# D-FINE-seg: Object Detection and Instance Segmentation Framework with multi-backend deployment

Source: [D-FINE-seg: Object Detection and Instance Segmentation Framework with multi-backend deployment](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69a125132d603e6de3e3c53c>)

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Data updated: 2026-02-28T05:00:04.461Z

Authors: Argo Saakyan, Dmitry Solntsev

Published: 2026-02-26T14:26:49.000Z

## Abstract

Transformer-based real-time object detectors achieve strong accuracy-latency trade-offs, and D-FINE is among the top-performing recent architectures. However, real-time instance segmentation with transformers is still less common. We present D-FINE-seg, an instance segmentation extension of D-FINE that adds: a lightweight mask head, segmentation-aware training, including box cropped BCE and dice mask losses, auxiliary and denoising mask supervision, and adapted Hungarian matching cost. On the TACO dataset, D-FINE-seg improves F1-score over Ultralytics YOLO26 under a unified TensorRT FP16 end-to-end benchmarking protocol, while maintaining competitive latency. Second contribution is an end-to-end pipeline for training, exporting, and optimized inference across ONNX, TensorRT, OpenVINO for both object detection and instance segmentation tasks. This framework is released as open-source under the Apache-2.0 license. GitHub repository - https://github.com/ArgoHA/D-FINE-seg.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23043>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.23043.pdf>)
