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Adaptive Training Sample Selection

ATSS

16 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

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Adaptive Training Sample Selection, or ATSS, is a method to automatically select positive and negative samples according to statistical characteristics of object. It bridges the gap between anchor-based and anchor-free detectors.

For each ground-truth box g on the image, we first find out its candidate positive samples. As described in Line $3$ to $6$, on each pyramid level, we select k anchor boxes whose center are closest to the center of g based on L2 distance. Supposing there are ℒ feature pyramid levels, the ground-truth box g will have k×ℒ candidate positive samples. After that, we compute the IoU between these candidates and the ground-truth g as 𝒟_g in Line $7$, whose mean and standard deviation are computed as m_g and v_g in Line $8$ and Line $9$. With these statistics, the IoU threshold for this ground-truth g is obtained as t_g=m_g+v_g in Line $10$. Finally, we select these candidates whose IoU are greater than or equal to the threshold t_g as final positive samples in Line $11$ to $15$.

Notably ATSS also limits the positive samples' center to the ground-truth box as shown in Line $12$. Besides, if an anchor box is assigned to multiple ground-truth boxes, the one with the highest IoU will be selected. The rest are negative samples.

Source: Bridging the Gap Between Anchor-based and Anchor-free...See Code · sfzhang15/ATSS

Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

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TaskPapers
Object Detection12
object-detection10
Object6
Instance Segmentation3
Semantic Segmentation3
regression3
Decoder2
Dense Object Detection2
Real-time Instance Segmentation2
Segmentation2
2D Object Detection1
CPU1
Cell Detection1
Classification1
Disentanglement1
GPU1
General Classification1
Quantization1
Video Understanding1
set matching1

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with ATSS: 2019 to 2024, peak 4 4 0 2019: 1 paper 2019 2020: 4 papers 2020 2021: 4 papers 2021 2022: 4 papers 2022 2023: 2 papers 2023 2024: 1 paper 2024
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