Title
Stair-Step Feature Pyramid Networks For Object Detection
Abstract
Feature Pyramid Networks have solved scale variation problems in object detection by developing multi-level features with different scales from backbone networks. Although this network achieved promising performance without affecting model complexity, they still suffer feature-level imbalance between multi-level features, i.e., low-level features and high-level features in each stage of the backbone. Moreover, the detection head predicts classification scores and offset regression independently on each feature of multi-level features, which leads to inconsistency among the detection branch. Hence, this paper releases this problem by introducing simple but effective Stair-step Feature Pyramid Networks (SFPN) to harmonize information between multi-level features. Further, the Offset Adaption Module (OA Module) is proposed to improve feature representation by adapting the feature of the classification branch with regressed offsets of the regression branch. On the MS-COCO dataset, the proposed method increases by 1.2% Average Precision when comparing with baseline FCOS without bells and whistles.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/978-3-030-81638-4_13
FRONTIERS OF COMPUTER VISION, IW-FCV 2021
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Stair-step FPN, Offset Adaption, Object detection
Conference
1405
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1865-0929
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xuan-Thuy Vo100.68
Tien-Dat Tran200.68
Duy-Linh Nguyen300.68
Kang-Hyun Jo401.35