Table 3 Comparative experimental results of incorporating different attention mechanisms into the same convolutional module.

From: LPAE-YOLOv8: lightweight aerial small object detection via LSE-Head and adaptive attention

Models

mAP(0.5)(%)

mAP(0.5:0.95)(%)

The number of model parameters (×106)

GFLOPs (×109)

YOLOv8-C(AA)

33.5%

19.5%

3.02

9.8

YOLOv8-C(CA)

32.3%

18.9%

3.02

9.8

YOLOv8-C(SA)

32.6%

19.0%

3.02

9.8

YOLOv8-C(GC)

32.2%

18.9%

3.02

9.8