2020/02/04 by Hefei Ling, Yangyang Qin, Ling, Hefei +7
Computer Science · #Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques #Advanced Neural Network Applications #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning #FOS: Computer and information sciences #cs.CV
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2002.01205
Accepted at ICASSP 2020
arxiv created 2020/02/04 · openalex publication_date 2020/02/04 · arxiv updated 2020/02/05 · openalex created_date 2020/02/14 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
It is well known that attention mechanisms can effectively improve the performance of many CNNs including object detectors. Instead of refining feature maps prevalently, we reduce the prohibitive computational complexity by a novel attempt at attention. Therefore, we introduce an efficient object detector called Selective Convolutional Network (SCN), which selectively calculates only on the locations that contain meaningful and conducive information. The basic idea is to exclude the insignificant background areas, which effectively reduces the computational cost especially during the feature extraction. To solve it, we design an elaborate structure with negligible overheads to guide the network where to look next. It's end-to-end trainable and easy-embedding. Without additional segmentation datasets, we explores two different train strategies including direct supervision and indirect supervision. Extensive experiments assess the performance on PASCAL VOC2007 and MS COCO detection datasets. Results show that SSD and Pelee integrated with our method averagely reduce the calculations in a range of 1/5 and 1/3 with slight loss of accuracy, demonstrating the feasibility of SCN.