CornerNet

Anchor-free detection using top-left and bottom-right corner heatmaps

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Bounding box coordinates as top-left and bottom-right corner. Uses hourglass network backbone with corner pooling.

Issues

  • Many incorrect bounding boxes (especially small) — too many False Positives
  • Hard to infer the class of the box when network focuses on boundaries