Proposal-Free Fully Convolutional Network: Object Detection Based on a Box Map

Region proposal-based detectors, such as Region-Convolutional Neural Networks (R-CNNs), Fast R-CNNs, Faster R-CNNs, and Region-Based Fully Convolutional Networks (R-FCNs), employ a two-stage process involving region proposal generation followed by classification. This approach is effective but compu...

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Published in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2024-05, Vol.24 (11), p.3529
Main Authors: Su, Zhihao, Adam, Afzan, Nasrudin, Mohammad Faidzul, Prabuwono, Anton Satria
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accuracy
Algorithms
Boxes
Classification
computer vision
Deep learning
deep learning algorithms
Detectors
Efficiency
Innovations
Methods
object detection
proposal-free detector
Proposals
Sensors
Surveillance
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Summary:Region proposal-based detectors, such as Region-Convolutional Neural Networks (R-CNNs), Fast R-CNNs, Faster R-CNNs, and Region-Based Fully Convolutional Networks (R-FCNs), employ a two-stage process involving region proposal generation followed by classification. This approach is effective but computationally intensive and typically slower than proposal-free methods. Therefore, region proposal-free detectors are becoming popular to balance accuracy and speed. This paper proposes a proposal-free, fully convolutional network (PF-FCN) that outperforms other state-of-the-art, proposal-free methods. Unlike traditional region proposal-free methods, PF-FCN can generate a "box map" based on regression training techniques. This box map comprises a set of vectors, each designed to produce bounding boxes corresponding to the positions of objects in the input image. The channel and spatial contextualized sub-network are further designed to learn a "box map". In comparison to renowned proposal-free detectors such as CornerNet, CenterNet, and You Look Only Once (YOLO), PF-FCN utilizes a fully convolutional, single-pass method. By reducing the need for fully connected layers and filtering center points, the method considerably reduces the number of trained parameters and optimizes the scalability across varying input sizes. Evaluations of benchmark datasets suggest the effectiveness of PF-FCN: the proposed model achieved an mAP of 89.6% on PASCAL VOC 2012 and 71.7% on MS COCO, which are higher than those of the baseline Fully Convolutional One-Stage Detector (FCOS) and other classical proposal-free detectors. The results prove the significance of proposal-free detectors in both practical applications and future research.
ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s24113529