Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 62, Issue 4, 0437002(2025)

Algorithm for Small Target Detection from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle View

Ruifang Zhang1,2、*, Yiting Du2, and Xiaohui Cheng3
Author Affiliations
  • 1Key Laboratory of Advanced Manufacturing and Automation Technology, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541006, Guangxi , China
  • 2College of Mechanical and Control Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541006, Guangxi , China
  • 3College of Information Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541006, Guangxi , China
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    Figures & Tables(13)
    YOLOv8s structure diagram
    BiEO-YOLOv8s structure diagram
    OD-bottleneck structure diagram
    ODE structure diagram
    ODConv structure diagram
    EMA attention mechanism
    BiEO-Neck network architecture diagram
    Target detection results
    Target detection results
    Line chart of the VisDrone dataset
    Line chart of the IRTarget dataset
    • Table 1. Ablation experiments

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      Table 1. Ablation experiments

      BaselineWIoUODEDetection HeadBiEO-NeckP /%R /%mAP50Model size /MBDetection time/ms
      v8s-052.039.240.722.52.0
      v8s-153.940.441.922.52.3
      v8s-253.639.341.222.33.3
      v8s-354.141.342.222.51.7
      v8s-454.942.643.521.92.7
      v8s-552.340.341.422.33.6
      v8s-65442.543.922.51.9
      v8s-75340.943.321.93.0
      v8s-85542.344.222.23.9
      v8s-9564446.821.64.9
    • Table 2. Comparative experiments

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      Table 2. Comparative experiments

      ModelP /%R /%mAP50Model size /MBDetection time /ms
      Faster-RCNN44.633.433.1121.050.0
      SSD21.336.024.089.230.0
      FS-SSD46.037.236.533.0
      YOLOv3-Tiny36.924.924.024.02.9
      YOLOv433.047.038.1240.025.3
      YOLOv545.034.433.316.012.0
      YOLOv8s51.039.040.722.52.0
      BiEO-YOLOv8s56.044.046.821.64.9
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    Paper Information

    Category: Digital Image Processing

    Received: Apr. 22, 2024

    Accepted: Jun. 17, 2024

    Published Online: Feb. 10, 2025

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    DOI:10.3788/LOP241149

    CSTR:32186.14.LOP241149

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