MD-DRIFPN: dilated multi-directional FPN for small drone object detection
摘要
UAV surveillance systems require high-performance computing (HPC) to process multi-stream imagery in real time. Small object detection in UAV imagery faces significant challenges: sparse pixels, limited features, complex backgrounds, and strict latency requirements (sub-100 ms). We propose MD-DRIFPN, a framework based on YOLOv11s, optimized for real-time small-object detection. The framework includes three key modules: DRIB expands receptive fields through multi-scale dilated convolutions and dual attention; MD-SFPN performs efficient multi-scale feature fusion; and LSDH optimizes detection accuracy via parameter sharing. We also introduce the Focaler-IoU loss function to improve bounding box localization. Experiments on VisDrone datasets show MD-DRIFPN improves baseline performance by 40.9% (AP