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D-FINE-seg: Object Detection and Instance Segmentation Framework with multi-backend deployment

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-02-27 v1

Abstract

Transformer-based real-time object detectors achieve strong accuracy-latency trade-offs, and D-FINE is among the top-performing recent architectures. However, real-time instance segmentation with transformers is still less common. We present D-FINE-seg, an instance segmentation extension of D-FINE that adds: a lightweight mask head, segmentation-aware training, including box cropped BCE and dice mask losses, auxiliary and denoising mask supervision, and adapted Hungarian matching cost. On the TACO dataset, D-FINE-seg improves F1-score over Ultralytics YOLO26 under a unified TensorRT FP16 end-to-end benchmarking protocol, while maintaining competitive latency. Second contribution is an end-to-end pipeline for training, exporting, and optimized inference across ONNX, TensorRT, OpenVINO for both object detection and instance segmentation tasks. This framework is released as open-source under the Apache-2.0 license. GitHub repository - https://github.com/ArgoHA/D-FINE-seg.

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@article{arxiv.2602.23043,
  title  = {D-FINE-seg: Object Detection and Instance Segmentation Framework with multi-backend deployment},
  author = {Argo Saakyan and Dmitry Solntsev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.23043},
  year   = {2026}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures, 5 tables

R2 v1 2026-07-01T10:53:57.827Z