Electronics Optics & Control, Volume. 32, Issue 7, 21(2025)

SD-YOLO: A Multi-scale Small Target Detection Algorithm

ZHAO Binlin, SUN Ling, CHEN Gong, ZHONG Jiandan, and FU Lin
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  • College of Communication Engineering,Chengdu University of Information Technology,Chengdu 610000,China
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    Received: May. 11, 2024

    Accepted: Jul. 11, 2025

    Published Online: Jul. 11, 2025

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    DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1671-637x.2025.07.004

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