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...
By Junjie Fan, Yijun Mai, Linduo Wei, Jiayu Rao, Junmin Bao, Qiushi Jin, Guijia Li, Yong Qi
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.
By Yuxiang Wang, Xuecheng Bai, Chuanzhi Xu, Ying Zhou, Weidong Cai
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....
By Linduo Wei, Junjie Fan, Yijun Mai, Yong Qi
The paper introduces Cross-Scale Channel-wise Knowledge Distillation (CSCWD), a training-time framework that transfers high‑resolution spatial representations from a YOLO11m‑P2 teacher to a lightweight YOLO11n student without changing the student’s inference architecture. CSCWD aligns teacher P2 features with student P3 while also applying same‑scale distillation at deeper pyramid levels, yielding a 2.92‑point mAP@0.5 improvement over the baseline and a 2.09‑point gain over same‑scale distillation alone. In zero‑shot tests on DUT‑Anti‑UAV and on a Raspberry Pi 5, the 2.58‑million‑parameter student reaches 50.32% mAP@0.5 at 82.32 ms latency (12.15 fps) with negligible runtime or memory increase.
By Amir Zamani, Zeinab Ghasemi-Naraghi
General-purpose object detectors lose accuracy on UAV footage, where targets span only a handful of pixels and onboard compute is limited. Prior work composes independently-validated architectural tec...
arXiv:2609.14560v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: General-purpose object detectors lose accuracy on UAV footage, where targets span only a handful of pixels and onboard compute is limited. Prior work c...
By Quratulain Nayeem, Fahmina Taranum, Mohammed Mudassir Uddin