Lightweight Multi-Frame Integration for Robust YOLO Object Detection in Videos

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20550v1
• Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:49:07 GMT
• Title: Lightweight Multi-Frame Integration for Robust YOLO Object Detection in Videos
• Authors: Yitong Quan, Benjamin Kiefer, Martin Messmer, Andreas Zell,
• Abstract summary: We propose a highly effective strategy for multi-frame video object detection.<n>Our method improves robustness, especially for lightweight models.<n>We contribute the BOAT360 benchmark dataset to support future research in multi-frame video object detection in challenging real-world scenarios.
• Score: 11.532574301455854
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Modern image-based object detection models, such as YOLOv7, primarily process individual frames independently, thus ignoring valuable temporal context naturally present in videos. Meanwhile, existing video-based detection methods often introduce complex temporal modules, significantly increasing model size and computational complexity. In practical applications such as surveillance and autonomous driving, transient challenges including motion blur, occlusions, and abrupt appearance changes can severely degrade single-frame detection performance. To address these issues, we propose a straightforward yet highly effective strategy: stacking multiple consecutive frames as input to a YOLO-based detector while supervising only the output corresponding to a single target frame. This approach leverages temporal information with minimal modifications to existing architectures, preserving simplicity, computational efficiency, and real-time inference capability. Extensive experiments on the challenging MOT20Det and our BOAT360 datasets demonstrate that our method improves detection robustness, especially for lightweight models, effectively narrowing the gap between compact and heavy detection networks. Additionally, we contribute the BOAT360 benchmark dataset, comprising annotated fisheye video sequences captured from a boat, to support future research in multi-frame video object detection in challenging real-world scenarios.

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