Yulin Li

Mr. Yulin Li


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Academic Career Length

1Year (2026-Present)

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24 July 2026 in Applied Sciences
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YHYucan Huang
Yucan Huang
RWRijun Wang
Rijun Wang
CYCHUNHUI Yang
CHUNHUI Yang
XTXianglong Teng
Xianglong Teng
YLYulin Li
Yulin Li
PSPeng Sun
Peng Sun
Detecting small unauthorized UAVs against complex backgrounds is challenging: targets can be just a few pixels wide, background clutter is pervasive, and the detection system must run on resource-constrained edge hardware. This paper presents a lightweight detector built on YOLOv11 that jointly addresses background suppression and edge-deployment efficiency. A serial channel-spatial attention module is embedded into the backbone to sharpen target features and suppress interference. DySample preserves edge details during resolution recovery, and the detection head is restructured by adding a high-resolution P2 branch while removing the large-object P5 head, shifting the focus to small targets without inflating the model. The WIoU v3 loss function stabilizes training by automatically down-weighting low-quality samples. On the DUT Anti-UAV dataset, the proposed model obtains 92.2% mAP@0.5 and 61.5% mAP@0.5:0.95 with only 2.11 M parameters, a reduction of 18.2% relative to the YOLOv11n baseline. Its ability to generalize across different scenarios is verified by cross-dataset evaluation on Det-Fly and LRDDv2. Deployed on an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super with TensorRT FP16 optimization, the system achieves 37 end-to-end FPS. These findings demonstrate that the presented method significantly improves small-target detection in complex backgrounds while maintaining a lightweight design suitable for real-time edge deployment.