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Railway fastener defect detection using RFD-DETR: A lightweight real-time transformer-based approach

Huixiang Zhou,

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliation School of Information and Software Engineering, East China JiaoTong University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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Yuhao Liu ,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: sinclair335648@gmail.com

Affiliation School of Information and Software Engineering, East China JiaoTong University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3004-3557

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Jian Wang

Roles Software

Affiliation School of Information and Software Engineering, East China JiaoTong University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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Railway fastener defect detection using RFD-DETR: A lightweight real-time transformer-based approach

Huixiang Zhou,
Yuhao Liu,
Jian Wang

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Published: November 10, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0331513

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