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One of the core technologies is the object detection (OD) of RSI signals (RSISs). The majority of existing OD algorithms only consider medium and large objects, regardless of small-object detection, resulting in an unsatisfactory performance in detection precision and the miss rate of small objects. To boost the overall OD performance of RSISs, an improved detection framework, I-YOLO-V5, was proposed for OD in high-altitude RSISs. Firstly, the idea of a residual network is employed to construct a new residual unit to achieve the purpose of improving the network feature extraction. Then, to avoid the gradient fading of the network, densely connected networks are integrated into the structure of the algorithm. Meanwhile, a fourth detection layer is employed in the algorithm structure in order to reduce the deficiency of small-object detection in RSISs in complex environments, and its effectiveness is verified. 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