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Sparse R-CNN: End-to-End Object Detection With Learnable Proposals

CVPR 2021 · Detection and segmentation › CNN features · approach: Region-based and query-based detectors · 1,489 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Replace the dense RPN with learnable sparse proposal boxes (ablation)Faster R-CNN · COCO 2017 valAP: 40.2 -> 18.5Hurt
Add iterative box refinement (ablation)Sparse R-CNN with learnable proposals · COCO 2017 valAP: +13.7 APHelped
Concatenate previous-stage object features into the current stage (ablation)Sparse R-CNN iterative architecture · COCO 2017 valAP: +11.7 APHelped
Add self-attention to object features (ablation)Sparse R-CNN iterative model · COCO 2017 valAP: 32.2 -> 37.2 (+5.0)Helped
Add dynamic instance interaction after self-attention (ablation)Sparse R-CNN · COCO 2017 valAP: 37.2 -> 42.3 (+5.1)Helped
Replace multi-head attention with the dynamic head (ablation)Sparse R-CNN recognition head · COCO 2017 valAP: +6.6 APHelped
Change proposal-box initialization among center, whole-image, grid, and random (ablation)Sparse R-CNN · COCO 2017 valAP: 41.0 to 42.3No clear effect
Increase the number of proposals from 100 to 500 (ablation)Sparse R-CNN · COCO 2017 valAP: 42.3 -> 44.6Helped
Increase proposals from 100 to 500 (ablation)Sparse R-CNN · COCO 2017 valtraining time: 19h -> 60hHurt
Increase iterative stage count from 1 to 6 (ablation)Sparse R-CNN · COCO 2017 valAP: 21.7 -> 42.3Helped
Increase iterative stage count from 6 to 12 (ablation)Sparse R-CNN · COCO 2017 valAP: 42.3 -> 41.6Hurt
Remove positional encoding from the proposal features (ablation)Sparse R-CNN · COCO 2017 valAP: 41.9 -> 42.3No clear effect

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