CIFI-YOLO: A SWaP-Aware Object Detector for UAV Optical Sensors via Cross-Iterative Fusion and Gated Attention
Operating optical sensors on uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) requires balancing high precision and severe Size Weight and Power constraints of edge hardware. Traditional detection algorithms often fail in high altitudes because small targets hide in complex ground clutter and sensor noise. CIFI-YOLO is presented as a h...