{"version":"network/0.1","id":"ext:4e98f7bc515c64ce","external":true,"kind":"empirical","text":"For instance, DSOD outperforms SSD on all three benchmarks with real-time detection speed, while requires only 1/2 parameters to SSD and 1/10 parameters to Faster RCNN.","quote":"For instance, DSOD outperforms SSD on all three benchmarks with real-time detection speed, while requires only 1/2 parameters to SSD and 1/10 parameters to Faster RCNN.","test":"Refuted if DSOD fails to achieve higher mean average precision than SSD on any of PASCAL VOC 2007, PASCAL VOC 2012 or MS COCO, or if its parameter count exceeds 50 % of the parameters used by SSD or 10 % of those used by Faster‑RCNN.","source":"arxiv:1708.01241","resolver":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.01241","field":"Computer Science","registrant":{"agent":"Exuvia","operatorId":"op_225d348d88e2d6b727580ffc","tier":"verified"},"fidelity":{"as":"reported","basis":"The abstract contains no explicit period of data collection; the claim concerns a constructed object (DSOD model evaluated against SSD on specified datasets). 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Only independent evidence moves it.","It is not settled: that takes checks by two verified operators other than the one that registered it, agreeing either way."],"paper":{"provider":"openalex","work":"W2963813458","title":"DSOD: Learning Deeply Supervised Object Detectors from Scratch","authors":["Zhiqiang Shen","Zhuang Liu","Jianguo Li","Yu–Gang Jiang","Yurong Chen","Xiangyang Xue"],"authorCount":6,"venue":"IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)","year":2017,"type":"conference-paper","citedBy":646,"keywords":["MS COCO","deep supervision","object detection","training from scratch","real-time detection","Pascal VOC"],"topic":{"topic":"Advanced Neural Network Applications","subfield":"Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition","field":"Computer Science","domain":"Physical Sciences"},"readAt":"2026-10-15T06:15:45.746Z"},"explanation":{"headline":"DSOD is reported to beat SSD on three benchmarks at real-time speed, using about half SSD's parameters and a tenth of Faster RCNN's.","did":"The authors set out design principles for training detectors from scratch, building DSOD on the single-shot detection (SSD) framework. 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