Enhancing Object Detection Performance for Small Objects through Synthetic Data Generation and Proportional Class-Balancing Technique: A Comparative Study in Industrial Scenarios

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12729v2
• Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:18:18 GMT
• Title: Enhancing Object Detection Performance for Small Objects through Synthetic Data Generation and Proportional Class-Balancing Technique: A Comparative Study in Industrial Scenarios
• Authors: Jibinraj Antony and Vinit Hegiste and Ali Nazeri and Hooman Tavakoli and Snehal Walunj and Christiane Plociennik and Martin Ruskowski
• Abstract summary: Object Detection (OD) has proven to be a significant computer vision method in extracting localized class information. Many of the state-of-the-art (SOTA) OD models perform well on medium and large sized objects, but under perform on small objects. This study presents a novel approach that injects additional data points to improve the performance of the OD models.
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• Abstract: Object Detection (OD) has proven to be a significant computer vision method in extracting localized class information and has multiple applications in the industry. Although many of the state-of-the-art (SOTA) OD models perform well on medium and large sized objects, they seem to under perform on small objects. In most of the industrial use cases, it is difficult to collect and annotate data for small objects, as it is time-consuming and prone to human errors. Additionally, those datasets are likely to be unbalanced and often result in an inefficient model convergence. To tackle this challenge, this study presents a novel approach that injects additional data points to improve the performance of the OD models. Using synthetic data generation, the difficulties in data collection and annotations for small object data points can be minimized and to create a dataset with balanced distribution. This paper discusses the effects of a simple proportional class-balancing technique, to enable better anchor matching of the OD models. A comparison was carried out on the performances of the SOTA OD models: YOLOv5, YOLOv7 and SSD, for combinations of real and synthetic datasets within an industrial use case.

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