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rf-detr
RF-DETR is a real-time object detection and segmentation model architecture developed by Roboflow, SOTA on COCO, designed for fine-tuning. [ICLR 2026]
Project last updated:08/25/26
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RF-DETR pairs a DINOv2 backbone with a real-time transformer head, so one model handles object detection, instance segmentation, and keypoint detection through the same API. Roboflow built it to be fine-tuned rather than used out of the box, and the accuracy-versus-latency results on COCO make it a practical alternative to the older YOLO-style detectors. The Apache-2.0 weights and the rfdetr package let you retrain on your own data, whether that means counting parts on a production line or finding objects in satellite and medical imagery. Fine-tuning notebooks and a Hugging Face demo lower the barrier for teams who have not worked with DETR-style architectures before. If your stack is built around vision rather than LLMs, this one is worth a closer look.
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