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Improving Object Localization With Fitness NMS and Bounded IoU Loss

CVPR 2018 · Detection and segmentation › CNN features · approach: Box regression and loss design · 241 citations (OpenAlex)

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What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Train with matching IoU 0.7 instead of 0.5 (ablation)DeNet-34 · MSCOCO test-devMAP@0.5:0.95: 29.5 -> 30.7; +1.2%Helped
Add independent fitness prediction to NMS scoringDeNet-34 (skip) · VOC 2007 test, Ω_test=0.9MAP: 18.4 -> 25.3Helped
Add joint class-and-fitness prediction to NMS scoringDeNet-34 (skip) · VOC 2007 test, Ω_test=0.9MAP: 18.4 -> 27.9Helped
Use independent rather than joint fitness prediction (ablation)DeNet models · MSCOCO test-dev, Ω_test=0.5MAP: DeNet-34 S: 47.9 -> 47.7; DeNet-34 W: 48.9 -> 48.5; DeNet-101 W: 53.4 -> 52.9Hurt
Use joint rather than independent fitness prediction (ablation)DeNet-101 wide · MSCOCO test-dev, Ω_test=0.5:0.95MAP: 35.2 -> 36.5Helped
Add joint Fitness NMSDeNet models · MSCOCO test-dev, Ω_test=0.75MAP: DeNet-34 S: 31.1 -> 33.5; DeNet-34 W: 31.8 -> 34.9; DeNet-101 W: 36.1 -> 39.1Helped
Combine Gaussian Soft-NMS with joint Fitness NMSDeNet models · MSCOCO test-dev, MAP@0.5:0.95MAP: 31.4 -> 32.2; 32.6 -> 33.4; 36.5 -> 37.2Helped
Replace R-CNN bounding-box regression loss with Bounded IoU Loss (ablation)DeNet models with joint Fitness NMS · MSCOCO test-dev, MAP@0.5:0.95MAP: 31.4 -> 32.1; 32.6 -> 33.6; 36.5 -> 37.0Helped
Add corner clustering (m=1) (ablation)DeNet wide models · MSCOCO test-devevaluation rate: 71 Hz -> 79 Hz; 22 Hz -> 24 HzHelped
Use standard NMS clustering at threshold 0.7 (ablation)DeNet wide models · MSCOCO test-devMAP@0.5:0.95: 33.1 -> 33.7; 36.3 -> 36.9Helped
Increase input dimension from ×512 to ×768 (ablation)DeNet-101 wide · MSCOCO test-devMAP@0.5:0.95: 36.9 -> 39.5Helped
Increase input image scale (ablation)DeNet-101 wide · MSCOCO test-dev, large objectsMAP for large objects: 56.5 -> 54.1 -> 49.4 -> 42.3 -> 34.4Mixed

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