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DETR vs Grounding DINO

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Object Detection · verified 13 Aug 2026

DETRMetacurrent
IGrounding DINOIDEA Researchcurrent
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SpecificationDETRGrounding DINO
SummaryThe paper that removed anchors and NMS.Detects whatever you describe in words.
COCO mAP~44~52 zero-shot
SpeedLowModerate
LicenceApache 2.0Apache 2.0
FamilyTransformer, set predictionOpen vocabulary
Open vocabularyNoYes
Released20202023
CategoryObject DetectionObject Detection
OfficialMeta ↗IDEA Research ↗

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DETR

  • Reframed detection as set prediction
  • Slow to train, and every transformer detector descends from it

Best for understanding where RF-DETR came from.

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Grounding DINO

  • Text prompt in, boxes out
  • Fine-tuning still beats it on specialised objects

Best for classes you have no data for.

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