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Adapted Center and Scale Prediction: More Stable and More Accurate

20 Feb 2020arXiv:2002.09053archive 2025-07-28

Wenhao Wang

Pedestrian detection benefits from deep learning technology and gains rapid development in recent years. Most of detectors follow general object detection frame, i.e. default boxes and two-stage process. Recently, anchor-free and one-stage detectors have been introduced into this area. However, their accuracies are unsatisfactory. Therefore, in order to enjoy the simplicity of anchor-free detectors and the accuracy of two-stage ones simultaneously, we propose some adaptations based on a detector, Center and Scale Prediction(CSP). The main contributions of our paper are: (1) We improve the robustness of CSP and make it easier to train. (2) We propose a novel method to predict width, namely compressing width. (3) We achieve the second best performance on CityPersons benchmark, i.e. 9.3% log-average miss rate(MR) on reasonable set, 8.7% MR on partial set and 5.6% MR on bare set, which shows an anchor-free and one-stage detector can still have high accuracy. (4) We explore some capabilities of Switchable Normalization which are not mentioned in its original paper.

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Object DetectionPedestrian Detectionobject-detection

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Pedestrian Detection CityPersons ACSP Bare MR^-2 5.6 #7 of 22 Archive leaderboard report
Pedestrian Detection CityPersons ACSP Heavy MR^-2 46.3 #7 of 22 Archive leaderboard report
Pedestrian Detection CityPersons ACSP Partial MR^-2 8.7 #7 of 22 Archive leaderboard report
Pedestrian Detection CityPersons ACSP Reasonable MR^-2 9.3 #7 of 22 Archive leaderboard report
Pedestrian Detection CityPersons ACSP + EuroCity Persons Bare MR^-2 4.9 #22 of 22 Archive leaderboard report
Pedestrian Detection CityPersons ACSP + EuroCity Persons Heavy MR^-2 42.5 #22 of 22 Archive leaderboard report
Pedestrian Detection CityPersons ACSP + EuroCity Persons Partial MR^-2 6.9 #22 of 22 Archive leaderboard report

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Batch NormalizationInstance NormalizationLayer NormalizationSoftmaxSwitchable Normalization

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