RF-DETR
RF-DETR
Also known as: Roboflow DETR
RF-DETR is Roboflow's 2025 transformer-based detector that beats YOLO11 by 2-4 mAP on COCO at the same parameter budget while staying real-time on a Jetson Orin (~25 fps at 640 px on AGX). Built on DINOv2 features and a streamlined DETR head, it sidesteps the anchor heuristics and NMS step…
Definition
RF-DETR is Roboflow's 2025 transformer-based detector that beats YOLO11 by 2-4 mAP on COCO at the same parameter budget while staying real-time on a Jetson Orin (~25 fps at 640 px on AGX). Built on DINOv2 features and a streamlined DETR head, it sidesteps the anchor heuristics and NMS step that hurt YOLO precision in dense scenes. FI Tech uses RF-DETR-Base for crowded construction-site PPE detection where 30+ workers in a frame overlap heavily — the global attention head separates instances better than CNN-based YOLO variants. License is Apache 2.0; weights are openly distributed.
