PRepDETR: a real-time detection transformer with partial convolutions and efficient cross-scale feature fusion
摘要
Real-time object detection is widely applied in fields such as autonomous driving and intelligent surveillance. However, it often faces a trade-off between computational efficiency and detection accuracy. Although Transformer-based end-to-end detection frameworks offer advantages in global modeling and optimization, their high computational costs and insufficient feature fusion limit both accuracy and real-time performance. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a novel object detection framework, PRepDETR, built upon the RT-DETR architecture. It introduces a lightweight partial convolution module to reduce redundant computations in the backbone. Additionally, a cross-scale feature fusion module, PRepGFPN, is developed by integrating partial convolution and reparameterization strategies, effectively enhancing inter-layer feature interaction. Furthermore, we present a novel bounding box regression loss function, Focaler-GIoU, which dynamically focuses on samples of varying difficulty, alleviates sample weighting imbalance, and improves the model’s generalization capability. Experimental results demonstrate that PRepDETR significantly enhances detection performance while maintaining real-time capability, achieving improvements of 2.4%/2.6% (mAP