Object detection in crowded scenes via joint prediction

Detecting highly-overlapped objects in crowded scenes remains a challenging problem,especially for one-stage detector.In this paper,we extricate YOLOv4 from the dilemma in a crowd by fine-tuning its detection scheme,named YOLO-CS.Specifically,we give YOLOv4 the power to detect multiple objects in one cell.Center to our method is the carefully designed joint prediction scheme,which is executed through an assignment of bounding boxes and a joint loss.Equipped with the derived joint-object augmentation(DJA),refined regression loss(RL)and Score-NMS(SN),YOLO-CS achieves competitive detection performance on CrowdHuman and CityPersons benchmarks compared with state-of-the-art detectors at the cost of little time.Furthermore,on the widely used general benchmark COCO,YOLOCS still has a good performance,indicating its robustness to various scenes.