MDF-YOLO: A Hölder-Based Regularity-Guided Multi-Domain Fusion Detection Model for Indoor Objects
Open Access
- 18 October 2025
- journal article
- research article
- Published by MDPI AG in Fractal and Fractional
- Vol. 9 (10) , 673
Abstract
With the rise of embodied agents and indoor service robots, object detection has become a critical component supporting semantic mapping, path planning, and human–robot interaction. However, indoor scenes often face challenges such as severe occlusion, large-scale variations, small and densely packed objects, and complex textures, making existing methods struggle in terms of both robustness and accuracy. This paper proposes MDF-YOLO, a multi-domain fusion detection framework based on Hölder regularity guidance. In the backbone, neck, and feature recovery stages, the framework introduces the CrossGrid Memory Block, Hölder-Based Regularity Guidance–Hierarchical Context Aggregation module, and Frequency-Guided Residual Block, achieving complementary feature modeling across the state space, spatial domain, and frequency domain. In particular, the HG-HCA module uses the Hölder regularity map as a guiding signal to balance the dynamic equilibrium between the macro and micro paths, thus achieving adaptive coordination between global consistency and local discriminability. Experimental results show that MDF-YOLO significantly outperforms mainstream detectors in metrics such as mAP@0.5, mAP@0.75, and mAP@0.5:0.95, achieving values of 0.7158, 0.6117, and 0.5814, respectively, while maintaining near real-time inference efficiency in terms of FPS and latency. Ablation studies further validate the independent and synergistic contributions of CGMB, HG-HCA, and FGRB in improving small-object detection, occlusion handling, and cross-scale robustness. This study demonstrates the potential of Hölder regularity and multi-domain fusion modeling in object detection, offering new insights for efficient visual modeling in complex indoor environments.Keywords
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