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New BUTR method optimizes tiny object detection with dynamic query budgeting

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Researchers have developed a new method called BUTR (Budgeting-based DETR) to improve tiny object detection in images. This approach disentangles the effects of query selection and query quantity, focusing on dynamic query as a form of 'budgeting' to allocate capacity based on object density. BUTR utilizes a lightweight, non-learned budgeter to estimate query needs, avoiding complex predictors and heuristic filtering. The system demonstrates strong performance on datasets like AI-TOD-v2 and VisDrone, achieving high AP scores while maintaining efficient FPS on an NVIDIA T4 GPU. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more efficient and accurate object detection systems, particularly for small or densely packed objects in images.

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New BUTR method optimizes tiny object detection with dynamic query budgeting

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Yi Zhang, Di Xiong, Ge Gao, Xiangyue Zhang, Yihang Qiu, Yuxuan Zhou, Shuo Chen ·

    Dynamic Query as Budgeting for Tiny Object Detection

    arXiv:2610.33430v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent DETR-based tiny object detectors adopt dynamic query mechanisms to handle severe density imbalance. However, existing designs entangle two effects: how many and which queries are decoded. This entanglement obscures what drive…

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