Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks
Microsoft Research
arXiv:1506.01497 [cs.CV], (4 Jun 2015)
@article{ren2015faster,
title={Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks},
author={Ren, Shaoqing and He, Kaiming and Girshick, Ross and Sun, Jian},
year={2015},
month={jun},
archivePrefix={"arXiv"},
primaryClass={cs.CV}
}
State-of-the-art object detection networks depend on region proposal algorithms to hypothesize object locations. Advances like SPPnet and Fast R-CNN have reduced the running time of these detection networks, exposing region proposal computation as a bottleneck. In this work, we introduce a Region Proposal Network (RPN) that shares full-image convolutional features with the detection network, thus enabling nearly cost-free region proposals. An RPN is a fully-convolutional network that simultaneously predicts object bounds and objectness scores at each position. RPNs are trained end-to-end to generate high-quality region proposals, which are used by Fast R-CNN for detection. With a simple alternating optimization, RPN and Fast R-CNN can be trained to share convolutional features. For the very deep VGG-16 model, our detection system has a frame rate of 5fps (including all steps) on a GPU, while achieving state-of-the-art object detection accuracy on PASCAL VOC 2007 (73.2% mAP) and 2012 (70.4% mAP) using 300 proposals per image. The code will be released.
June 7, 2015 by hgpu
