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TDSF-NET: a real-time target-driven sparse fusion network for RGB-infrared small object detection

Sep 2026 · Journal of Real-Time Image Processing · Vol 23 · 0 citations · 47 references

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This paper proposes TDSF-Net, a target-driven sparse fusion network for real-time RGB-infrared weak small object detection, which follows an enhance-then-fuse paradigm and achieves state-of-the-art performance on the UAV-based DroneVehicle dataset.

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