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PDNet by Partial Deep Convolution: A Better Lightweight Detector

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Wei Wang
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Yuanze Meng *
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Han Li
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Shun Li
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Chenghong Zhang
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Guanghui Zhang
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Weimin Lei *
DOI:10.3390/electronics14030591delete
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Abstract

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Model lightweighting is significant in edge computing and mobile devices. Current studies on fast network design mainly focuses on model computation compression and speedup. Many models aim to compress models by dealing with redundant feature maps. However, most of these methods choose to preserve the feature maps with simple manipulations and do not effectively reduce redundant feature maps. This paper proposes a new convolution module, PDConv, which compresses redundant feature maps to reduce network complexity and increase network width to maintain accuracy. PDConv (Partial Deep Convolution) outperforms traditional methods in handling redundant feature maps, particularly in deep networks. Its FLOPs are comparable to deep separable convolution but with higher accuracy. This paper proposes PDBottleNeck and PDC2f (Partial Deep CSPDarknet53 to 2-Stage FPN) and build the lightweight network PDNet for experimental validation using the PASCAL VOC dataset. Compared to the popular HorNet, our method achieves an improvement of more than 25% in FLOPs and 1.8% in mAP50:95 accuracy. On the CoCo2017 dataset, our large PDNet achieves a 0.5% improvement in mAP75 and lower FLOPs than the latest RepVit.
Keywords:
PDConv
PDNet
lightweight
object detection

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Zhejiang Univ Technol
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