RT-HALN: a lightweight network for hand acupoint localization using dual-branch collaborative fusion and progressive feature enhancement
摘要
To address the limitations of traditional acupoint localization methods—notably high subjectivity and poor consistency—this research proposes RT-HALN, a high-precision lightweight network for hand acupoint localization, designed to automate and standardize the localization process. This model employs a dual-stream parallel fusion Stem architecture (DPF-Stem) to enhance the robustness of acupoint localization in complex backgrounds. Additionally, it incorporates efficient spatial pyramid pooling (Efficient-SPP) to tackle issues related to scale feature segmentation and computational redundancy in acupoint detail information. Furthermore, a progressive feature enhancement module (CBR-Block) is introduced to improve the accuracy of acupoint localization. The experimental results demonstrated that the RT-HALN model achieved an AP95 of 94.74% on the hand acupoint dataset, while reducing model computation and parameter count by 0.024G and 0.444 M, respectively. On the cross-pose and cross-scene Hand Keypoints Dataset, both AP95 and AR95 improved by 1.16% and 1.15%, respectively, confirming the real-time capabilities and generalization performance of the RT-HALN model. Additionally, the RT-HALN network is designed for deployment on edge devices to meet real-time detection requirements, achieving a balance between positioning accuracy and detection speed while maintaining a lightweight structure.