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. SparseVoxelDet: Fully Sparse Voxel Networks for Efficient Event-Based Drone Detection

    Mar 23, 2026Mohamad Yazan Sadoun, Sarah Sharif, Yaser Mike BanadEvent-Based Object DetectionEfficient Object Detection

    Inquire Lab, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.

  2. EdgeCrafter: Compact ViTs for Edge Dense Prediction via Task-Specialized Distillation

    Mar 19, 2026Longfei Liu, Yongjie Hou, Yang Li +7Dense PredictionEfficient ViTs

    Intellindust AI Lab

  3. Does YOLO Really Need to See Every Training Image in Every Epoch?

    Mar 18, 2026Xingxing Xie, Jiahua Dong, Junwei Han +1Efficient Object DetectionTraining Data Selection

    School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University · School of Artificial Intelligence, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications

  4. PKINet-v2: Towards Powerful and Efficient Poly-Kernel Remote Sensing Object Detection

    Mar 17, 2026Xinhao Cai, Liulei Li, Gensheng Pei +3Remote SensingEfficient Object Detection

    Nanjing University of Science and Technology · State Key Lab. of Intelligent Manufacturing of Advanced Construction Machinery · Zhejiang University +1

  5. GLANCE: Gaze-Led Attention Network for Compressed Edge-inference

    Mar 16, 2026Neeraj Solanki, Hong Ding, Sepehr Tabrizchi +4Edge InferenceEfficient Object Detection

    Neeraj Solanki, Hong Ding, Sepehr Tabrizchi, Ali Shafiee Sarvestani, and Arman Roohi are with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago IL, USA. · S. Angizi is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ, USA · D. Z. Pan is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.

  6. Scale-Gest: Scalable Model-Space Synthesis and Runtime Selection for On-Device Gesture Detection

    Mar 16, 2026Abdul Basit, Saim Rehman, Muhammad ShafiqueGesture RecognitionOn-Device Inference

    New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE

  7. COTONET: A custom cotton detection algorithm based on YOLO11 for stage of growth cotton boll detection

    Mar 12, 2026Guillem González, Guillem Alenyà, Sergi FoixObject DetectionEfficient Object Detection

    Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (CSIC-UPC), Llorens i Artigas 4-6, Barcelona, 08028, Spain

  8. Detect Anything in Real Time: From Single-Prompt Segmentation to Multi-Class Detection

    Mar 12, 2026Mehmet Kerem TurkcanObject DetectionEfficient Object Detection

    Columbia University

  9. Novel Architecture of RPA In Oral Cancer Lesion Detection

    Mar 11, 2026Revana Magdy, Joy Naoum, Ali HamdiMedical Image AnalysisEfficient Object Detection

    MSA University, Giza, Egypt

  10. YOLO-NAS-Bench: A Surrogate Benchmark with Self-Evolving Predictors for YOLO Architecture Search

    Mar 10, 2026Zhe Li, Xiaoyu Ding, Jiaxin Zheng +1Neural Architecture SearchObject Detection

    Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University

  11. Beyond Hungarian: Match-Free Supervision for End-to-End Object Detection

    Mar 9, 2026Shoumeng Qiu, Xinrun Li, Yang LongObject DetectionDetection Transformer

    BOSCH · Durham University

  12. Real-Time Glottis Detection Framework via Spatial-decoupled Feature Learning for Nasal Transnasal Intubation

    Mar 8, 2026Jinyu Liu, Gaoyang Zhang, Yang Zhou +3Efficient Object DetectionReal-Time Object Detection

    Hubei Key Laboratory of Modern Manufacturing Quality Engineering, Hubei University of Technology, Nanhu Avenue 28, Wuhan, 430068, Hubei, China · School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Luoyu Road 1037, Wuhan, 430074, Hubei, China · Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, 999077, China +2

  13. OV-DEIM: Real-time DETR-Style Open-Vocabulary Object Detection with GridSynthetic Augmentation

    Mar 7, 2026Leilei Wang, Longfei Liu, Xi Shen +4Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionReal-Time Object Detection

    Intellindust AI Lab · Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (SZ), Shenzhen, China · College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, China +2

  14. Small Target Detection Based on Mask-Enhanced Attention Fusion of Visible and Infrared Remote Sensing Images

    Mar 6, 2026Qianqian Zhang, Xiaolong Jia, Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem +2Remote Sensing Small Object DetectionEfficient Object Detection

    National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK +1

  15. DLRMamba: Distilling Low-Rank Mamba for Edge Multispectral Fusion Object Detection

    Mar 6, 2026Qianqian Zhang, Leon Tabaro, Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem +1Efficient Object DetectionState Space Models

    National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 101499, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China · School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, E1 4NS, UK +1

  16. Low-Latency Event-Based Object Detection with Spatially-Sparse Linear Attention

    Mar 6, 2026Haiqing Hao, Zhipeng Sui, Rong Zou +4Efficient Object DetectionLinear Attention

    State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Robotics and Perception Group, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland · ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China

  17. CollabOD: Collaborative Multi-Backbone with Cross-scale Vision for UAV Small Object Detection

    Mar 6, 2026Xuecheng Bai, Yuxiang Wang, Chuanzhi Xu +3Efficient Object DetectionSmall Object Detection

    Aviation Traffic Control Technology (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China · The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia · Research Institute of Traffic Control Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing, China +1

  18. Adaptive Enhancement and Dual-Pooling Sequential Attention for Lightweight Underwater Object Detection with YOLOv10

    Mar 4, 2026Md. Mushibur Rahman, Umme Fawzia Rahim, Enam Ahmed TaufikObject DetectionUnderwater Object Detection

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology Gazipur, 1707, Bangladesh · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BRAC University Dhaka, Bangladesh

  19. HDINO: A Concise and Efficient Open-Vocabulary Detector

    Mar 3, 2026Hao Zhang, Yiqun Wang, Qinran Lin +2Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionMultimodal Object Detection

    Chongqing University

  20. When Bigger is Worse: A Practitioner's Guide to Model Selection Under Data Scarcity

    Mar 2, 2026Kwame Mbobda-Kuate, Gabriel KasmiModel SelectionEfficient Object Detection

    ENSAE Paris, Palaiseau, 91120, France. · Centre O.I.E., Mines Paris – PSL University, Sophia-Antipolis, 06904, France.

  21. D-FINE-seg: Object Detection and Instance Segmentation Framework with multi-backend deployment

    Feb 26, 2026Argo Saakyan, Dmitry SolntsevInstance SegmentationDetection Transformer

    Veryfi Inc.

  22. UFO-DETR: Frequency-Guided End-to-End Detector for UAV Tiny Objects

    Feb 26, 2026Yuankai Chen, Kai Lin, Qihong Wu +6Small Object DetectionAerial Object Detection

    Easy Lab, College of Mathematics and Informatics, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China · School of Mathematics, Foshan University, Foshan, China

  23. SPMamba-YOLO: An Underwater Object Detection Network Based on Multi-Scale Feature Enhancement and Global Context Modeling

    Feb 26, 2026Guanghao Liao, Zhen Liu, Liyuan Cao +2Underwater Object DetectionEfficient Object Detection

    School of Electronic and Information Engineering, University of Science and Technology Liaoning, Anshan, 114051, China

  24. Le-DETR: Revisiting Real-Time Detection Transformer with Efficient Encoder Design

    Feb 24, 2026Jiannan Huang, Aditya Kane, Fengzhe Zhou +2Real-Time Object DetectionEfficient Object Detection

    Beijing Jiaotong University

  25. A text-guided vision model for enhanced recognition of small instances

    Feb 23, 2026Hyun-Ki JungSmall Object DetectionEfficient Object Detection

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

  26. FinSight-Net:A Physics-Aware Decoupled Network with Frequency-Domain Compensation for Underwater Fish Detection in Smart Aquaculture

    Feb 23, 2026Jinsong Yang, Zeyuan Hu, Yichen Li +1Underwater Object DetectionEfficient Object Detection

    Dalian Key Laboratory of Smart Fishery, Dalian, China · College of Information Engineering, Dalian Ocean University, China · Liaoning Provincial Key of Marine Information Technology, China +2

  27. YOLO26: A Comprehensive Architecture Overview and Key Improvements

    Feb 16, 2026Priyanto Hidayatullah, Refdinal TubagusYou Only Look OnceObject Detection

    Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, Politeknik Negeri Bandung, Kab. Bandung Barat, Indonesia · Stunning Vision AI, Kota Cimahi, Indonesia

  28. LiM-YOLO: Less is More with Pyramid Level Shift for Ship Detection in Optical Remote Sensing

    Dec 10, 2025Seon-Hoon Kim, Yerin Kim, Hyeji Sim +3Remote Sensing Small Object DetectionSmall Object Detection

    University of Science and Technology (UST), Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea · Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Daejeon 34133, Republic of Korea

  29. LeAD-M3D: Leveraging Asymmetric Distillation for Real-Time Monocular 3D Detection

    Dec 5, 2025Johannes Meier, Jonathan Michel, Oussema Dhaouadi +7Efficient Object DetectionReal-Time Object Detection

    DeepScenario · ETH Zurich · TU Munich +5

  30. RT-DETRv4: Painlessly Furthering Real-Time Object Detection with Vision Foundation Models

    Oct 29, 2025Zijun Liao, Yian Zhao, Xin Shan +5Real-Time Object DetectionEfficient Object Detection

    School of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Peking University, Shenzhen, China · Department of Automation and BNRist, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China