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One-to-one set matching is a key design for DETR to establish its end-to-end capability, so that object detection does not require a hand-crafted NMS (non-maximum suppression) to remove duplicate detections. This end-to-end signature is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Ding Jia , Yuhui Yuan , Haodi He , Xiaopei Wu , Haojun Yu , Weihong Lin , Lei Sun , Chao Zhang , Han Hu

The DEtection TRansformer (DETR) is a powerful end-to-end object detector, yet its one-to-one matching strategy suffers from slow convergence and low recall. A common approach to address this issue is to use one-to-many label assignment to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Chanho Lee , Seunghee Koh , Yunho Jeon , Junmo Kim

We present a new method that views object detection as a direct set prediction problem. Our approach streamlines the detection pipeline, effectively removing the need for many hand-designed components like a non-maximum suppression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Nicolas Carion , Francisco Massa , Gabriel Synnaeve , Nicolas Usunier , Alexander Kirillov , Sergey Zagoruyko

The astounding performance of transformers in natural language processing (NLP) has motivated researchers to explore their applications in computer vision tasks. DEtection TRansformer (DETR) introduces transformers to object detection tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Tahira Shehzadi , Khurram Azeem Hashmi , Didier Stricker , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

In this paper, we are interested in Detection Transformer (DETR), an end-to-end object detection approach based on a transformer encoder-decoder architecture without hand-crafted postprocessing, such as NMS. Inspired by Conditional DETR, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Xiaokang Chen , Fangyun Wei , Gang Zeng , Jingdong Wang

Recent DEtection TRansformer (DETR) based frameworks have achieved remarkable success in end-to-end object detection. However, the reliance on the Hungarian algorithm for bipartite matching between queries and ground truths introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Shoumeng Qiu , Xinrun Li , Yang Long

Dense object detection is widely used in automatic driving, video surveillance, and other fields. This paper focuses on the challenging task of dense object detection. Currently, detection methods based on greedy algorithms, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Yueming Huang , Chenrui Ma , Hao Zhou , Hao Wu , Guowu Yuan

Detection Transformers (DETR) formulate object detection as a set prediction problem and enable end-to-end training without post-processing. However, object queries in DETR interact through symmetric self-attention, which enforces uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ye Zhang , Qi Chen , Wenyou Huang , Rui Liu , Zhengjian Kang

The Detection Transformer (DETR), by incorporating the Hungarian algorithm, has significantly simplified the matching process in object detection tasks. This algorithm facilitates optimal one-to-one matching of predicted bounding boxes to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Masoumeh Zareapoor , Pourya Shamsolmoali , Huiyu Zhou , Yue Lu , Salvador García

Despite the promising results, existing oriented object detection methods usually involve heuristically designed rules, e.g., RRoI generation, rotated NMS. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end framework for oriented object detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Qiang Zhou , Chaohui Yu , Zhibin Wang , Fan Wang

Transformer-based object detectors (DETR) have shown significant performance across machine vision tasks, ultimately in object detection. This detector is based on a self-attention mechanism along with the transformer encoder-decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Zhao Ning Zou , Yuhang Zhang , Robert Wijaya

DETR is a recently proposed Transformer-based method which views object detection as a set prediction problem and achieves state-of-the-art performance but demands extra-long training time to converge. In this paper, we investigate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Zhiqing Sun , Shengcao Cao , Yiming Yang , Kris Kitani

Detection transformer (DETR) relies on one-to-one assignment, assigning one ground-truth object to one prediction, for end-to-end detection without NMS post-processing. It is known that one-to-many assignment, assigning one ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Qiang Chen , Xiaokang Chen , Jian Wang , Shan Zhang , Kun Yao , Haocheng Feng , Junyu Han , Errui Ding , Gang Zeng , Jingdong Wang

We analyze the DETR-based framework on semi-supervised object detection (SSOD) and observe that (1) the one-to-one assignment strategy generates incorrect matching when the pseudo ground-truth bounding box is inaccurate, leading to training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Jiacheng Zhang , Xiangru Lin , Wei Zhang , Kuo Wang , Xiao Tan , Junyu Han , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang , Guanbin Li

This paper is concerned with the matching stability problem across different decoder layers in DEtection TRansformers (DETR). We point out that the unstable matching in DETR is caused by a multi-optimization path problem, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Shilong Liu , Tianhe Ren , Jiayu Chen , Zhaoyang Zeng , Hao Zhang , Feng Li , Hongyang Li , Jun Huang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Lei Zhang

The DEtection TRansformer (DETR) opened new possibilities for object detection by modeling it as a translation task: converting image features into object-level representations. Previous works typically add expensive modules to DETR to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Pierre-François De Plaen , Nicola Marinello , Marc Proesmans , Tinne Tuytelaars , Luc Van Gool

Detection Transformer (DETR) has redefined object detection by casting it as a set prediction task within an end-to-end framework. Despite its elegance, DETR and its variants still rely on fixed learnable queries and suffer from severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zhengjian Kang , Jun Zhuang , Kangtong Mo , Qi Chen , Rui Liu , Ye Zhang

The DETR object detection approach applies the transformer encoder and decoder architecture to detect objects and achieves promising performance. In this paper, we present a simple approach to address the main problem of DETR, the slow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Seyed Mehdi Iranmanesh , Xiaotong Chen , Kuo-Chin Lien

Detection Transformers (DETR) have recently set new benchmarks in object detection. However, their performance in detecting rotated objects lags behind established oriented object detectors. Our analysis identifies a key observation: the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Hakjin Lee , MinKi Song , Jamyoung Koo , Junghoon Seo

DETR has been recently proposed to eliminate the need for many hand-designed components in object detection while demonstrating good performance. However, it suffers from slow convergence and limited feature spatial resolution, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Xizhou Zhu , Weijie Su , Lewei Lu , Bin Li , Xiaogang Wang , Jifeng Dai
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