Open-vocabulary detector that draws boxes around objects named in a free-text prompt, without a fixed class list.
ustc-community/dfine-small-coco
Indexed from Hugging FaceLinked to its home on Hugging Face. FrontierOS indexes it; nothing is hosted or mirrored here.ModelObject detection10M paramsEst. Single-board computerEstimated minimum compute for inference: Raspberry Pi 5 class CPU. Not a benchmark.Apache 2.0Mobile baseDroneSingle arm
About
Small real-time DETR-style detector for the 80 COCO classes that refines box edges as distributions for tighter localization.
Why it matters for physical AI
A permissively licensed, transformer-native alternative to YOLO for fast closed-set detection on low-power boards.
Summary written by FrontierOS in our own words. The upstream card and license govern use. Metadata checked 27 Sep 2026. Read the full card on Hugging Face
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What actually runs well on a Raspberry Pi 5?
Our compute tiers are estimates based on parameter counts. Real numbers beat estimates.
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