Dynamic Object Detection Algorithm Based on Lightweight Shared Feature Pyramid

Abstract

Current object detection algorithms perform inference on all samples at a fixed computational cost in the inference stage, which wastes computing resources and is not flexible. To solve this problem, a dynamic object detection algorithm based on a lightweight shared feature pyramid is proposed, which performs adaptive inference according to computing resources and the difficulty of samples, greatly improving the efficiency of inference. Specifically, a lightweight shared feature pyramid network and lightweight detection head is proposed to reduce the amount of computation and parameters in the feature fusion part and detection head of the dynamic object detection model. On the PASCAL VOC dataset, under the two conditions of “anytime prediction” and “budgeted batch object detection”, the performance, computation amount and parameter amount are better than the dynamic object detection models constructed by networks such as ResNet, DenseNet and MSDNet.

Keywords

• object detection
• adaptive inference
• shared feature pyramid