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Bridging the Gap Between Anchor-Based and Anchor-Free Detection via Adaptive Training Sample Selection

CVPR 2020 · Detection and segmentation › CNN features · approach: Box regression and loss design · 2,370 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Replace IoU assignment with ATSS adaptive sample selectionRetinaNet (#A=1) · MS COCO minivalAP: 37.0 -> 39.3; +2.3%Helped
Apply ATSS candidate selection while retaining fixed FCOS scale ranges (center sampling) (ablation)FCOS · MS COCO minivalAP: 37.8 -> 38.6Helped
Replace FCOS fixed scale-range selection with ATSS adaptive selection (ablation)FCOS · MS COCO minivalAP: 38.6 -> 39.2Helped
Use spatial and scale constraints instead of IoU-based sample selection (ablation)RetinaNet (#A=1) · MS COCO minivalAP: 37.0 -> 37.8Helped
Use IoU-based sample selection instead of spatial and scale constraints (ablation)FCOS · MS COCO minivalAP: 37.8 -> 36.9Hurt
Regress from an anchor point rather than an anchor box, holding sample selection fixed (ablation)RetinaNet and FCOS · MS COCO minivalAP: 37.0 vs. 36.9; 37.8 vs. 37.8No clear effect
Add GroupNorm, GIoU loss, in-box positives, centerness, and a trainable scalar (ablation)RetinaNet (#A=1) · MS COCO minivalAP: 32.5 -> 37.0Helped
Vary ATSS candidate count k from 7 to 17 (ablation)ATSS · MS COCO minivalAP: 39.1 to 39.3No clear effect
Reduce candidate count to k=3 (ablation)ATSS · MS COCO minivalAP: 39.3 -> 38.0Hurt
Increase candidate count to k=19 (ablation)ATSS · MS COCO minivalAP: 39.3 -> 38.9Hurt
Vary anchor scale from 5 to 9 or aspect ratio from 1:4 to 4:1 (ablation)ATSS · MS COCO minivalAP: AP values from 38.9 to 39.3No clear effect
Use multiple anchors per location instead of one under ATSS (ablation)RetinaNet with ATSS · MS COCO minivalAP: 39.2 vs. 39.3No clear effect

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