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1. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   VarifocalNet: An IoU-aware Dense Object Detector

   Zhang, Wang, Dayoub and Sünderhauf · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2021

   The paper proposes VarifocalNet, a dense object detector that ranks candidate detections using an IoU-aware score, and reports it outperforms a strong baseline and reaches 55.1 AP on COCO test-dev.

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   1. UncheckedOn MS COCO, the VarifocalNet detector beats a strong baseline by about 2.0 AP (average precision) across different backbone networks.“Extensive experiments on MS COCO show that our VFNet consistently surpasses the strong baseline by $\sim$2.0 AP with different backbones.”