​Real-time object detection lies at the heart of any system that must interpret visual data efficiently, from video analytics pipelines to autonomous robotics. Detector architectures for such tasks need to deliver both high throughput and accuracy in order to excel.In our own pipelines, we phased out older CNN-based detectors in favor of D-Fine, a more recent model that is part of the DEtection Transformer (DETR) family. Transformer-based detectors have matured quickly, and D-Fine in particular ...