GAF-Det: gated adaptive fusion detector for lightweight real-time object detection
摘要
Real-time object detection in continuously streaming image and video data demands that models remain both highly accurate and computationally frugal, yet existing lightweight detectors either sacrifice multi-scale robustness by narrowing network width or incur unnecessary overhead through scene-agnostic feature fusion strategies. To address these limitations, we propose Gated Adaptive Fusion Detector (GAF-Det), a single-stage detector whose neck replaces fixed-weight concatenation with a Lightweight Gated Feature Fusion (LGFF) module that dynamically computes per-channel fusion weights conditioned on both the semantic and spatial streams, and whose backbone employs a Depthwise Separable Downsampling (DSDown) block that combines a learnable depthwise separable branch with a max-pooling branch to preserve fine-grained spatial detail at roughly 88% fewer parameters than standard strided convolution in the depthwise separable branch. Integrated with a three-head PAFPN architecture and an InnerShape-IoU regression loss, GAF-Det achieves 56.1% AP