FLS-YOLO: a multi-scale subsurface defect detection network via heterogeneous grouping and spatial reconstruction
摘要
Subsurface defect detection in Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) imagery is challenged by strong background clutter and multi-scale hyperbolic signatures. We propose FLS-YOLO, a lightweight detection framework with task-specific refinements to existing neural operators. Rather than directly stacking modules, we modify the forward computations of PConv, LWGA, and SCConv to inject GPR-oriented inductive biases. Specifically, channel partitioning is redefined using directional energy statistics, attention weights are augmented with a vertical gradient bias to model electromagnetic anisotropy, and saliency estimation incorporates second-order curvature priors to improve hyperbolic boundary reconstruction. Experiments on RTSTdataset show that FLS-YOLO achieves 0.6958 mAP@0.5 at 164 FPS with 2.41M parameters, yielding a better accuracy–efficiency trade-off for large-scale subsurface inspection.