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    • Figure 1. 

      Overall flow of the proposed algorithm.

    • Figure 2. 

      PCE module.

    • Figure 3. 

      MSCSA module.

    • Figure 4. 

      AGU module.

    • Figure 5. 

      CSDA module.

    • Figure 6. 

      Target category distribution and size diagram.

    • Figure 7. 

      Comparative experimental chart.

    • Figure 8. 

      Visualization results.

    • ModuleTargeted problemKey ideaPositionUnique role
      PCESmall objects/fine-grained featuresParallel partial conv + linear fusionBackboneEnhance local details
      MSCSAScale variationMulti-scale conv + self-attentionEncoderModel cross-scale context
      AGUMisaligned upsamplingDynamic sampling gridFusion stageAchieve precise alignment
      CSDARedundant featuresChannel + spatial attentionFusion stageSuppress redundant information

      Table 1. 

      Functional comparison of proposed modules.

    • ParametersSettings
      Epochs300
      Batch16
      Imgsz640
      Workers4
      OptimizerAdamW[38]
      Lr00.0001

      Table 2. 

      Setting table of experimental environment parameters.

    • Modules P R mAP0.5 mAP0.5:0.95 Params GFLOPs FPS
      YOLOv8[23] 0.701 0.518 0.56 0.357 3,006,233 8.1 13.14
      YOLOv9[24] 0.743 0.567 0.613 0.399 7,168,249 26.7 10.77
      YOLOv10s[25] 0.734 0.567 0.611 0.394 8,037,282 24.5 11.96
      YOLOv11[39] 0.659 0.521 0.55 0.35 2,582,737 6.3 12.96
      DETR[8] – – 0.604 0.362 36,739,785 100.94 11.85
      RT-DETR[15] 0.754 0.612 0.659 0.419 19,875,612 56.9 22.59
      AeroRTD (ours) 0.758 0.635 0.681 0.43 15,762,572 50.9 23.89
      Bold values represent the best-performing results for the corresponding metrics.

      Table 3. 

      Comparison parameter table.

    • Modules mAP0.5 (val) mAP0.5:0.95 (val) mAP0.5 (test) mAP0.5:0.95 (test)
      YOLOv8s[23] 0.411 0.248 0.333 0.193
      YOLOv11s[39] 0.408 0.245 0.328 0.192
      RT-DETR[15] 0.474 0.281 0.369 0.229
      AeroRTD 0.479 0.292 0.373 0.232

      Table 4. 

      Performance comparison on VisDrone2019 dataset.

    • Modules P R mAP0.5 mAP0.5:0.95 Params GFLOPs FPS
      RT-DETR (baseline) 0.754 0.612 0.659 0.419 19,875,612 56.9 22.59
      Baseline + A 0.757 0.624 0.669 0.429 15,405,804 46.2 25.47
      Baseline + A + B 0.76 0.624 0.675 0.424 15,726,988 50.7 23.03
      Baseline + A + B + C 0.758 0.635 0.681 0.43 15,762,572 50.9 23.89

      Table 5. 

      Table of ablation experiments.