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calls RT-DETR “choose it when you want an actively maintained real-time DETR detector with official code and detection-only COCO models.”
RF-DETR is a real-time object detection and segmentation model architecture developed by Roboflow, SOTA on COCO, designed for fine-tuning. [ICLR 2026]
calls RT-DETR “Choose it for an actively maintained NMS-free transformer detector under Apache-2.0, but with closed vocabularies only.”
[CVPR 2024] Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Object Detection