Paper ID | IVMSP-12.1 | ||
Paper Title | SM+: Refined Scale Match for Tiny Person Detection | ||
Authors | Nan Jiang, Xuehui Yu, Xiaoke Peng, Yuqi Gong, Zhenjun Han, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China | ||
Session | IVMSP-12: Image & Video Interpretation and Understanding | ||
Location | Gather.Town | ||
Session Time: | Wednesday, 09 June, 14:00 - 14:45 | ||
Presentation Time: | Wednesday, 09 June, 14:00 - 14:45 | ||
Presentation | Poster | ||
Topic | Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing: [IVTEC] Image & Video Processing Techniques | ||
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Abstract | Detecting tiny objects (e.g., less than 20 X 20 pixels) in large-scale images is an important yet open problem. Modern CNN-based detectors are challenged by the scale mismatch between the dataset for network pre-training and the target dataset for detector training. In this paper, we investigate the scale alignment between pre-training and target datasets, and propose a new refined Scale Match method (termed SM+) for tiny person detection. SM+ improves the scale match from image level to instance level, and effectively promotes the similarity between pre-training and target dataset. Moreover, considering SM+ possibly destroys the image structure, a new probabilistic structure inpainting (PSI) method is proposed for the background processing. Experiments conducted across various detectors show that SM+ noticeably improves the performance on TinyPerson, and outperforms the state-of-the-art detectors with a significant margin. |