instance-segmentation

CNN vs Transformer, quantized: YOLO26-seg and RF-DETR-Seg race for instance masks on an Intel iGPU

Two opposite small segmentation models, a 2026-era CNN and a DETR transformer, both quantized to INT8 with NNCF and run on a laptop Intel iGPU. YOLO26-seg's forward pass is ~7.4× faster; RF-DETR-Seg keeps its masks more faithful under INT8 on the CPU, and its fully-quantized mask head breaks on the iGPU. The whole shootout, numbers first.