Detection Transformer

Also known as DETR

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Detection Transformer studies object detectors that use transformer encoders and decoders to turn image features into a set of object classes and locations. Object queries represent candidate objects, while one-to-one assignment—often Hungarian matching—trains predictions without conventional anchors or non-maximum suppression. Researchers improve these models with deformable attention, stronger multi-scale features, better query selection and matching, and adaptations for tasks such as small-object, oriented, 3D, and open-vocabulary detection. A central challenge is balancing accuracy and generalization against training and inference cost, especially in real-time or high-resolution settings.

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  1. Dynamic Query as Budgeting for Tiny Object Detection

    Oct 24, 2026Yi Zhang, Di Xiong, Ge Gao +4Small Object DetectionDetection Transformer

    School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University, China · Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, RIKEN, Japan

  2. RiO-DETRv2: Geometry-Aware Uncertainty Modeling Meets Real-Time Oriented Object Detection Transformer

    Oct 21, 2026Zhangchi Hu, Zilong He, Yifan Zhao +6Object DetectionDetection Transformer

    University of Science and Technology of China · Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center

  3. LiG-DETR: Local-in-Global Reassembly in Latent Space for Aerial Object Detection

    Oct 7, 2026Yupeng Zhang, Fangzhuo Gao, Juntao Cheng +3Aerial Object DetectionRemote Sensing Small Object Detection

    Tianjin University. · Shanghai Jiaotong University. · Shanghai AI Laboratory. +1

  4. RT-DETR-World: Transferring Rich LLM Semantics to Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Detection

    Oct 7, 2026Yupeng Zhang, Ziyi Zhao, Juntao Cheng +4Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionReal-Time Object Detection

    Tianjin University. · Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology. · Shanghai Jiaotong University. +1

  5. Revisiting Frame-Wise Saliency for Audio Moment Retrieval

    Oct 5, 2026Tatsuya Komatsu, Hokuto MunakataDetection TransformerAudio Understanding

    LY Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

  6. Order Matters: Competition-Guided Query Ordering for RNN-Based Object Detection

    Oct 4, 2026Shengjian Wu, Li Sun, Yu Shangguan +1Detection TransformerObject Detection

    Shanghai Key Laboratory of Multidimensional Information Processing, East China Normal University · FinVolution Group · Key Laboratory of Advanced Theory and Application in Statistics and Data Science, East China Normal University

  7. PQR3D: Progressive Query Refinement over Reference-Conditioned Temporal Windows for Multi-View 3D Object Detection

    Sep 26, 2026Hui Ye, Yudong Liu, Yiran Chen +2Multi-View 3D Object Detection3D Object Detection

    Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University · School of Computing, University of Connecticut

  8. EviDETR: Preserving Query-Relevant Temporal Evidence for Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection

    Sep 25, 2026Haoran Sun, Yufan Li, Qichen Zhang +2Video Moment RetrievalTemporal Video Understanding

    Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University, Zhuhai, China

  9. Enhanced Knowledge Distillation for Detection Transformer via Teacher Prediction Refinement

    Sep 17, 2026Yitong Xing, Yuhao Cheng, Yanping Li +1Detection TransformerObject Detection

    School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

  10. HGSQ: Heatmap-Guided Sparse Query Detector for Real-Time Aerial Small Object Detection

    Sep 10, 2026Yangchen ZengObject DetectionAerial Object Detection

    School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, China.

  11. CLSC DETR: Reliable Candidate Ranking via Cross Layer Geometric Support for UAV Small Object Detection

    Aug 20, 2026Junyan LinAerial Object DetectionDetection Transformer

    South China Agricultural University Guangzhou, China

  12. Comparative Study of Out-of-the-Box Technology for Automatic Target Detection and Recognition

    Aug 18, 2026Alma M. Liezenga, Lotte Nijskens, Henrik R. Baumann +12Object DetectionAerial Object Detection

    Intelligent Imaging, TNO Defence, Safety and Security, The Hague, The Netherlands · Division Defence Systems, Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace, Kongsberg, Norway · Object Recognition OBJ, Fraunhofer IOSB, Karlsruhe, Germany +5

  13. DRAFE: Domain-Robust Asymmetric Fusion of Heterogeneous Detection Transformers for Cross-City Fine-Grained Traffic Object Detection

    Aug 17, 2026Divine Yao Agbobli, Geoffery Eyram Agorku, Israel Afriyie +6Object DetectionEnsemble Learning

    Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA · University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA · Parsons Corporation, USA +3

  14. TinyDETR-Pose: Towards End-to-End Real-Time Single-Stage 6DoF Object Pose Estimation with Lightweight Transformers

    Aug 15, 2026Paul Julius Kühn, Duc Anh Nguyen, Saptarshi Neil Sinha +2Object Pose EstimationEdge Inference

    Fraunhofer IGD 64283 Darmstadt, Germany · TU Darmstadt, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany · TU Delft 2628 CD Delft, Netherlands

  15. Local Gains and Fixed-Assignment Set Losses in Shared Set Decoders

    Aug 12, 2026Ze Zhang, Yang ZhangSet PredictionDetection Transformer

    School of Biomedical Engineering, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China · Wuhan United Imaging Surgical Co., Ltd., Wuhan, China

  16. A Comparative Evaluation of Deep Learning Object Detection Models on a Real-World Multi-Plant Dataset from Africa

    Aug 11, 2026Ismail Ismail Tijjani, Sunusi Muhammad Ibrahim, Amina Ibrahim Khaleel +5Agricultural Image AnalysisDetection Transformer

    Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. · Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. · Department of Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria. +4

  17. Modern Backbones Improve Multi-task DETR for Mammography Classification and Lesion Localization

    Aug 10, 2026Dinh Tan Nguyen, Quang-Hien Kha, Le-Hoang Nguyen +8Detection TransformerMulti-Task Learning

    University of Technology Sydney, Australia. · Saigon Precision Medicine Research Center, Vietnam. · College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan. +3

  18. Where Is the Bee? Detecting Tiny Pollinators with a Single Collaborative-Head Transformer

    Aug 9, 2026Junsu Kim, Seungryul BaekSmall Object DetectionDetection Transformer

    UNIST, South Korea

  19. Corrupting Attention: Evasion-Based Adversarial Attacks on Encoder Attention in Detection Transformers

    Aug 7, 2026Ridma Jayasundara, Shaheer Mohamed, Tharindu Fernando +6Adversarial AttacksAdversarial Robustness

    Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence and Vision Technologies Group (SAIVT), Queensland University of Technology · Institute of High-Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore · School of Computing, National University of Singapore +1

  20. Advancing Utility Pole and Sign Detection Through Deep Learning

    Aug 4, 2026Carl Dickinson, Gaetano Di CaterinaDetection TransformerObject Detection

    University of Strathclyde United Kingdom

  21. Probing the 3D Object-Level Understanding of Pre-Trained Detection Transformers

    Aug 2, 2026Robin Kim, Colin Samplawski, Benjamin M. MarlinDetection TransformerRepresentation Probing

    UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA · SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA

  22. Beyond Symmetric Fusion: Exploiting Task-Dependent Modality Strengths for RGB-Event Small Object Detection

    Aug 2, 2026Ziheng Wang, Chaolang Li, Yutong Yang +5Small Object DetectionDetection Transformer

    Sun Yat-sen University · Shenzhen University

  23. Enabling Fully Integer-Only Inference for Lightweight Detection Transformers

    Jul 27, 2026Thanh Cong Le, Michal Szczepanski, Martyna PorebaEfficient Transformer InferenceEfficient Inference

    Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, List, Palaiseau, F-91120, France

  24. Small-Pollinator Detection in Cluttered Field Video

    Jul 24, 2026Onur Onal, Chen ChenSmall Object DetectionDetection Transformer

    Iowa State University · Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA · Institute of AI, University of Central Florida +1

  25. Gaze-DETR: Top-Down Guidance Through Priority Maps for Infrared Weak-Small UAV Detection with DETR

    Jul 21, 2026Nian Liu, Yuxin Yang, Shubo Lin +6Infrared Small Target DetectionDetection Transformer

    State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · School of Advanced Interdisciplinary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China +3

  26. DETRAM: End-to-end DEtection, Tracking and Recovery of HumAn Meshes

    Jul 10, 2026Chunggi Lee, Seonwook Park, Wanhua Li +23D ReconstructionHuman Mesh Recovery

    1Harvard University · 2NVIDIA · 3Nanyang Technological University

  27. LOGOS: Language-guided Oriented Object Detection in Aerial Scenes

    Jul 9, 2026Trong-Thuan Nguyen, Minh-Triet TranDetection TransformerObject Detection

    University of Science, VNU-HCM, Vietnam · Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  28. FSDC-DETR: A Frequency-Spatial Domain Collaborative DETR for Small Object Detection

    Jul 6, 2026Aiwen Liu, Chengguang Zhu, Gang Wang +5Small Object DetectionDetection Transformer

    Micro-Intelligence, Shanghai 201100, China · East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China · Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 401331, China +1

  29. Dual Sparse Aggregation Transformer for Multispectral Object Detection

    Jun 30, 2026Wencong Wu, Xiuwei Zhang, Hanlin Yin +2Multispectral Object DetectionDetection Transformer

    School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China · School of Computer Science, the Shaanxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Speech and Image Information Processing and the National Engineering Laboratory for Integrated Aerospace-Ground-Ocean Big Data Application Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China · School of Cybersecurity, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China

  30. FR-DETR: Frequency and Recurrent Feature Refinement for Robust Object Detection under Adverse Weather

    Jun 29, 2026Tuan-Duc Nguyen, Duc-Trong LeFrequency-Domain Feature LearningDetection Transformer

    FPT Software AI Center · VNU University of Engineering and Technology