances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery.
arXiv:2609.10156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and remote sensing imagery requires preserving high-resolution detail while modeling long-range...
arXiv:2606. 03748v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-time vision demands models that are accurate, efficient, and simple to deploy across diverse hardware.
arXiv:2607. 19942v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work introduces G-MAD, an open-source framework that uses Arma3 to generate synchronized multi-view RGB-T data for aerial object detection.
arXiv:2607. 10605v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones have gained rapid response in terms of security, search and rescue (SAR), border surveillance, etc.
arXiv:2608. 11053v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The application of computer vision in agriculture has shown significant potential for improving crop monitoring and precision farming.
Small object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and remote sensing imagery requires preserving high-resolution detail while modeling long-range context. Adding a stride-4 detection level and r...
arXiv:2608.29626v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Salient object detection in optical remote sensing images (ORSI-SOD) requires dense predictions that preserve object completeness and structural contin...
arXiv:2506. 12697v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Small-object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery requires preserving weak local evidence while using broader context to separate tiny foreground targets from cluttered backgrounds.