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Multimodal UAV Object Detection Using a YOLOv10-Transformer Hybrid Architecture for Balancing Precision and Speed

Aug 2026 · Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing · Vol 54, pp. 4311 - 4328 · 0 citations · 22 references

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A global–local Transformer head, alternating depthwise convolutions with sparse self-attention, restores the small-target recall normally lost in attention-heavy designs, while CycleGAN-based cross-modal synthesis and an improved NMS-Free pipeline complete the training and inference path.

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