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Balanced single-shot object detection using cross-context attention-guided network

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Shanshan Du
冯瑞 (Rui Feng)
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Yuejie Zhang *
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Huayu Li
T
Tianbi Liu
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Lin Zheng
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Weiguo Fan
DOI:10.1016/j.patcog.2021.108258delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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In real-world application scenarios, object detection usually encounters two technical challenges, i.e., high accuracy and high speed. Although the latest detection frameworks based on anchor-free detection have achieved outstanding performance, they cannot be widely used in real-world scenarios due to their model complexity and slow speed. In this paper, inspired by cross-context attention mechanism of human visual systems, we propose a light but effective single-shot detection framework using Cross-context Attention-guided Network (CCAGNet) to balance the accuracy and speed. CCAGNet uses attention-guided mechanism to highlight the interaction of object-synergy regions, and suppresses non-object-synergy regions by combining Cross-context Attention Mechanism (CCAM), Receptive Field Attention Mechanism (RFAM), and Semantic Fusion Attention Mechanism (SFAM). The main contribution of our work includes establishing a novel attention mechanism that takes the context information of channel, spatial, cross and adjacent-regions into consideration simultaneously. Extensive experiments demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of our method on the public benchmark datasets. To the best of our knowledge, CCAGNet obtains the state-of-the-art performance on both PascalVOC and MSCOCO with the excellent trade-off between accuracy and speed among single-shot detectors. Especially, the Average Precision (AP) metric is significantly improved by 17.0% on small object detection on MSCOCO. (c) 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Keywords:
Cross-context attention-guided network
Cross-context attention mechanism
Receptive field attention mechanism
Semantic fusion attention mechanism
Accuracy and speed balance

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Pattern Recognition cover
Pattern Recognition
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University of Iowa
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fudan university
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