Weighted Feature Pyramid Networks for Object Detection

Abstract

Feature Pyramid Networks (FPN) is a popular feature extraction. However, FPN and its variants do not investigate the influence of resolution information and semantic information in the object detection. Thus, FPN and its variants cannot detect some objects on challenging images. In this paper, based on FPN, we propose to use gaussian kernel function to assign different weight values to semantic information and resolution information for different images in the object detection. The proposed method, is called a Weighted Feature Pyramid Network (WFPN), and shows significant improvement over the traditional feature pyramids in several applications. Using WFPN in Faster R-CNN system, the proposed method achieves better performance on the PASCAL detection benchmark.