Enhancing Real-Time Detection Transformer (RT-DETR) for Handgun Detection on Nvidia Jetson

Recent studies have highlighted the rise in violence and criminal activities primarily involving firearms. In response to the growing demand for effective firearm detec- tion systems in public safety applications, this paper explores advancements in real- time object detection using Transformer-bas...

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Main Authors: Luis Bustamante, Juan C. Gutiérrez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centro Latinoamericano de Estudios en Informática 2025-05-01
Series:CLEI Electronic Journal
Online Access:https://clei.org/cleiej/index.php/cleiej/article/view/802
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Summary:Recent studies have highlighted the rise in violence and criminal activities primarily involving firearms. In response to the growing demand for effective firearm detec- tion systems in public safety applications, this paper explores advancements in real- time object detection using Transformer-based models. Building on the RT-DETR architecture and its latest version, RT-DETR v2, we introduce improvements such as the Bidirectional Feature Pyramid Network (BiFPN) for enhanced small object de- tection and dynamic batch processing to maximize computational efficiency and re- source utilization on edge devices like the Nvidia Jetson AGX Xavier for efficient real- time deployment. We also compare the model with state-of-the-art alternatives such as YOLOv10, demonstrating the superiority of Transformer models in terms of accu- racy and performance. For the comparative study, we used a benchmark proposing three datasets with challenging conditions. Code and trained models are available at https://github.com/labt1/GunDetection-RTDETR.
ISSN:0717-5000