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New detector HGSQ targets real-time aerial small object detection

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Researchers have developed HGSQ, a novel Heatmap-Guided Sparse Query Detector designed for real-time aerial small object detection. This system utilizes a lightweight Heatmap Budget Predictor to identify foreground regions, enabling a more efficient computational approach. HGSQ incorporates components for guided query selection, localized shape refinement, and adaptive query-decoder budgeting, significantly reducing computational load compared to existing Transformer-based detectors. The system demonstrates strong performance on benchmark datasets like NWPU VHR-10 and VisDrone2019, achieving high mAP50 scores while maintaining a high frames per second rate on a consumer-grade GPU. AI

IMPACT This new detection method could improve the efficiency and accuracy of AI systems used in aerial surveillance and autonomous navigation.

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New detector HGSQ targets real-time aerial small object detection

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Yangchen Zeng ·

    HGSQ: Heatmap-Guided Sparse Query Detector for Real-Time Aerial Small Object Detection

    arXiv:2609.13306v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time aerial small object detection is an important visual signal and image processing problem, requiring a detector to preserve fine-grained localization while avoiding redundant computation on large background regions. This pa…

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