Journal
PATTERN RECOGNITION
Volume 138, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2023.109418
Keywords
Object detection; Classification ambiguity; Refinement -aware classification
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In anchor-based detectors, classification ambiguity caused by the lack of correlation between classification and localization tasks is investigated. A localization-classification sequence detector (LCSDet) is proposed to bridge this gap, with refinement-aware classification branch and assignment. The LCSDet effectively mitigates the classification ambiguity and achieves stable improvement across different baselines.
In anchor-based detectors, the confidence scores and label-assignment results for the classification task are determined by the unrefined anchors rather than the final-refined boxes, which causes classifica-tion ambiguity due to the lack of correlation between the classification and localization tasks. In this paper, we investigate the classification ambiguity thoroughly via extensive experiments, and present the localization-classification sequence detector (LCSDet) that performs localization and classification in or-der, bridging the gap between them. To achieve this, the refinement-aware (RA) classification branch and RA assignment are proposed in LCSDet. In inference, the RA classification branch rectifies the fea-ture misalignment and directly classifies the refined anchors. During training, the RA assignment tackles the training instability, narrows the location-quality gap and assigns the refined anchors to ground-truth objects. Comprehensive experiments indicate that the LCSDet can effectively mitigate the classification ambiguity and achieve stable improvement across different baselines.(c) 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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