arXiv:2609.23061v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small-object detection in UAV imagery is challenged by weak visual evidence, ambiguous boundaries, dense object distributions, and complex backgrounds....
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.
arXiv:2607.17669v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Drone-based object detection technology has advanced rapidly, becoming increasingly sophisticated and efficient. Recently, research trends have exp...
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:2609.07780v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Automated drone surveillance has become increasingly important for public safety, critical infrastructure protection,and restricted airspace monito...
arXiv:2606. 03748v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-time vision demands models that are accurate, efficient, and simple to deploy across diverse hardware.
arXiv:2605.07388v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Marine debris detection for ocean robot is crucial for ecological protection, yet performance is often degraded by low-quality images with blur, co...
arXiv:2609.25500v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training data quantity and quality greatly affect object detection model performance, regardless of model architecture. When using object detection mod...
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.