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Learning multi-scale representations is the common strategy to tackle object scale variation in dense prediction tasks. Although existing feature pyramid networks have greatly advanced visual recognition, inherent design defects inhibit…
Learning pyramidal feature representations is crucial for recognizing object instances at different scales. Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) is the classic architecture to build a feature pyramid with high-level semantics throughout. However,…
Current state-of-the-art vision models often utilize feature pyramids to extract multi-scale information, with the Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) being one of the most widely used classic architectures. However, traditional FPNs and their…
In this paper, we present an implicit feature pyramid network (i-FPN) for object detection. Existing FPNs stack several cross-scale blocks to obtain large receptive field. We propose to use an implicit function, recently introduced in deep…
Dense pixel matching is required for many computer vision algorithms such as disparity, optical flow or scene flow estimation. Feature Pyramid Networks (FPN) have proven to be a suitable feature extractor for CNN-based dense matching tasks.…
As one of the prevalent components, Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) is widely used in current object detection models for improving multi-scale object detection performance. However, its feature fusion mode is still in a misaligned and local…
Feature pyramid network (FPN) has been an effective framework to extract multi-scale features in object detection. However, current FPN-based methods mostly suffer from the intrinsic flaw of channel reduction, which brings about the loss of…
Current state-of-the-art detectors typically exploit feature pyramid to detect objects at different scales. Among them, FPN is one of the representative works that build a feature pyramid by multi-scale features summation. However, the…
With the increasing availability of high-resolution remote sensing and aerial imagery, oriented object detection has become a key capability for geographic information updating, maritime surveillance, and disaster response. However, it…
Feature pyramid architecture has been broadly adopted in object detection and segmentation to deal with multi-scale problem. However, in this paper we show that the capacity of the architecture has not been fully explored due to the…
Semantic segmentation is a pixel-level prediction task to classify each pixel of the input image. Deep learning models, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have been extremely successful in achieving excellent performances in this…
Ultrasound (US) image segmentation is an active research area that requires real-time and highly accurate analysis in many scenarios. The detect-to-segment (DTS) frameworks have been recently proposed to balance accuracy and efficiency.…
Feature pyramid network (FPN) based models, which fuse the semantics and salient details in a progressive manner, have been proven highly effective in salient object detection. However, it is observed that these models often generate…
Semantic segmentation using fine-resolution remotely sensed images plays a critical role in many practical applications, such as urban planning, environmental protection, natural and anthropogenic landscape monitoring, etc. However, the…
Although much significant progress has been made in the research field of object detection with deep learning, there still exists a challenging task for the objects with small size, which is notably pronounced in UAV-captured images.…
Feature pyramids are a basic component in recognition systems for detecting objects at different scales. But recent deep learning object detectors have avoided pyramid representations, in part because they are compute and memory intensive.…
The visual feature pyramid has proven its effectiveness and efficiency in target detection tasks. Yet, current methodologies tend to overly emphasize inter-layer feature interaction, neglecting the crucial aspect of intra-layer feature…
Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have achieved great success in monocular depth estimation (MDE). However, few existing works take the contributions for MDE of different levels feature maps into account, leading to inaccurate…
Feature pyramids are widely exploited in many detectors to solve the scale variation problem for object detection. In this paper, we first investigate the Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) architectures and briefly categorize them into three…
Feature pyramid network (FPN) is a critical component in modern object detection frameworks. The performance gain in most of the existing FPN variants is mainly attributed to the increase of computational burden. An attempt to enhance the…