对象检测是计算机视野领域的一个非常重要的基本研究方向，以及计算机视野领域的其他高级任务的基本方法。它已广泛用于实际应用，如对象跟踪，视频行为识别和水下机器人愿景。Cascade-RCNN和可变形卷积网络都是经典和优异的对象检测算法。在本报告中，我们在带有不同的工程技巧和Augumentation的水下光学图像和声学图像数据集中评估基于Cascade-DCN的方法。

In object detection, an intersection over union (IoU) threshold is required to define positives and negatives. An object detector, trained with low IoU threshold, e.g. 0.5, usually produces noisy detections. However, detection performance tends to degrade with increasing the IoU thresholds. Two main factors are responsible for this: 1) overfitting during training, due to exponentially vanishing positive samples, and 2) inference-time mismatch between the IoUs for which the detector is optimal and those of the input hypotheses. A multi-stage object detection architecture, the Cascade R-CNN, is proposed to address these problems. It consists of a sequence of detectors trained with increasing IoU thresholds, to be sequentially more selective against close false positives. The detectors are trained stage by stage, leveraging the observation that the output of a detector is a good distribution for training the next higher quality detector. The resampling of progressively improved hypotheses guarantees that all detectors have a positive set of examples of equivalent size, reducing the overfitting problem. The same cascade procedure is applied at inference, enabling a closer match between the hypotheses and the detector quality of each stage. A simple implementation of the Cascade R-CNN is shown to surpass all single-model object detectors on the challenging COCO dataset. Experiments also show that the Cascade R-CNN is widely applicable across detector architectures, achieving consistent gains independently of the baseline detector strength. The code will be made available at https://github.com/zhaoweicai/cascade-rcnn.

In object detection, the intersection over union (IoU) threshold is frequently used to define positives/negatives. The threshold used to train a detector defines its quality. While the commonly used threshold of 0.5 leads to noisy (low-quality) detections, detection performance frequently degrades for larger thresholds. This paradox of high-quality detection has two causes: 1) overfitting, due to vanishing positive samples for large thresholds, and 2) inference-time quality mismatch between detector and test hypotheses. A multi-stage object detection architecture, the Cascade R-CNN, composed of a sequence of detectors trained with increasing IoU thresholds, is proposed to address these problems. The detectors are trained sequentially, using the output of a detector as training set for the next. This resampling progressively improves hypotheses quality, guaranteeing a positive training set of equivalent size for all detectors and minimizing overfitting. The same cascade is applied at inference, to eliminate quality mismatches between hypotheses and detectors. An implementation of the Cascade R-CNN without bells or whistles achieves state-of-the-art performance on the COCO dataset, and significantly improves high-quality detection on generic and specific object detection datasets, including VOC, KITTI, CityPerson, and WiderFace. Finally, the Cascade R-CNN is generalized to instance segmentation, with nontrivial improvements over the Mask R-CNN. To facilitate future research, two implementations are made available at https://github.com/zhaoweicai/cascade-rcnn (Caffe) and https://github.com/zhaoweicai/Detectron-Cascade-RCNN (Detectron).

Modern object detectors rely heavily on rectangular bounding boxes, such as anchors, proposals and the final predictions, to represent objects at various recognition stages. The bounding box is convenient to use but provides only a coarse localization of objects and leads to a correspondingly coarse extraction of object features. In this paper, we present RepPoints (representative points), a new finer representation of objects as a set of sample points useful for both localization and recognition. Given ground truth localization and recognition targets for training, RepPoints learn to automatically arrange themselves in a manner that bounds the spatial extent of an object and indicates semantically significant local areas. They furthermore do not require the use of anchors to sample a space of bounding boxes. We show that an anchor-free object detector based on RepPoints can be as effective as the state-of-the-art anchor-based detection methods, with 46.5 AP and 67.4 AP 50 on the COCO test-dev detection benchmark, using ResNet-101 model. Code is available at https://github.com/microsoft/RepPoints.

Feature pyramids are a basic component in recognition systems for detecting objects at different scales. But recent deep learning object detectors have avoided pyramid representations, in part because they are compute and memory intensive. In this paper, we exploit the inherent multi-scale, pyramidal hierarchy of deep convolutional networks to construct feature pyramids with marginal extra cost. A topdown architecture with lateral connections is developed for building high-level semantic feature maps at all scales. This architecture, called a Feature Pyramid Network (FPN), shows significant improvement as a generic feature extractor in several applications. Using FPN in a basic Faster R-CNN system, our method achieves state-of-the-art singlemodel results on the COCO detection benchmark without bells and whistles, surpassing all existing single-model entries including those from the COCO 2016 challenge winners. In addition, our method can run at 6 FPS on a GPU and thus is a practical and accurate solution to multi-scale object detection. Code will be made publicly available.

Due to object detection's close relationship with video analysis and image understanding, it has attracted much research attention in recent years. Traditional object detection methods are built on handcrafted features and shallow trainable architectures. Their performance easily stagnates by constructing complex ensembles which combine multiple low-level image features with high-level context from object detectors and scene classifiers. With the rapid development in deep learning, more powerful tools, which are able to learn semantic, high-level, deeper features, are introduced to address the problems existing in traditional architectures. These models behave differently in network architecture, training strategy and optimization function, etc. In this paper, we provide a review on deep learning based object detection frameworks. Our review begins with a brief introduction on the history of deep learning and its representative tool, namely Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Then we focus on typical generic object detection architectures along with some modifications and useful tricks to improve detection performance further. As distinct specific detection tasks exhibit different characteristics, we also briefly survey several specific tasks, including salient object detection, face detection and pedestrian detection. Experimental analyses are also provided to compare various methods and draw some meaningful conclusions. Finally, several promising directions and tasks are provided to serve as guidelines for future work in both object detection and relevant neural network based learning systems.

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are inherently limited to model geometric transformations due to the fixed geometric structures in their building modules. In this work, we introduce two new modules to enhance the transformation modeling capability of CNNs, namely, deformable convolution and deformable RoI pooling. Both are based on the idea of augmenting the spatial sampling locations in the modules with additional offsets and learning the offsets from the target tasks, without additional supervision. The new modules can readily replace their plain counterparts in existing CNNs and can be easily trained end-to-end by standard back-propagation, giving rise to deformable convolutional networks. Extensive experiments validate the performance of our approach. For the first time, we show that learning dense spatial transformation in deep CNNs is effective for sophisticated vision tasks such as object detection and semantic segmentation. The code is released at https://github.com/ msracver/Deformable-ConvNets.

特征金字塔网络（FPN）已成为对象检测模型考虑对象的各种尺度的重要模块。但是，小物体上的平均精度（AP）相对低于中和大物体上的AP。原因是CNN较深层导致信息丢失作为特征提取水平的原因。我们提出了一个新的比例顺序（S^2）特征FPN的特征提取，以增强小物体的特征信息。我们将FPN结构视为尺度空间和提取尺度序列（s^2）特征，该特征是在FPN的水平轴上通过3D卷积。它基本上是扩展不变的功能，并建立在小物体的高分辨率金字塔功能图上。此外，建议的S^2功能可以扩展到基于FPN的大多数对象检测模型。我们证明所提出的S2功能可以提高COCO数据集中一阶段和两阶段探测器的性能。根据提出的S2功能，我们分别为Yolov4-P5和Yolov4-P6获得了高达1.3％和1.1％的AP改善。对于更快的RCNN和Mask R-CNN，我们分别观察到AP改进的2.0％和1.6％，分别具有建议的S^2功能。

Modern CNN-based object detectors rely on bounding box regression and non-maximum suppression to localize objects. While the probabilities for class labels naturally reflect classification confidence, localization confidence is absent. This makes properly localized bounding boxes degenerate during iterative regression or even suppressed during NMS. In the paper we propose IoU-Net learning to predict the IoU between each detected bounding box and the matched ground-truth. The network acquires this confidence of localization, which improves the NMS procedure by preserving accurately localized bounding boxes. Furthermore, an optimization-based bounding box refinement method is proposed, where the predicted IoU is formulated as the objective. Extensive experiments on the MS-COCO dataset show the effectiveness of IoU-Net, as well as its compatibility with and adaptivity to several state-of-the-art object detectors.

Although it is well believed for years that modeling relations between objects would help object recognition, there has not been evidence that the idea is working in the deep learning era. All state-of-the-art object detection systems still rely on recognizing object instances individually, without exploiting their relations during learning.This work proposes an object relation module. It processes a set of objects simultaneously through interaction between their appearance feature and geometry, thus allowing modeling of their relations. It is lightweight and in-place. It does not require additional supervision and is easy to embed in existing networks. It is shown effective on improving object recognition and duplicate removal steps in the modern object detection pipeline. It verifies the efficacy of modeling object relations in CNN based detection. It gives rise to the first fully end-to-end object detector. Code is available at https://github.com/msracver/ Relation-Networks-for-Object-Detection.

DETR方法中引入的查询机制正在改变对象检测的范例，最近有许多基于查询的方法获得了强对象检测性能。但是，当前基于查询的检测管道遇到了以下两个问题。首先，需要多阶段解码器来优化随机初始化的对象查询，从而产生较大的计算负担。其次，训练后的查询是固定的，导致不满意的概括能力。为了纠正上述问题，我们在较快的R-CNN框架中提出了通过查询生成网络预测的特征对象查询，并开发了一个功能性的查询R-CNN。可可数据集的广泛实验表明，我们的特征查询R-CNN获得了所有R-CNN探测器的最佳速度准确性权衡，包括最近的最新稀疏R-CNN检测器。该代码可在\ url {https://github.com/hustvl/featurized-queryrcnn}中获得。

面部检测是为了在图像中搜索面部的所有可能区域，并且如果有任何情况，则定位面部。包括面部识别，面部表情识别，面部跟踪和头部姿势估计的许多应用假设面部的位置和尺寸在图像中是已知的。近几十年来，研究人员从Viola-Jones脸上检测器创造了许多典型和有效的面部探测器到当前的基于CNN的CNN。然而，随着图像和视频的巨大增加，具有面部刻度的变化，外观，表达，遮挡和姿势，传统的面部探测器被挑战来检测野外面孔的各种“脸部。深度学习技术的出现带来了非凡的检测突破，以及计算的价格相当大的价格。本文介绍了代表性的深度学习的方法，并在准确性和效率方面提出了深度和全面的分析。我们进一步比较并讨论了流行的并挑战数据集及其评估指标。进行了几种成功的基于深度学习的面部探测器的全面比较，以使用两个度量来揭示其效率：拖鞋和延迟。本文可以指导为不同应用选择合适的面部探测器，也可以开发更高效和准确的探测器。

Cascade is a classic yet powerful architecture that has boosted performance on various tasks. However, how to introduce cascade to instance segmentation remains an open question. A simple combination of Cascade R-CNN and Mask R-CNN only brings limited gain. In exploring a more effective approach, we find that the key to a successful instance segmentation cascade is to fully leverage the reciprocal relationship between detection and segmentation. In this work, we propose a new framework, Hybrid Task Cascade (HTC), which differs in two important aspects: (1) instead of performing cascaded refinement on these two tasks separately, it interweaves them for a joint multi-stage processing; (2) it adopts a fully convolutional branch to provide spatial context, which can help distinguishing hard foreground from cluttered background. Overall, this framework can learn more discriminative features progressively while integrating complementary features together in each stage. Without bells and whistles, a single HTC obtains 38.4% and 1.5% improvement over a strong Cascade Mask R-CNN baseline on MSCOCO dataset. Moreover, our overall system achieves 48.6 mask AP on the test-challenge split, ranking 1st in the COCO 2018 Challenge Object Detection Task. Code is available at: https://github.com/ open-mmlab/mmdetection.

复杂的水下环境为物体检测带来了新的挑战，例如未平衡的光条件，低对比度，阻塞和水生生物的模仿。在这种情况下，水下相机捕获的物体将变得模糊，并且通用探测器通常会在这些模糊的物体上失败。这项工作旨在从两个角度解决问题：不确定性建模和艰难的例子采矿。我们提出了一个名为Boosting R-CNN的两阶段水下检测器，该检测器包括三个关键组件。首先，提出了一个名为RetinArpn的新区域建议网络，该网络提供了高质量的建议，并考虑了对象和IOU预测，以确定对象事先概率的不确定性。其次，引入了概率推理管道，以结合第一阶段的先验不确定性和第二阶段分类评分，以模拟最终检测分数。最后，我们提出了一种名为Boosting Reweighting的新的硬示例挖掘方法。具体而言，当区域提案网络误认为样品的对象的事先概率时，提高重新加权将在训练过程中增加R-CNN头部样品的分类损失，同时减少具有准确估计的先验的简易样品丢失。因此，可以在第二阶段获得强大的检测头。在推理阶段，R-CNN具有纠正第一阶段的误差以提高性能的能力。在两个水下数据集和两个通用对象检测数据集上进行的全面实验证明了我们方法的有效性和鲁棒性。

State-of-the-art object detection networks depend on region proposal algorithms to hypothesize object locations. Advances like SPPnet [1] and Fast R-CNN [2] have reduced the running time of these detection networks, exposing region proposal computation as a bottleneck. In this work, we introduce a Region Proposal Network (RPN) that shares full-image convolutional features with the detection network, thus enabling nearly cost-free region proposals. An RPN is a fully convolutional network that simultaneously predicts object bounds and objectness scores at each position. The RPN is trained end-to-end to generate high-quality region proposals, which are used by Fast R-CNN for detection. We further merge RPN and Fast R-CNN into a single network by sharing their convolutional features-using the recently popular terminology of neural networks with "attention" mechanisms, the RPN component tells the unified network where to look. For the very deep VGG-16 model [3], our detection system has a frame rate of 5fps (including all steps) on a GPU, while achieving state-of-the-art object detection accuracy on PASCAL VOC 2007, 2012, and MS COCO datasets with only 300 proposals per image. In ILSVRC and COCO 2015 competitions, Faster R-CNN and RPN are the foundations of the 1st-place winning entries in several tracks. Code has been made publicly available.

对象检测器的复杂性过度权衡是资源约束视觉任务的关键问题。先前的作品强调了用有效的骨干实现的检测器。在这项工作中，研究了对检测负责人对提案处理的这种权衡的影响。假设提高的检测效率需要范式转移，朝着不平等的建议处理，将更多的计算分配给良好的建议，而不是贫穷的建议。这可以更好地利用可用的计算预算，从而为同一失败提供了更高的精度。我们将其作为一个学习问题提出，目的是将操作员分配给检测头的建议，以便将总计算成本受到限制，并且精确度最大。关键发现是，可以将这种匹配作为一个函数，该函数将每个提案嵌入到操作员的单速代码中。尽管此功能诱导了复杂的动态网络路由机制，但它可以由简单的MLP实现，并通过现成的对象检测器端到端学习。这种“动态建议处理”（DPP）显示出明确的计算复杂性的明确余量，表现出优于最先进的端到端对象检测器（DETR，稀疏R-CNN）。

本文提出了平行残留的双融合特征金字塔网络（PRB-FPN），以快速准确地单光对象检测。特征金字塔（FP）在最近的视觉检测中被广泛使用，但是由于汇总转换，FP的自上而下的途径无法保留准确的定位。随着使用更多层的更深骨干，FP的优势被削弱了。此外，它不能同时准确地检测到小物体。为了解决这些问题，我们提出了一种新的并行FP结构，具有双向（自上而下和自下而上）的融合以及相关的改进，以保留高质量的特征以进行准确定位。我们提供以下设计改进：（1）具有自下而上的融合模块（BFM）的平行分歧FP结构，以高精度立即检测小物体和大对象。 （2）串联和重组（CORE）模块为特征融合提供了自下而上的途径，该途径导致双向融合FP，可以从低层特征图中恢复丢失的信息。 （3）进一步纯化核心功能以保留更丰富的上下文信息。自上而下和自下而上的途径中的这种核心净化只能在几次迭代中完成。 （4）将残留设计添加到核心中，导致了一个新的重核模块，该模块可以轻松训练和集成，并具有更深入或更轻的骨架。所提出的网络可在UAVDT17和MS COCO数据集上实现最新性能。代码可在https://github.com/pingyang1117/prbnet_pytorch上找到。

由于卷积在提取物体的局部上下文中，在过去十年中，对象检测在过去十年中取得了重大进展。但是，对象的尺度是多样的，当前卷积只能处理单尺度输入。因此，传统卷积具有固定接收场在处理这种规模差异问题方面的能力受到限制。多尺度功能表示已被证明是缓解规模差异问题的有效方法。最近的研究主要与某些量表或各个尺度的总体特征采用部分联系，并专注于整个量表的全球信息。但是，跨空间和深度维度的信息被忽略了。受此启发，我们提出了多尺度卷积（MSCONV）来解决此问题。同时考虑到量表，空间和深度信息，MSCONV能够更全面地处理多尺度输入。 MSCONV是有效的，并且在计算上是有效的，只有少量计算成本增加。对于大多数单阶段对象探测器，在检测头中用MSCONV代替传统的卷积可以带来AP的2.5 \％改进（在Coco 2017数据集上），只有3 \％的拖鞋增加了。 MSCONV对于两阶段对象探测器也具有灵活性和有效性。当扩展到主流两阶段对象检测器时，MSCONV的AP可以提高3.0 \％。我们在单尺度测试下的最佳模型在Coco 2017上实现了48.9 \％AP，\ textit {test-dev} Split，它超过了许多最新方法。

近年来，基于深度学习的面部检测算法取得了长足的进步。这些算法通常可以分为两类，即诸如更快的R-CNN和像Yolo这样的单阶段检测器之类的两个阶段检测器。由于准确性和速度之间的平衡更好，因此在许多应用中广泛使用了一阶段探测器。在本文中，我们提出了一个基于一阶段检测器Yolov5的实时面部检测器，名为Yolo-Facev2。我们设计一个称为RFE的接收场增强模块，以增强小面的接受场，并使用NWD损失来弥补IOU对微小物体的位置偏差的敏感性。对于面部阻塞，我们提出了一个名为Seam的注意模块，并引入了排斥损失以解决它。此外，我们使用重量函数幻灯片来解决简单和硬样品之间的不平衡，并使用有效的接收场的信息来设计锚。宽面数据集上的实验结果表明，在所有简单，中和硬子集中都可以找到我们的面部检测器及其变体的表现及其变体。源代码https://github.com/krasjet-yu/yolo-facev2