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SMDS-Net: aerial object detection method based on adaptive multi-scale feature fusion and semantically guided detail preservation

Sep 2026 · Journal of Supercomputing · Vol 82 · 0 citations · 72 references

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Experimental results on public benchmark datasets demonstrate that the proposed SMDS-Net achieves highly competitive detection accuracy while significantly reducing the number of model parameters and theoretical computational complexity.

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