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This study introduces ESOD-YOLO, an efficient object detection model for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). It significantly improves small object detection in aerial images with fewer parameters, enhancing drone capabilities.

Keywords:

RepNIBMS module WFPN module aerial images small object detection tri-focal loss function

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Remote Sensing

Background:

Aerial images present unique challenges for object detection, including scale variation, occlusion, and dense small targets.
Existing algorithms often struggle with small object feature extraction and spatial-semantic data integration, limiting drone deployment due to high parameter counts.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop an efficient small-object detection model (ESOD-YOLO) for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) based on YOLOv8n.
To enhance the extraction of small object information and improve spatial-semantic data fusion in aerial imagery.
To create a model with a reduced parameter count suitable for resource-constrained drone hardware.

Main Methods:

Replaced the C2f module in the YOLOv8n backbone with Reparameterized Multi-scale Inverted Blocks (RepNIBMS) for improved small object feature extraction.
Designed a Wave Feature Pyramid Network (WFPN) for enhanced cross-level multi-scale feature fusion, integrating spatial and semantic information.
Incorporated a dedicated small-object detection head and proposed a tri-focal loss function to handle imbalanced aerial image datasets.

Main Results:

ESOD-YOLO achieved 29.3% average mean accuracy on the VisDrone2019 test set (640x640 input size), outperforming the baseline YOLOv8n by 3.6%.
The model has a parameter count of 4.46 million, demonstrating efficiency for drone deployment.
Achieved superior detection accuracy compared to other methods while maintaining a lower parameter count.

Conclusions:

ESOD-YOLO effectively addresses the challenges of small object detection in aerial images for UAV applications.
The proposed model offers a balance between high detection accuracy and computational efficiency, making it suitable for real-time drone operations.
The integration of RepNIBMS, WFPN, and tri-focal loss provides a robust solution for aerial object detection tasks.