Advanced Deep Learning with Python

Object detection with Faster R-CNN

In this section, we'll discuss a two-stage object detection algorithm called Faster R-CNN (Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks, https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.01497). It is an evolution of the earlier two-stage detectors Fast R-CNN (https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.08083) and R-CNN (Rich feature hierarchies for accurate object detection and semantic segmentation, https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2524).

We'll start by outlining the general structure of Faster R-CNN, which is displayed in the following diagram:

The structure of Faster R-CNN; source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.01497 ...