The design of a building facade pollutant detection algorithm based on multi-scale context enhancement and model lightweight improvement for YOLO

To address the high complexity, poor real-time performance, and the prevalence of false positives and false negatives in current algorithms for detecting small-target pollutants on UAV-based building facades, this study proposes SDS-YOLOv8. The spatial pyramid pooling structure in the backbone is enhanced to improve feature representation. DySample is incorporated into the neck to adaptively adjust sampling points based on the image feature distribution. Additionally, the SCAM module is introduced to improve the memory of important information, and the loss function is further optimized. Experimental results demonstrate that the accuracy of the proposed algorithm is significantly improved, exhibiting strong generalization capability.©2025 The Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences. Publishing Services by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).