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A robust small-object detection model for UAV aerial imagery under complex background clutter

Yong He ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong He, Renfeng Xiao

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: 003356@csust.edu.cn

Affiliation College of Artificial Intelligence, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, China

https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4850-0338

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Renfeng Xiao ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong He, Renfeng Xiao

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation College of Artificial Intelligence, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, China
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Yifan Tang,

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation College of Artificial Intelligence, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, China
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Yufan Pang

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software

Affiliation College of Artificial Intelligence, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, China
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A robust small-object detection model for UAV aerial imagery under complex background clutter

Yong He,
Renfeng Xiao,
Yifan Tang,
Yufan Pang

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Published: August 4, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0352244

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