Efficient Object Detection

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Efficient object detection studies how to find and locate objects accurately while using limited computation, memory, time, and energy, especially on mobile and edge devices. Common approaches include compact YOLO and real-time DETR models, streamlined feature pyramids, pruning, quantization and teacher-to-student distillation, as well as sparse or adaptive processing that focuses computation on likely objects or informative frames. Work is tested on benchmarks such as COCO for general detection and VisDrone for aerial small objects, alongside measurements on hardware such as phones, embedded boards and FPGAs. The central challenge is balancing accuracy—particularly for tiny or difficult objects—with speed and energy use, while ensuring benchmark gains translate to reliable performance on real devices and varied scenes.

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  1. DocLayout-YOLO: Axis-Attentive Document Layout Detector with Mesh-Guided Synthetic Pretraining

    Oct 20, 2026Zhiyuan Zhao, Hengrui Kang, Guang Liang +2Document Layout AnalysisEfficient Object Detection

    Shanghai AI Laboratory

  2. Precision Cotton Disease Management: Leveraging UAV Imagery and Custom YOLO Deep Learning Framework for Enhanced Detection

    Oct 16, 20261. Anwar Iqbal*1 aiqbal. rime23smme@student. nust. edu. pk 2. Kunwar Faraz Ahmad Khan1 kunwar. faraz@smme. nust. edu. pk 3. Shahbaz Khan1 shahbaz. khan@smme. nust. edu. pk 4. Khawaja Fahad Iqbal1 fahad. iqbal@smme. nust. edu. pk 5. Sara Ali1, 2 sara. baber@smme. nust. edu. pk 6. Saqib Nazir1 saqib. nazir@smme. nust. edu. pk 7. Muhammad Azhar Javed3 muhammadazhar6231@gmail. com 1 Department of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence +11Efficient Object DetectionPlant Disease Classification

    NUST

  3. An Efficient Approach to Beetle Damage Detection of Banana Using Deep Learning

    Oct 16, 2026Md. Mehedi Hasan Naeem, Ishtiyak Ahmmad Araf, Md. Arefin Haque Mahir +1Object DetectionEfficient Object Detection

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University, Trishal, Mymensingh-2224, Bangladesh

  4. Squeeze-Aware-YOLO: Early Channel Recalibration and Multi-Scale Fusion for Real-Time Traffic Sign Detection

    Oct 11, 2026Mizbaul Haque Maruf, Syed Samin Sadaf, Syed Tamzid Bakht +2Traffic Sign DetectionObject Detection

    Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Islamic University of Technology, Boardbazar, Gazipur, Bangladesh

  5. AI-Based On-Board Maritime Object Detection for Earth Observation Payload Data Reduction on Versal Embedded Hardware

    Oct 8, 2026Thomas Goudemant, Aurélien Bobey, Omar Hlimi +1Remote SensingMaritime Surveillance

    IRT Saint Exupéry

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Weave Mamba Fusion: Global Cross-Scale Interaction for Lightweight Face Detection

    Oct 5, 2026Dohun Kim, Jinmyung JungEfficient Object DetectionMulti-Scale Feature Fusion

    School of Data Science, The University of Suwon, Korea

  9. FUSEye: Training-Light Fisheye Detection with Overlapping Views and Zero-Initialized Adapters

    Oct 2, 2026Wenya Su, Kai Luo, Di Wen +5Object DetectionEfficient Object Detection

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and the National Engineering Research Center of Robot Visual Perception and Control Technology, Hunan University, China · Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

  10. CSCWD: Cross-Scale Channel-wise Knowledge Distillation for Lightweight Tiny Object Detection on Edge Devices

    Sep 24, 2026Amir Zamani, Zeinab Ghasemi-NaraghiSmall Object DetectionEfficient Object Detection

    Department of Computer Engineering, Islamic Revolution Comprehensive University, Tehran, Iran · Department of Computer Engineering, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

  11. NPU Accelerator: Quantized Real-Time Vehicle Detection on PYNQ-Z1 Using FINN

    Sep 21, 2026Daniel Gutierrez, Antonio Cuesta, Jorge Fe +2FPGA-Based Neural Network AccelerationReal-Time Object Detection

    Intigia · DFKI

  12. HOIBlender: Blending Lightweight Detection with Vision-Language Priors for Efficient Human-Object Interaction Detection

    Sep 20, 2026Junwen Chen, Keiji YanaiEfficient Object DetectionObject Detection

    Department of Informatics, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

  13. Traffic Sign Recognition for Autonomous Driving Using Branched YOLOv2 and Geometric Features

    Sep 18, 2026Arefeh RezaeiTraffic Sign DetectionAutonomous Driving Perception

    Department of Computer Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology

  14. PointLAM: Local Attentive Mamba for Efficient Point-based 3D Object Detection

    Sep 18, 2026Xuanming Shang, Weijia Zhang, Chao Ma3D Object DetectionEfficient Object Detection

    MoE Key Lab of Artificial Intelligence, Institute of AI, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  15. PointEvent: Rethinking Event-based Tiny Object Detection via Serialized Motion Evidence Accumulation

    Sep 17, 2026Zongze Wu, Baofeng Jia, Weiqi Yan +4Small Object DetectionEfficient Object Detection

    State key Lab of Extreme Environment Optoelectronic Dynamic Testing Technology and Instrument, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China · Jiangsu Key Lab of Visual Sensing and Intelligent Perception, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China · Fujian Key Laboratory of Urban Intelligent Sensing and Computing, Xiamen University, China

  16. SpermYOLO: A Coordinated YOLO-Based Detector for Accurate and Efficient Sperm and Impurity Detection in Microscopic Images

    Sep 13, 2026Shengqi Chen, Zilin Wang, Xingyu Pan +3Object DetectionMicroscopy Image Analysis

    School of Electronic Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 10 Xitucheng Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100876, China · School of Information and Communication Engineering, Zhongyuan University of Technology, 41 Zhongyuan Middle Road, Zhengzhou, Henan Province 450007, China

  17. Bi-Level Routing and Sparse Spatial Attention based Multi-View BEV 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving

    Sep 12, 2026Jing Zhang, Jiaqi Liu, Zibo WangMulti-View 3D Object DetectionEfficient Object Detection

    Stuart Weitzman School of Design University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, USA · Courant Institute of Mathematical Science New York University New York, USA

  18. Quantum-Gated LiteSSD: A Parameter-Efficient Lightweight Hybrid Quantum-Classical Framework for Forward-Looking Sonar Object Detection

    Sep 12, 2026Niloy Kumar Mondal, Poulomi Sarker PujaEfficient Object DetectionUnderwater Object Detection

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh · Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, Khulna 9203, Bangladesh

  19. YOLO12-MambaScan: An Efficient Object Detector with High-Frequency Enhancement and State-Space Modeling

    Sep 12, 2026Hao WangAerial Object DetectionRemote Sensing Small Object Detection

    BDNRC

  20. 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.

  21. A Cloud-Based Hybrid Model for Real-Time Detection of BRTA-Approved Licence Plates Using YOLO Tiny and Haar Cascade

    Sep 6, 2026Debashis Kar Suvra, Tahsina Farah SanamAutomatic License Plate RecognitionObject Detection

    Institute of Appropriate Technology Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology Dhaka, Bangladesh

  22. Efficient Multi-Timescale Event Representations for Feed-Forward Object Detection

    Sep 4, 2026Fredrik Lundell, Per-Erik Forssen, Mårten Wadenbäck +1Event-Based VisionEvent-Based Object Detection

    Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden · Saab AB, Linköping, Sweden

  23. Albireo: Adaptive, Energy-Efficient Inference Framework for Video Object Detection on the Edge

    Aug 29, 2026Amir Taherin, José Cano, Bin Ren +2Edge InferenceEfficient Object Detection

    Northeastern University Boston, MA, USA · University of Glasgow Glasgow, UK · William & Mary Williamsburg, VA, USA

  24. Variable-Granularity Tokenization for High-Resolution Object Detection

    Aug 27, 2026Khayrul IslamVisual TokenizationEfficient Object Detection

    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave, Livermore, CA 94550

  25. ROI-Gated SAHI: Content-Adaptive Slicing-Based Inference for Efficient Object Detection

    Aug 25, 2026Rashid Riyadh, Abd Ullah Khan, Imad Gohar +1Object DetectionEfficient Inference

    Faculty of Information Technology, City University, Malaysia · Department of Information Convergence Engineering, Kyung Hee University, South Korea · Department of Computer Science, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan +3

  26. DiD It in 87 Minutes: A Label-Free Softmax-to-Linear Adaptation of Vision Transformers for Object Detection

    Aug 23, 2026Huaiyuan Qin, Gabriel James Goenawan, Zihang Lin +2Efficient Object DetectionEfficient ViTs

    Institute of Advanced Intelligence and Computing (IAIC), A*STAR, Singapore · Nanyang Technological University

  27. Spiking Neural Networks for Energy-Efficient Object Detection in Forward-Looking Sonar Imagery

    Aug 22, 2026Gwenevere Frank, Gert CauwenberghsEfficient Object DetectionUnderwater Object Detection

    Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA · Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA

  28. One-Stage Object Detectors in Autonomous Driving

    Aug 19, 2026Jonel Roman, Ryan Sirjue, Peter Nguyen +3Object DetectionReal-Time Object Detection

    Florida Gulf Coast University

  29. FD-CanKD: Frequency-Decoupled Cross-Attention Distillation as a Refinement Prior for Compact Object Detectors

    Aug 19, 2026YoungJae Cheong, Jhonghyun AnKnowledge DistillationEfficient Object Detection

    Department of AI and Software, Gachon University, Seongnam, Republic of Korea

  30. MITE-Net: SWaP-Optimized 4K Video Tiny Target Perception for Embodied Edge SAR

    Aug 16, 2026Mingshuo Xu, Mu Hua, Jigen Peng +2Small Object DetectionEfficient Object Detection

    School of Mathematics and Computing Science, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK · Machine Life and Intelligence Research Center, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China