Xinyu Zhang

LW-DETR, a Light-Weight DEtection TRansformer model, is designed to be a real-time object detection alternative that outperforms conventional convolutional (YOLO-style) and earlier transformer-based (DETR) methods in terms of speed and accuracy trade-off. It was introduced in the paper LW-DETR: A Transformer Replacement to YOLO for Real-Time Detection by Chen et al. and first released in this repository. Disclaimer: This model was originally contributed by stevenbucaille in transformers. LW-DETR is an end-to-end object detection model that uses a Vision Transformer (ViT) backbone as its encoder, a simple convolutional projector, and a shallow DETR decoder. The core philosophy is to leverage…