UHR-DETR: Efficient End-to-End Small Object Detection for Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21435v1
• Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:51:24 GMT
• Title: UHR-DETR: Efficient End-to-End Small Object Detection for Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery
• Abstract summary: Ultra-High-Resolution (UHR) imagery has become essential for modern remote sensing, offering unprecedented spatial coverage.<n>We propose UHR-DETR, an efficient end-to-end transformer-based detector designed for UHR imagery.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Ultra-High-Resolution (UHR) imagery has become essential for modern remote sensing, offering unprecedented spatial coverage. However, detecting small objects in such vast scenes presents a critical dilemma: retaining the original resolution for small objects causes prohibitive memory bottlenecks. Conversely, conventional compromises like image downsampling or patch cropping either erase small objects or destroy context. To break this dilemma, we propose UHR-DETR, an efficient end-to-end transformer-based detector designed for UHR imagery. First, we introduce a Coverage-Maximizing Sparse Encoder that dynamically allocates finite computational resources to informative high-resolution regions, ensuring maximum object coverage with minimal spatial redundancy. Second, we design a Global-Local Decoupled Decoder. By integrating macroscopic scene awareness with microscopic object details, this module resolves semantic ambiguities and prevents scene fragmentation. Extensive experiments on the UHR imagery datasets (e.g., STAR and SODA-A) demonstrate the superiority of UHR-DETR under strict hardware constraints (e.g., a single 24GB RTX 3090). It achieves a 2.8\% mAP improvement while delivering a 10$\times$ inference speedup compared to standard sliding-window baselines on the STAR dataset. Our codes and models will be available at https://github.com/Li-JingFang/UHR-DETR.

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