A detection-oriented cross-scale fusion YOLOv11 for UAV object detection in hazy environments
摘要
UAV object detection under hazy conditions is challenging because atmospheric scattering reduces image contrast, weakens object boundaries, and suppresses fine-grained details that are important for small-object recognition. To address these issues, this paper proposes GRFW-YOLOv11, a YOLOv11-based detection framework with a moderate model size for hazy UAV scenes. The proposed framework incorporates detection-oriented haze-interference suppression, frequency–spatial feature recalibration, content-aware cross-scale feature fusion, and localization-oriented regression optimization. These components are designed to improve the representation and localization of small or degraded targets under haze-related visual degradation. Experiments are conducted on VisDrone2019, Foggy VisDrone2019, RTTS, and HazyDet. On VisDrone2019, GRFW-YOLOv11n achieves 41.3%