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To solve these problems, we propose a new feature pyramid network based on Faster RCNN-FPN. It can fuse features across levels and directions to improve small object detection and localization, and increase object detection precision. The method has proven its effectiveness through cross-validation experiments. On a tire crown bubble defect dataset, the mAP [0.5:0.95] increased by 2.08% and the AP0.5 increased by 2.4% over the original network. 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