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To enhance the discriminability and robustness of the model extraction features and improve the detector\u2019s detection performance for small objects, we propose two modules in this work. First, we propose a receptive field enhancement method, referred to as adaptive receptive field fusion (ARFF). It enhances the model\u2019s feature representation ability by adaptively learning the fusion weights of different receptive field branches in the receptive field module. Then, we propose an enhanced up-sampling (EU) module to reduce the information loss caused by up-sampling on the feature map. Finally, we assemble ARFF and EU modules on top of YOLO v3 to build a real-time, high-precision and lightweight object detection system referred to as the ARFF-EU network. We achieve a state-of-the-art speed and accuracy trade-off on both the Pascal VOC and MS COCO data sets, reporting 83.6% AP at 37.5 FPS and 42.5% AP at 33.7 FPS, respectively. 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