Title
Association Loss For Visual Object Detection
Abstract
Convolutional neural network (CNN) is a popular choice for visual object detection where two sub-nets are often used to achieve object classification and localization separately. However, the intrinsic relation between the localization and classification sub-nets was not exploited explicitly for object detection. In this letter, we propose a novel association loss, namely, the proxy squared error (PSE) loss, to entangle the two sub-nets, thus use the dependency between the classification and localization scores obtained from these two sub-nets to improve the detection performance. We evaluate our proposed loss on the MS-COCO dataset and compare it with the loss in a recent baseline, i.e. the fully convolutional one-stage (FCOS) detector. The results show that our method can improve the AP from 33.8 to 35.4 and AP(75) from 35.4 to 37.8, as compared with the FCOS baseline.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/LSP.2020.3013160
IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Object detection, Detectors, Training, Heating systems, Feature extraction, Visualization, Convolutional neural networks, Association loss, object detection, object localization, object classification, convolutional neural networks
Journal
27
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1070-9908
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dongli Xu100.34
GUAN Jian24715.77
Pengming Feng3334.90
Wenwu Wang433352.60