Confidence-driven Bounding Box Localization for Small Object Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01803v1
• Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 09:19:08 GMT
• Title: Confidence-driven Bounding Box Localization for Small Object Detection
• Authors: Huixin Sun, Baochang Zhang, Yanjing Li, Xianbin Cao
• Abstract summary: We present Confidence-driven Bounding Box localization (C-BBL) method to rectify the gradients. C-BBL quantizes continuous labels into grids and formulates two-hot ground truth labels. We demonstrate the generalizability of C-BBL to different label systems and effectiveness for high resolution detection.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Despite advancements in generic object detection, there remains a performance gap in detecting small objects compared to normal-scale objects. We for the first time observe that existing bounding box regression methods tend to produce distorted gradients for small objects and result in less accurate localization. To address this issue, we present a novel Confidence-driven Bounding Box Localization (C-BBL) method to rectify the gradients. C-BBL quantizes continuous labels into grids and formulates two-hot ground truth labels. In prediction, the bounding box head generates a confidence distribution over the grids. Unlike the bounding box regression paradigms in conventional detectors, we introduce a classification-based localization objective through cross entropy between ground truth and predicted confidence distribution, generating confidence-driven gradients. Additionally, C-BBL describes a uncertainty loss based on distribution entropy in labels and predictions to further reduce the uncertainty in small object localization. The method is evaluated on multiple detectors using three object detection benchmarks and consistently improves baseline detectors, achieving state-of-the-art performance. We also demonstrate the generalizability of C-BBL to different label systems and effectiveness for high resolution detection, which validates its prospect as a general solution.

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