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MDCF-YOLO: a lightweight multi-scale context-aware and feature fusion network for small object detection in remote sensing images

Aug 2026 · Cluster Computing · Vol 29 · 1 citation · 44 references

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A lightweight object detection framework, termed MDCF-YOLO, which achieves a superior accuracy-efficiency trade-off compared to state-of-the-art lightweight object detectors and exhibits similarly competitive performance on the AI-TOD dataset, further validating its effectiveness and generalization capability in UAV remote sensing scenarios.

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