25 February 2023 Enhancement-fusion feature pyramid network for object detection
Shifeng Dong, Rujing Wang, Jianming Du, Lin Jiao
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Abstract

Scale variation is one of the challenges of object detection. Most state-of-the-art object detectors depend on feature pyramid networks (FPN) for multiscale learning to deal with this problem, in which feature fusion is an essential operation. However, feature fusion does not sufficiently address the difficulty of the detection task. This paper presents an enhancement-fusion feature pyramid network (EFPN) to obtain reliable object representations for object detectors. Specifically, it contains a feature enhancement module (FEM) and a bottom-up path module (BPM). The FEM is used to eliminate the negative impact of the uneven distribution of object scales on the model performance. Then, a BPM is proposed to address the fusion inconsistency in the FPN. Additionally, an attention module (Ac) is added to eliminate the information loss in the bottom-up aggregation process. EFPN is evaluated by combining it with state-of-the-art detection methods. Extensive experimental results on two datasets MS-COCO and VOC2007 demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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Shifeng Dong, Rujing Wang, Jianming Du, and Lin Jiao "Enhancement-fusion feature pyramid network for object detection," Journal of Electronic Imaging 32(1), 013045 (25 February 2023). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.32.1.013045
Received: 1 August 2022; Accepted: 7 February 2023; Published: 25 February 2023
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KEYWORDS
Object detection

Beam propagation method

Finite element methods

Feature fusion

Education and training

Semantics

Convolution

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