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MEP-YOLOv5s: Small-Target Detection Model for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Captured Images.

Shengbang Zhou¹, Song Zhang¹, Chuanqi Li¹

¹Guangxi Key Laboratory of Functional Information Materials and Intelligent Information Processing, Nanning Normal University, Nanning 530001, China.

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|September 19, 2025

Summary

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A new drone detection model, MEP-YOLOv5s, enhances Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) image analysis for small, dense objects. It improves detection accuracy and efficiency, outperforming existing methods on benchmark datasets.

Keywords:

UAV feature extraction multi-scale attention small object detection

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Area of Science:

Computer Vision
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Remote Sensing

Background:

Object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) aerial imagery faces challenges due to complex backgrounds, scale variations, and dense small objects.
Traditional algorithms struggle to adapt to these demanding scenarios.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce MEP-YOLOv5s, an optimized drone detection model based on YOLOv5s.
To enhance feature extraction and adaptability for improved small object detection in UAV imagery.
To balance detection accuracy and inference efficiency using a Comprehensive Performance Indicator (CPI).

Main Methods:

Optimized Backbone, Neck layer, and C3 module of YOLOv5s.
Integrated effective attention mechanisms.
Replaced Complete Intersection over Union (CIoU) loss with Minimum Point Distance-based Intersection over Union (MPDIoU) loss.
Proposed a Comprehensive Performance Indicator (CPI) to evaluate accuracy and efficiency.

Main Results:

MEP-YOLOv5s achieved a 3.3% improvement in precision (P) and a 20.9% increase in mAP@0.5 on the VisDrone2019 dataset.
Demonstrated a 19.86% gain in CPI (α = 0.5) compared to the baseline model.
Outperformed state-of-the-art methods on the NWPU VHR-10 dataset.

Conclusions:

MEP-YOLOv5s offers a robust solution for UAV-based small object detection.
The model exhibits enhanced feature extraction and attention-driven adaptability.
The proposed method effectively addresses the challenges of detecting small and dense objects in complex aerial scenes.