本文介绍了Houghnet，这是一种单阶段，无锚，基于投票的，自下而上的对象检测方法。受到广义的霍夫变换的启发，霍尼特通过在该位置投票的总和确定了某个位置的物体的存在。投票是根据对数极极投票领域的近距离和长距离地点收集的。由于这种投票机制，Houghnet能够整合近距离和远程的班级条件证据以进行视觉识别，从而概括和增强当前的对象检测方法，这通常仅依赖于本地证据。在可可数据集中，Houghnet的最佳型号达到$ 46.4 $ $ $ ap $（和$ 65.1 $ $ $ ap_ {50} $），与自下而上的对象检测中的最先进的作品相同，超越了最重要的一项 - 阶段和两阶段方法。我们进一步验证了提案在其他视觉检测任务中的有效性，即视频对象检测，实例分割，3D对象检测和人为姿势估计的关键点检测以及其他“图像”图像生成任务的附加“标签”，其中集成的集成在所有情况下，我们的投票模块始终提高性能。代码可在https://github.com/nerminsamet/houghnet上找到。

We present a conceptually simple, flexible, and general framework for object instance segmentation. Our approach efficiently detects objects in an image while simultaneously generating a high-quality segmentation mask for each instance. The method, called Mask R-CNN, extends Faster R-CNN by adding a branch for predicting an object mask in parallel with the existing branch for bounding box recognition. Mask R-CNN is simple to train and adds only a small overhead to Faster R-CNN, running at 5 fps. Moreover, Mask R-CNN is easy to generalize to other tasks, e.g., allowing us to estimate human poses in the same framework. We show top results in all three tracks of the COCO suite of challenges, including instance segmentation, bounding-box object detection, and person keypoint detection. Without tricks, Mask R-CNN outperforms all existing, single-model entries on every task, including the COCO 2016 challenge winners. We hope our simple and effective approach will serve as a solid baseline and help ease future research in instance-level recognition. Code will be made available.

在本文中，我们提出了简单的关注机制，我们称之为箱子。它可以实现网格特征之间的空间交互，从感兴趣的框中采样，并提高变压器的学习能力，以获得几个视觉任务。具体而言，我们呈现拳击手，短暂的框变压器，通过从输入特征映射上的参考窗口预测其转换来参加一组框。通过考虑其网格结构，拳击手通过考虑其网格结构来计算这些框的注意力。值得注意的是，Boxer-2D自然有关于其注意模块内容信息的框信息的原因，使其适用于端到端实例检测和分段任务。通过在盒注意模块中旋转的旋转的不变性，Boxer-3D能够从用于3D端到端对象检测的鸟瞰图平面产生识别信息。我们的实验表明，拟议的拳击手-2D在Coco检测中实现了更好的结果，并且在Coco实例分割上具有良好的和高度优化的掩模R-CNN可比性。 Boxer-3D已经为Waymo开放的车辆类别提供了令人信服的性能，而无需任何特定的类优化。代码将被释放。

我们提出了一种用于多实例姿态估计的端到端培训方法，称为诗人（姿势估计变压器）。将卷积神经网络与变压器编码器 - 解码器架构组合，我们将多个姿势估计从图像标记为直接设置预测问题。我们的模型能够使用双方匹配方案直接出现所有个人的姿势。诗人使用基于集的全局损失进行培训，该丢失包括关键点损耗，可见性损失和载重损失。诗歌的原因与多个检测到的个人与完整图像上下文之间的关系直接预测它们并行姿势。我们展示诗人在Coco Keypoint检测任务上实现了高精度，同时具有比其他自下而上和自上而下的方法更少的参数和更高推理速度。此外，在将诗人应用于动物姿势估计时，我们表现出了成功的转移学习。据我们所知，该模型是第一个端到端的培训多实例姿态估计方法，我们希望它将成为一种简单而有前途的替代方案。

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).

我们为变体视觉任务提供了一个概念上简单，灵活和通用的视觉感知头，例如分类，对象检测，实例分割和姿势估计以及不同的框架，例如单阶段或两个阶段的管道。我们的方法有效地标识了图像中的对象，同时同时生成高质量的边界框或基于轮廓的分割掩码或一组关键点。该方法称为Unihead，将不同的视觉感知任务视为通过变压器编码器体系结构学习的可分配点。给定固定的空间坐标，Unihead将其自适应地分散到了不同的空间点和有关它们的关系的原因。它以多个点的形式直接输出最终预测集，使我们能够在具有相同头部设计的不同框架中执行不同的视觉任务。我们展示了对成像网分类的广泛评估以及可可套件的所有三个曲目，包括对象检测，实例分割和姿势估计。如果没有铃铛和口哨声，Unihead可以通过单个视觉头设计统一这些视觉任务，并与为每个任务开发的专家模型相比，实现可比的性能。我们希望我们的简单和通用的Unihead能够成为可靠的基线，并有助于促进通用的视觉感知研究。代码和型号可在https://github.com/sense-x/unihead上找到。

We propose CornerNet, a new approach to object detection where we detect an object bounding box as a pair of keypoints, the top-left corner and the bottom-right corner, using a single convolution neural network. By detecting objects as paired keypoints, we eliminate the need for designing a set of anchor boxes commonly used in prior single-stage detectors. In addition to our novel formulation, we introduce corner pooling, a new type of pooling layer that helps the network better localize corners. Experiments show that Corner-Net achieves a 42.2% AP on MS COCO, outperforming all existing one-stage detectors.

近年来，自主驾驶LIDAR数据的3D对象检测一直在迈出卓越的进展。在最先进的方法中，已经证明了将点云进行编码为鸟瞰图（BEV）是有效且有效的。与透视图不同，BEV在物体之间保留丰富的空间和距离信息;虽然在BEV中相同类型的更远物体不会较小，但它们包含稀疏点云特征。这一事实使用共享卷积神经网络削弱了BEV特征提取。为了解决这一挑战，我们提出了范围感知注意网络（RAANET），提取更强大的BEV功能并产生卓越的3D对象检测。范围感知的注意力（RAA）卷曲显着改善了近距离的特征提取。此外，我们提出了一种新的辅助损耗，用于密度估计，以进一步增强覆盖物体的Raanet的检测精度。值得注意的是，我们提出的RAA卷积轻量级，并兼容，以集成到用于BEV检测的任何CNN架构中。 Nuscenes DataSet上的广泛实验表明，我们的提出方法优于基于LIDAR的3D对象检测的最先进的方法，具有16 Hz的实时推断速度，为LITE版本为22 Hz。该代码在匿名GitHub存储库HTTPS://github.com/Anonymous0522 / ange上公开提供。

大多数最先进的实例级人类解析模型都采用了两阶段的基于锚的探测器，因此无法避免启发式锚盒设计和像素级别缺乏分析。为了解决这两个问题，我们设计了一个实例级人类解析网络，该网络在像素级别上无锚固且可解决。它由两个简单的子网络组成：一个用于边界框预测的无锚检测头和一个用于人体分割的边缘引导解析头。无锚探测器的头继承了像素样的优点，并有效地避免了对象检测应用中证明的超参数的敏感性。通过引入部分感知的边界线索，边缘引导的解析头能够将相邻的人类部分与彼此区分开，最多可在一个人类实例中，甚至重叠的实例。同时，利用了精炼的头部整合盒子级别的分数和部分分析质量，以提高解析结果的质量。在两个多个人类解析数据集（即CIHP和LV-MHP-V2.0）和一个视频实例级人类解析数据集（即VIP）上进行实验，表明我们的方法实现了超过全球级别和实例级别的性能最新的一阶段自上而下的替代方案。

深神网络的对象探测器正在不断发展，并用于多种应用程序，每个应用程序都有自己的要求集。尽管关键安全应用需要高准确性和可靠性，但低延迟任务需要资源和节能网络。不断提出了实时探测器，在高影响现实世界中是必需的，但是它们过分强调了准确性和速度的提高，而其他功能（例如多功能性，鲁棒性，资源和能源效率）则被省略。现有网络的参考基准不存在，设计新网络的标准评估指南也不存在，从而导致比较模棱两可和不一致的比较。因此，我们对广泛的数据集进行了多个实时探测器（基于锚点，关键器和变压器）的全面研究，并报告了一系列广泛指标的结果。我们还研究了变量，例如图像大小，锚固尺寸，置信阈值和架构层对整体性能的影响。我们分析了检测网络的鲁棒性，以防止分配变化，自然腐败和对抗性攻击。此外，我们提供了校准分析来评估预测的可靠性。最后，为了强调现实世界的影响，我们对自动驾驶和医疗保健应用进行了两个独特的案例研究。为了进一步衡量关键实时应用程序中网络的能力，我们报告了在Edge设备上部署检测网络后的性能。我们广泛的实证研究可以作为工业界对现有网络做出明智选择的指南。我们还希望激发研究社区的设计和评估网络的新方向，该网络着重于更大而整体的概述，以实现深远的影响。

We present a simple, fully-convolutional model for realtime instance segmentation that achieves 29.8 mAP on MS COCO at 33.5 fps evaluated on a single Titan Xp, which is significantly faster than any previous competitive approach. Moreover, we obtain this result after training on only one GPU. We accomplish this by breaking instance segmentation into two parallel subtasks: (1) generating a set of prototype masks and (2) predicting per-instance mask coefficients. Then we produce instance masks by linearly combining the prototypes with the mask coefficients. We find that because this process doesn't depend on repooling, this approach produces very high-quality masks and exhibits temporal stability for free. Furthermore, we analyze the emergent behavior of our prototypes and show they learn to localize instances on their own in a translation variant manner, despite being fully-convolutional. Finally, we also propose Fast NMS, a drop-in 12 ms faster replacement for standard NMS that only has a marginal performance penalty.

In this paper, we introduce an anchor-box free and single shot instance segmentation method, which is conceptually simple, fully convolutional and can be used by easily embedding it into most off-the-shelf detection methods. Our method, termed PolarMask, formulates the instance segmentation problem as predicting contour of instance through instance center classification and dense distance regression in a polar coordinate. Moreover, we propose two effective approaches to deal with sampling high-quality center examples and optimization for dense distance regression, respectively, which can significantly improve the performance and simplify the training process. Without any bells and whistles, PolarMask achieves 32.9% in mask mAP with single-model and single-scale training/testing on the challenging COCO dataset.For the first time, we show that the complexity of instance segmentation, in terms of both design and computation complexity, can be the same as bounding box object detection and this much simpler and flexible instance segmentation framework can achieve competitive accuracy. We hope that the proposed PolarMask framework can serve as a fundamental and strong baseline for single shot instance segmentation task. Code is available at: github.com/xieenze/PolarMask.

分割高度重叠的图像对象是具有挑战性的，因为图像上的真实对象轮廓和遮挡边界之间通常没有区别。与先前的实例分割方法不同，我们将图像形成模拟为两个重叠层的组成，并提出了双层卷积网络（BCNET），其中顶层检测到遮挡对象（遮挡器），而底层则渗透到部分闭塞实例（胶囊）。遮挡关系与双层结构的显式建模自然地将遮挡和遮挡实例的边界解散，并在掩模回归过程中考虑了它们之间的相互作用。我们使用两种流行的卷积网络设计（即完全卷积网络（FCN）和图形卷积网络（GCN））研究了双层结构的功效。此外，我们通过将图像中的实例表示为单独的可学习封闭器和封闭者查询，从而使用视觉变压器（VIT）制定双层解耦。使用一个/两个阶段和基于查询的对象探测器具有各种骨架和网络层选择验证双层解耦合的概括能力，如图像实例分段基准（可可，亲戚，可可）和视频所示实例分割基准（YTVIS，OVIS，BDD100K MOTS），特别是对于重闭塞病例。代码和数据可在https://github.com/lkeab/bcnet上找到。

The 1$^{\text{st}}$ Workshop on Maritime Computer Vision (MaCVi) 2023 focused on maritime computer vision for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV), and organized several subchallenges in this domain: (i) UAV-based Maritime Object Detection, (ii) UAV-based Maritime Object Tracking, (iii) USV-based Maritime Obstacle Segmentation and (iv) USV-based Maritime Obstacle Detection. The subchallenges were based on the SeaDronesSee and MODS benchmarks. This report summarizes the main findings of the individual subchallenges and introduces a new benchmark, called SeaDronesSee Object Detection v2, which extends the previous benchmark by including more classes and footage. We provide statistical and qualitative analyses, and assess trends in the best-performing methodologies of over 130 submissions. The methods are summarized in the appendix. The datasets, evaluation code and the leaderboard are publicly available at https://seadronessee.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/macvi.

The topic of multi-person pose estimation has been largely improved recently, especially with the development of convolutional neural network. However, there still exist a lot of challenging cases, such as occluded keypoints, invisible keypoints and complex background, which cannot be well addressed. In this paper, we present a novel network structure called Cascaded Pyramid Network (CPN) which targets to relieve the problem from these "hard" keypoints. More specifically, our algorithm includes two stages: Glob-alNet and RefineNet. GlobalNet is a feature pyramid network which can successfully localize the "simple" keypoints like eyes and hands but may fail to precisely recognize the occluded or invisible keypoints. Our RefineNet tries explicitly handling the "hard" keypoints by integrating all levels of feature representations from the Global-Net together with an online hard keypoint mining loss. In general, to address the multi-person pose estimation problem, a top-down pipeline is adopted to first generate a set of human bounding boxes based on a detector, followed by our CPN for keypoint localization in each human bounding box. Based on the proposed algorithm, we achieve stateof-art results on the COCO keypoint benchmark, with average precision at 73.0 on the COCO test-dev dataset and 72.1 on the COCO test-challenge dataset, which is a 19% relative improvement compared with 60.5 from the COCO 2016 keypoint challenge. Code 1 and the detection results are publicly available for further research.

物体检测通常需要在现代深度学习方法中基于传统或锚盒的滑动窗口分类器。但是，这些方法中的任何一个都需要框中的繁琐配置。在本文中，我们提供了一种新的透视图，其中检测对象被激励为高电平语义特征检测任务。与边缘，角落，斑点和其他特征探测器一样，所提出的探测器扫描到全部图像的特征点，卷积自然适合该特征点。但是，与这些传统的低级功能不同，所提出的探测器用于更高级别的抽象，即我们正在寻找有物体的中心点，而现代深层模型已经能够具有如此高级别的语义抽象。除了Blob检测之外，我们还预测了中心点的尺度，这也是直接的卷积。因此，在本文中，通过卷积简化了行人和面部检测作为直接的中心和规模预测任务。这样，所提出的方法享有一个无盒设置。虽然结构简单，但它对几个具有挑战性的基准呈现竞争准确性，包括行人检测和面部检测。此外，执行交叉数据集评估，证明所提出的方法的卓越泛化能力。可以访问代码和模型（https://github.com/liuwei16/csp和https://github.com/hasanirtiza/pedestron）。

在这项工作中，我们呈现SEQFormer，这是一个令人沮丧的视频实例分段模型。 SEQFormer遵循Vision变换器的原理，该方法模型视频帧之间的实例关系。然而，我们观察到一个独立的实例查询足以捕获视频中的时间序列，但应该独立地使用每个帧进行注意力机制。为此，SEQFormer在每个帧中定位一个实例，并聚合时间信息以学习视频级实例的强大表示，其用于动态地预测每个帧上的掩模序列。实例跟踪自然地实现而不进行跟踪分支或后处理。在YouTube-VIS数据集上，SEQFormer使用Reset-50个骨干和49.0 AP实现47.4个AP，其中Reset-101骨干，没有响铃和吹口哨。此类成果分别显着超过了以前的最先进的性能4.6和4.4。此外，与最近提出的Swin变压器集成，SEQFormer可以实现59.3的高得多。我们希望SEQFormer可能是一个强大的基线，促进了视频实例分段中的未来研究，同时使用更强大，准确，整洁的模型来实现该字段。代码和预先训练的型号在https://github.com/wjf5203/seqformer上公开使用。

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.

There has been significant progress on pose estimation and increasing interests on pose tracking in recent years. At the same time, the overall algorithm and system complexity increases as well, making the algorithm analysis and comparison more difficult. This work provides simple and effective baseline methods. They are helpful for inspiring and evaluating new ideas for the field. State-of-the-art results are achieved on challenging benchmarks. The code will be available at https://github. com/leoxiaobin/pose.pytorch.

在诸如人类姿态估计的关键点估计任务中，尽管具有显着缺点，但基于热线的回归是主要的方法：Heatmaps本质上遭受量化误差，并且需要过多的计算来产生和后处理。有动力寻找更有效的解决方案，我们提出了一种新的热映射无关声点估计方法，其中各个关键点和空间相关的关键点（即，姿势）被建模为基于密集的单级锚的检测框架内的对象。因此，我们将我们的方法Kapao（发音为“KA-Pow！”）对于关键点并作为对象构成。我们通过同时检测人姿势对象和关键点对象并融合检测来利用两个对象表示的强度来将Kapao应用于单阶段多人人类姿势估算问题。在实验中，我们观察到Kapao明显比以前的方法更快，更准确，这极大地来自热爱处理后处理。此外，在不使用测试时间增强时，精度速度折衷特别有利。我们的大型型号Kapao-L在Microsoft Coco Keypoints验证集上实现了70.6的AP，而无需测试时增强，其比下一个最佳单级模型更准确，4.0 AP更准确。此外，Kapao在重闭塞的存在下擅长。在繁荣试验套上，Kapao-L为一个单级方法实现新的最先进的准确性，AP为68.9。