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YOLOv4: Optimal Speed and Accuracy of Object Detection (arxiv.org)
3 points by readicculus on Apr 24, 2020 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: It bundles a tested mix of network and training tweaks—smarter skip connections, mosaic photo-stitching, a better box-overlap loss—into one fast object detector. On COCO images it hit 43.5% accuracy at about 65 frames a second, beating earlier real-time detectors.

Abstract

There are a huge number of features which are said to improve Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) accuracy. Practical testing of combinations of such features on large datasets, and theoretical justification of the result, is required. Some features operate on certain models exclusively and for certain problems exclusively, or only for small-scale datasets; while some features, such as batch-normalization and residual-connections, are applicable to the majority of models, tasks, and datasets. We assume that such universal features include Weighted-Residual-Connections (WRC), Cross-Stage-Partial-connections (CSP), Cross mini-Batch Normalization (CmBN), Self-adversarial-training (SAT) and Mish-activation. We use new features: WRC, CSP, CmBN, SAT, Mish activation, Mosaic data augmentation, CmBN, DropBlock regularization, and CIoU loss, and combine some of them to achieve state-of-the-art results: 43.5% AP (65.7% AP50) for the MS COCO dataset at a realtime speed of ~65 FPS on Tesla V100. Source code is at https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet

Alexey Bochkovskiy, Chien-Yao Wang, Hong-Yuan Mark Liao
arXiv:2004.10934 · cs.CV, eess.IV · submitted Apr 23, 2020
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