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What is: FreeAnchor?

SourceFreeAnchor: Learning to Match Anchors for Visual Object Detection
Year2000
Data SourceCC BY-SA - https://paperswithcode.com

FreeAnchor is an anchor supervision method for object detection. Many CNN-based object detectors assign anchors for ground-truth objects under the restriction of object-anchor Intersection-over-Unit (IoU). In contrast, FreeAnchor is a learning-to-match approach that breaks the IoU restriction, allowing objects to match anchors in a flexible manner. It updates hand-crafted anchor assignment to free anchor matching by formulating detector training as a maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) procedure. FreeAnchor targets at learning features which best explain a class of objects in terms of both classification and localization.