YOLO-DAA: Directional Area Attention for Lightweight Tiny Object Detection in Maritime UAV Imagery

Tiny object detection in maritime Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) imagery remains challenging due to low-resolution targets, dynamic lighting, and vast water backgrounds that obscure fine spatial cues. This study introduces You Only Look Once – Directional Area Attention (YOLO-DAA), a lightweight yet...

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Published in:	Drones
Main Authors:	Kuan-Chou Chen, Vinay Malligere Shivanna, Jiun-In Guo
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2026-04-01
Subjects:	directional attention lightweight detection maritime UAV spatial reconstruction tiny object detection YOLO architecture
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/10/4/283