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Main Authors: Yehuala, Tinsae, Cheng, Hao, Lehtola, Ville
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10269
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author Yehuala, Tinsae
Cheng, Hao
Lehtola, Ville
author_facet Yehuala, Tinsae
Cheng, Hao
Lehtola, Ville
contents Maritime object detection is critical for the safe navigation of unmanned surface vessels (USVs), requiring accurate recognition of obstacles from small buoys to large vessels. Real-time detection is challenging due to long distances, small object sizes, large-scale variations, edge computing limitations, and the high memory demands of high-resolution imagery. Existing solutions, such as downsampling or image splitting, often reduce accuracy or require additional processing, while memory-efficient models typically handle only limited resolutions. To overcome these limitations, we leverage Vision Mamba (ViM) backbones, which build on State Space Models (SSMs) to capture long-range dependencies while scaling linearly with sequence length. Images are tokenized into sequences for efficient high-resolution processing. For further computational efficiency, we design a tailored Feature Pyramid Network with successive downsampling and SSM layers, as well as token pruning to reduce unnecessary computation on background regions. Compared to state-of-the-art methods like RT-DETR with ResNet50 backbone, our approach achieves a better balance between performance and computational efficiency in maritime object detection.
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spellingShingle Increasing the Efficiency of DETR for Maritime High-Resolution Images
Yehuala, Tinsae
Cheng, Hao
Lehtola, Ville
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
Maritime object detection is critical for the safe navigation of unmanned surface vessels (USVs), requiring accurate recognition of obstacles from small buoys to large vessels. Real-time detection is challenging due to long distances, small object sizes, large-scale variations, edge computing limitations, and the high memory demands of high-resolution imagery. Existing solutions, such as downsampling or image splitting, often reduce accuracy or require additional processing, while memory-efficient models typically handle only limited resolutions. To overcome these limitations, we leverage Vision Mamba (ViM) backbones, which build on State Space Models (SSMs) to capture long-range dependencies while scaling linearly with sequence length. Images are tokenized into sequences for efficient high-resolution processing. For further computational efficiency, we design a tailored Feature Pyramid Network with successive downsampling and SSM layers, as well as token pruning to reduce unnecessary computation on background regions. Compared to state-of-the-art methods like RT-DETR with ResNet50 backbone, our approach achieves a better balance between performance and computational efficiency in maritime object detection.
title Increasing the Efficiency of DETR for Maritime High-Resolution Images
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10269