Implicit Feature Pyramid Network for Object Detection

25 Dec 2020  ·  Tiancai Wang, Xiangyu Zhang, Jian Sun ·

In this paper, we present an implicit feature pyramid network (i-FPN) for object detection. Existing FPNs stack several cross-scale blocks to obtain large receptive field. We propose to use an implicit function, recently introduced in deep equilibrium model (DEQ), to model the transformation of FPN. We develop a residual-like iteration to updates the hidden states efficiently. Experimental results on MS COCO dataset show that i-FPN can significantly boost detection performance compared to baseline detectors with ResNet-50-FPN: +3.4, +3.2, +3.5, +4.2, +3.2 mAP on RetinaNet, Faster-RCNN, FCOS, ATSS and AutoAssign, respectively.

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