2019

Soft Anchor-Point Object Detection

Zhu, Chenchen, Chen, Fangyi, Shen, Zhiqiang et al.

Understand

Recently, anchor-free detection methods have been through great progress.

The major two families, anchor-point detection and key-point detection, are at opposite edges of the speed-accuracy trade-off, with anchor-point detectors having the speed advantage.
In this work, we boost the performance of the anchor-point detector over the key-point counterparts while maintaining the speed advantage.
To achieve this, we formulate the detection problem from the anchor point's perspective and identify ineffective training as the main problem.

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