Exploring the Bounds of the Utility of Context for Object Detection

Understand

The recurring context in which objects appear holds valuable information that can be employed to predict their existence.

• This intuitive observation indeed led many researchers to endow appearance-based detectors with explicit reasoning about context.
• The underlying thesis suggests that stronger contextual relations would facilitate greater improvements in detection capacity.
• In practice, however, the observed improvement in many cases is modest at best, and often only marginal.