How to improve the detection quality of small target pedestrians in the overhead view scenes of industrial crane operations.

[KevinForever]

As shown in the figure, I am seeking help on how to improve the detection quality of small target pedestrians in the overhead view scenes of industrial crane operations.

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[glenn-jocher]

Great use case—tiny overhead pedestrians benefit most from scale and supervision: train YOLO11 on your crane-view data at higher resolution, use a P2-enabled model (adds a stride‑4 head) to boost small‑object recall, oversample small‑person crops and strengthen augmentations, then tile large frames at inference and optionally stabilize with Track (ByteTrack/StrongSORT); see the YOLO11 models overview and Track mode docs for setup: https://docs.ultralytics.com/models/yolo11/ and https://docs.ultralytics.com/modes/track/.