Relation Networks for Object Detection

Understand

Although it is well believed for years that modeling relations between objects would help object recognition, there has not been evidence that the idea is working in the deep learning era.

• All state-of-the-art object detection systems still rely on recognizing object instances individually, without exploiting their relations during learning.
• This work proposes an object relation module.
• It processes a set of objects simultaneously through interaction between their appearance feature and geometry, thus allowing modeling of their relations.