Review
Open access
Aug 2026
Single-stage object detection in the deep learning era: a critical survey of CNN-, transformer-, and hybrid architectures
This survey provides a critical review of single-stage detectors developed between 2016 and 2026, structured around three architectural axes: the convolutional family, the Transformer family, and hybrid CNN–Transformer designs.
Malik Haris, Guo-Qiang Zhang, Li-Ming Li et al.
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