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The C3K2-lighter module is constructed by replacing the Bottleneck in the C3K2 module with the FasterNet Block, which significantly enhances feature extraction for long-distance pedestrians in dense scenes. In addition, it incorporates the Triplet Attention Module to establish correlations between local features and the global context, thereby effectively mitigating omission problems caused by occlusion. The Variable Focus Loss Function (VFL) is additionally introduced to optimize target classification by quantifying the variance in features between the predicted frame and the ground-truth frame. 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