Title
ANMS: attention-based non-maximum suppression
Abstract
Non-Maximum Suppression (NMS) is an essential part of the object detection pipeline. However, due to the inconsistency between the classification confidence and the object localization, NMS may mistakenly eliminate the bounding boxes with low classification confidence and high localization accuracy. In this paper, we propose an attention-based non-maximum suppression (ANMS) algorithm. It reconstructs the attention map to obtain the object location information by backpropagating the top-level object classification semantic information. Furthermore, integrating the classification confidence and the attention map of the detection bounding boxes adjust the inconsistency between the classification confidence and the object localization. On the PASCAL VOC2007 and the PASCAL VOC2012 datasets, the proposed ANMS algorithm achieved 1.85 and 1.24 performance improvement over the NMS algorithm. On the MS COCO datasets, the proposed ANMS algorithm achieved 0.3 performance improvement, which proved the ANMS algorithm’s effectiveness.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1007/s11042-022-12142-5
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Object detection, Non-maximum suppression, Attention map
Journal
81
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
8
1380-7501
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chunsheng Guo174.59
Meng Cai200.34
Na Ying300.34
HuaHua Chen400.34
Jianwu Zhang5187.11
Di Zhou621.38