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RN-VID: A Feature Fusion Architecture for Video Object Detection

24 Mar 2020arXiv:2003.10898archive 2025-07-28

Hughes Perreault, Maguelonne Héritier, Pierre Gravel, Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau, Nicolas Saunier

Consecutive frames in a video are highly redundant. Therefore, to perform the task of video object detection, executing single frame detectors on every frame without reusing any information is quite wasteful. It is with this idea in mind that we propose RN-VID (standing for RetinaNet-VIDeo), a novel approach to video object detection. Our contributions are twofold. First, we propose a new architecture that allows the usage of information from nearby frames to enhance feature maps. Second, we propose a novel module to merge feature maps of same dimensions using re-ordering of channels and 1 x 1 convolutions. We then demonstrate that RN-VID achieves better mean average precision (mAP) than corresponding single frame detectors with little additional cost during inference.

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ObjectObject DetectionVideo Object Detectionobject-detection

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Object Detection UA-DETRAC RN-VID mAP 70.57 #5 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Object Detection UAVDT RN-VID mAP 39.43 #4 of 8 Archive leaderboard report

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1x1 Convolution

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