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Deep learning enables high accuracy in object detection in comparison with alternative methods. However deep learning based algorithms are often computationally expensive. That limits the use in many real world scenarios. For decades, researchers have been working on speeding up object detection. One bottleneck in current state-of-the-art methods is the region proposal generation stage as hundreds and thousands of proposed regions need to be processed before detection. Most of the regions are background areas which do not contribute to the actual detection. To improve the efficiency, we propose a region proposal network that can significantly reduce background while maintaining high accuracy. The comparison with SOTA methods shows that our network can be up to 70 times faster, since it only contains 1/15 to 1/150 parameters relative to these methods. The class IoU for MS COCO subsets achieves 40% to 70% and the inference speed on GTX 1080Ti can achieve above 1000 FPS performance. In addition, our study shows that high resolution input is not a must for high accuracy. The use of down-sampled images can further reduce computation costs while retaining or even improving accuracy.
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Li, W., Song, A. (2022). UFO RPN: A Region Proposal Network for Ultra Fast Object Detection. In: Long, G., Yu, X., Wang, S. (eds) AI 2021: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13151. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97546-3_50
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