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LR-Net: Lossless Feature Fusion and Revised SIoU for Small Object Detection

Gang Li, Ru Wang, Yang Zhang, Chuanyun Xu, Xinyu Fan, Zheng Zhou, Pengfei Lv, Zihan Ruan

Computers, Materials & Continua· Volume 85· Issue 2

Abstract

Currently, challenges such as small object size and occlusion lead to a lack of accuracy and robustness in small object detection. Since small objects occupy only a few pixels in an image, the extracted features are limited, ... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Tech Science Press
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