EBO-YOLO: small object detection from drone overhead views based on semantic refinement and detail acquisition
摘要
Existing methods, such as YOLOv8, face limitations in drone overhead views, including low accuracy for small objects, poor multi-scale adaptability, severe background interference, and high computational costs, which make them unsuitable for resource-constrained drones. To address these issues, this paper introduces the EBO-YOLO model for small object detection in such scenarios. Key improvements include: (1) Adding a small object detection layer to enhance semantic information and detection accuracy; (2) Replacing the original backbone with the EE network module (which fuses EfficientNetV1 and EMA attention) to reduce parameters and computational cost while maintaining sensitivity to small objects; (3) Integrating the BiFormer attention mechanism to improve multi-scale feature fusion and localization accuracy. Experiments on the VisDrone2019 Validation set show that the model uses 2.5