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For example, autonomous vehicles need to use the object detection results to navigate and avoid obstacles. In this paper, we propose a multi-scale MobileNeck module and an algorithm to improve the performance of an object detection model by outputting a series of Gaussian parameters. These Gaussian parameters can be used to predict both the locations of detected objects and the localization confidences. Based on the above two methods, a new confidence-aware Mobile Detection (MobileDet) model is proposed. The MobileNeck module and loss function are easy to conduct and integrate with Generalized-IoU (GIoU) metrics with slight changes in the code. We test the proposed model on the KITTI and VOC datasets. 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