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
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:2606. 31834v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world detectors for autonomous driving, surveillance, and robotics must handle domain-shifts under strict latency and memory constraints, yet existing source-free object detection (SFOD) methods rely on heavyweight architectures that prioritize accuracy alone.
By Sairam VCR, Varun Gopal, Poornima Jain, Vineeth N Balasubramanian, Muhammad Haris Khan
arXiv:2608.22368v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While linear attention is a compelling mechanism for high-resolution object detection due to its reduced cost for global token mixing, converting the S...
By Huaiyuan Qin, Gabriel James Goenawan, Zihang Lin, Muli Yang, Hongyuan Zhu
arXiv:2609.23431v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Human-object interaction (HOI) detection requires grounding an interacting human-object pair and recognizing the verb that links them, often under seve...
By Junwen Chen, Keiji Yanai
arXiv:2607. 06600v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Line segment detection is a key building block in visual SLAM, 3D reconstruction, and industrial inspection.
By Parsa Hassani Shariat Panahi, Amir Hossein Jalilvand, M. Hassan Najafi