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Deformable Convolutional Networks
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are inherently limited to model
geometric transformations due to the fixed geometric structures in its building
modules. In this work, we introduce two new modules to enhance the
transformation modeling capacity 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 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 effectiveness of our
approach on sophisticated vision tasks of object detection and semantic
segmentation. The code would be released
Receptive Field Block Net for Accurate and Fast Object Detection
Current top-performing object detectors depend on deep CNN backbones, such as
ResNet-101 and Inception, benefiting from their powerful feature
representations but suffering from high computational costs. Conversely, some
lightweight model based detectors fulfil real time processing, while their
accuracies are often criticized. In this paper, we explore an alternative to
build a fast and accurate detector by strengthening lightweight features using
a hand-crafted mechanism. Inspired by the structure of Receptive Fields (RFs)
in human visual systems, we propose a novel RF Block (RFB) module, which takes
the relationship between the size and eccentricity of RFs into account, to
enhance the feature discriminability and robustness. We further assemble RFB to
the top of SSD, constructing the RFB Net detector. To evaluate its
effectiveness, experiments are conducted on two major benchmarks and the
results show that RFB Net is able to reach the performance of advanced very
deep detectors while keeping the real-time speed. Code is available at
https://github.com/ruinmessi/RFBNet.Comment: Accepted by ECCV 201
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