rf-detr-medium
by Roboflow
Balanced real-time detection transformer for object metadata pipelines
Roboflow/rf-detr-mediummixpeek://image_extractor@v1/roboflow_rf_detr_medium_v1Overview
RF-DETR Medium is the balanced checkpoint in Roboflow's real-time detection transformer family. It keeps the DETR-style end-to-end detection formulation while reducing the footprint compared with the Large model.
On Mixpeek, RF-DETR Medium is a practical default for high-volume video and image pipelines where agents need object metadata for filtering, counting, and follow-up visual inspection without paying for the largest detector on every frame.
Architecture
Detection transformer with a ViT-style backbone, multi-scale projection, deformable cross-attention decoder, and DETR-style object queries. The medium checkpoint targets the throughput-quality middle ground.
Mixpeek SDK Integration
// No extractor parameter takes a Hugging Face model id (checked against
// GET /v1/discovery/extractors, which returns 13), so rf-detr-medium runs
// on your side and the output is upserted through POST
// /v1/namespaces/{namespace_id}/documents/upsert. On Enterprise the other
// path is to upload the weights instead: POST /v1/namespaces/{id}/models
// accepts the huggingface format and a custom plugin loads them.
const res = await fetch(
"https://api.mixpeek.com/v1/namespaces/ns_your_namespace/documents/upsert",
{
method: "POST",
headers: {
Authorization: "Bearer API_KEY",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({
collection_id: "col_your_collection",
documents: [
{
document_id: "asset-00412",
// Boxes, masks, depth maps and anomaly scores are structured
// results, not vectors. They go in payload and are reachable
// through pre_filters on a retriever, not through similarity.
payload: {
detections: modelOutput,
source_key: "archive/2026/asset-00412",
},
},
],
}),
},
);
// No managed alternative for an open label set. Two extractors do emit a
// bbox, for the one thing each detects: document_graph_extractor@v1 per
// layout block, face_identity_extractor@v1 per face. Nothing ships that
// returns masks, depth maps or anomaly scores.Capabilities
- COCO-style object detection
- Transformer-based boxes without anchors
- Balanced latency and quality for production frame pipelines
- Apache 2.0 license
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Research Paper
RF-DETR Medium
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