A Convnet for Non maximum Suppression
Non maximum suppression (NMS) is used in virtually all state of the art object detection pipelines. While essential object detection ingredients such as features, classifiers, and proposal methods have been extensively researched surprisingly little work has aimed to systematically address NMS. The de facto standard for NMS is based on greedy clustering with a fixed distance threshold, which forces to trade off recall versus precision. We propose a convnet designed to perform NMS of a given set of detections. We report experiments on a synthetic setup, crowded pedestrian scenes, and for general person detection. Our approach overcomes the intrinsic limitations of greedy NMS, obtaining better recall and precision.
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