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EMFE-YOLO: A Lightweight Small Object Detection Model for UAVs.
Chengjun Yang1, Yan Shen1, Lutao Wang1
1School of Computer Science, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu 610225, China.
A new lightweight model, EMFE-YOLO, enhances small object detection for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) by improving feature extraction and reducing parameters. This makes accurate aerial image analysis feasible on resource-limited drones.
Area of Science:
- Computer Vision
- Artificial Intelligence
- Robotics
Background:
- Small object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) aerial imagery presents significant challenges, including low accuracy and complex backgrounds.
- Deploying large-parameter object detection models on resource-constrained UAVs is computationally prohibitive.
Purpose of the Study:
- To propose a lightweight small object detection model, EMFE-YOLO, designed for efficient deployment on UAVs.
- To enhance detection accuracy for small objects in complex aerial backgrounds while minimizing model parameters.
Main Methods:
- Developed EMFE-YOLO by improving the YOLOv8s architecture.
- Integrated the Enhanced Attention to Large-scale Features (EALF) structure to focus on large-scale features and improve small object detection.
- Incorporated the efficient multi-scale feature enhancement (EMFE) module for feature extraction and background interference mitigation.
- Utilized DySample in the neck of the network to optimize feature upsampling.
Main Results:
- EMFE-YOLO demonstrated significant improvements on the VisDrone2019-val dataset, with mAP50 increasing by 8.5% and mAP50:95 by 6.3% compared to YOLOv8s.
- The model achieved a substantial reduction in parameters, decreasing by 73% relative to YOLOv8s.
- Achieved a favorable balance between detection accuracy and computational efficiency.
Conclusions:
- EMFE-YOLO offers a viable solution for accurate and efficient small object detection in aerial imagery from UAVs.
- The proposed model's lightweight nature makes it suitable for deployment on UAVs with limited computational resources.

