Object detection and instance recognition play a central role in many AI applications like autonomous driving, video surveillance and medical image analysis. However, training object detection models on large scale datasets remains computationally expensive and time consuming. This paper presents an efficient and open source object detection framework called SimpleDet which enables the training of state-of-the-art detection models on consumer grade hardware at large scale. SimpleDet supports up-to-date detection models with best practice. SimpleDet also supports distributed training with near linear scaling out of box. Codes, examples and documents of SimpleDet can be found at https://github.com/tusimple/simpledet .
@article{arxiv.1903.05831,
title = {SimpleDet: A Simple and Versatile Distributed Framework for Object Detection and Instance Recognition},
author = {Yuntao Chen and Chenxia Han and Yanghao Li and Zehao Huang and Yi Jiang and Naiyan Wang and Zhaoxiang Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.05831},
year = {2019}
}