Neural Architecture Adaptation for Object Detection by Searching Channel Dimensions and Mapping Pre-trained Parameters

Harim Jung, Myeong Seok Oh, Cheoljong Yang, Seong Whan Lee

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    Abstract

    Most object detection frameworks use backbone architectures originally designed for image classification, conventionally with pre-trained parameters on ImageNet. However, image classification and object detection are essentially different tasks and there is no guarantee that the optimal backbone for classification is also optimal for object detection. Recent neural architecture search (NAS) research has demonstrated that automatically designing a backbone specifically for object detection helps improve the overall accuracy. In this paper, we introduce a neural architecture adaptation method that can optimize the given backbone for detection purposes, while still allowing the use of pre-trained parameters. We propose to adapt both the micro- and macro-architecture by searching for specific operations and the number of layers, in addition to the output channel dimensions of each block. It is important to find the optimal channel depth, as it greatly affects the feature representation capability and computation cost. We conduct experiments with our searched backbone for object detection and demonstrate that our backbone outperforms both manually designed and searched state-of-the-art backbones on the COCO dataset.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication2022 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2022
    PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
    Pages2393-2400
    Number of pages8
    ISBN (Electronic)9781665490627
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2022
    Event26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2022 - Montreal, Canada
    Duration: 2022 Aug 212022 Aug 25

    Publication series

    NameProceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition
    Volume2022-August
    ISSN (Print)1051-4651

    Conference

    Conference26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2022
    Country/TerritoryCanada
    CityMontreal
    Period22/8/2122/8/25

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    © 2022 IEEE.

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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