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Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 62, Issue 10, 1037001(2025)

Trans-YOLO: Improved YOLOv8 with RT-DETR Decoder & Head for Infrared Small Target Detection

Jiannan Liu... Shuxian Liu, Hankiz Yilahun and Askar Hamdulla* |Show fewer author(s)

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Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, Xinjiang , China

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Jiannan Liu, Shuxian Liu, Hankiz Yilahun, Askar Hamdulla. Trans-YOLO: Improved YOLOv8 with RT-DETR Decoder & Head for Infrared Small Target Detection[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2025, 62(10): 1037001

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Paper Information

Category: Digital Image Processing

Received: Aug. 27, 2024

Accepted: Oct. 28, 2024

Published Online: May. 13, 2025

The Author Email: Askar Hamdulla (askar@xju.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/LOP241915

CSTR:32186.14.LOP241915

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