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Improving object detection quality with structural constraints.

Zihao Rong¹, Shaofan Wang¹, Dehui Kong¹

¹Beijing Key Laboratory of Multimedia and Intelligent Software Technology, Beijing Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China.

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Structural Constraint improves object detection by supervising feature learning with Fisher Loss and Equi-proportion Loss. This method optimizes feature distribution, enhancing detection accuracy on benchmark datasets.

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Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Deep Learning

Background:

Object detection networks often suffer from suboptimal training with simple "classification loss + localization loss" objectives.
Improving network feature learning through additional constraints can significantly enhance object detection performance.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce a novel Structural Constraint method for improving object detection quality.
To enhance the discriminative power of network features by imposing consistency between feature similarities and ground truth label similarities.

Main Methods:

Proposed Structural Constraint supervises feature learning in classification and localization branches using Fisher Loss and Equi-proportion Loss, respectively.
Ensures feature similarities of training sample pairs align with ground truth label similarities.
Introduced Proxy Feature design for universal application across object detection architectures.

Main Results:

Structural Constraint effectively optimizes the distribution of object class instances in the network feature space.
Demonstrated improved object detection results due to optimized feature representation.
Achieved superior performance compared to modern detectors when applied to baseline networks.

Conclusions:

Structural Constraint offers a robust mechanism for enhancing object detection by refining feature learning.
The method provides significant improvements in detection quality on challenging datasets like MSCOCO2017 and KITTI.
Structural Constraint is a versatile technique applicable to various object detection architectures.