In order to improve the detection accuracy of small objects,a neighborhood fusion-based hierarchical parallel feature pyramid network(NFPN)is proposed.Unlike the layer-by-layer structure adopted in the feature pyramid...In order to improve the detection accuracy of small objects,a neighborhood fusion-based hierarchical parallel feature pyramid network(NFPN)is proposed.Unlike the layer-by-layer structure adopted in the feature pyramid network(FPN)and deconvolutional single shot detector(DSSD),where the bottom layer of the feature pyramid network relies on the top layer,NFPN builds the feature pyramid network with no connections between the upper and lower layers.That is,it only fuses shallow features on similar scales.NFPN is highly portable and can be embedded in many models to further boost performance.Extensive experiments on PASCAL VOC 2007,2012,and COCO datasets demonstrate that the NFPN-based SSD without intricate tricks can exceed the DSSD model in terms of detection accuracy and inference speed,especially for small objects,e.g.,4%to 5%higher mAP(mean average precision)than SSD,and 2%to 3%higher mAP than DSSD.On VOC 2007 test set,the NFPN-based SSD with 300×300 input reaches 79.4%mAP at 34.6 frame/s,and the mAP can raise to 82.9%after using the multi-scale testing strategy.展开更多
Deep learning for topology optimization has been extensively studied to reduce the cost of calculation in recent years.However,the loss function of the above method is mainly based on pixel-wise errors from the image ...Deep learning for topology optimization has been extensively studied to reduce the cost of calculation in recent years.However,the loss function of the above method is mainly based on pixel-wise errors from the image perspective,which cannot embed the physical knowledge of topology optimization.Therefore,this paper presents an improved deep learning model to alleviate the above difficulty effectively.The feature pyramid network(FPN),a kind of deep learning model,is trained to learn the inherent physical law of topology optimization itself,of which the loss function is composed of pixel-wise errors and physical constraints.Since the calculation of physical constraints requires finite element analysis(FEA)with high calculating costs,the strategy of adjusting the time when physical constraints are added is proposed to achieve the balance between the training cost and the training effect.Then,two classical topology optimization problems are investigated to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.The results show that the developed model using a small number of samples can quickly obtain the optimization structure without any iteration,which has not only high pixel-wise accuracy but also good physical performance.展开更多
Anchor-based detectors are widely used in object detection.To improve the accuracy of object detection,multiple anchor boxes are intensively placed on the input image,yet.Most of which are invalid.Although the anchor-...Anchor-based detectors are widely used in object detection.To improve the accuracy of object detection,multiple anchor boxes are intensively placed on the input image,yet.Most of which are invalid.Although the anchor-free method can reduce the number of useless anchor boxes,the invalid ones still occupy a high proportion.On this basis,this paper proposes a multiscale center point object detection method based on parallel network to further reduce the number of useless anchor boxes.This study adopts the parallel network architecture of hourglass-104 and darknet-53 of which the first one outputs heatmaps to generate the center point for object feature location on the output attribute feature map of darknet-53.Combining feature pyramid and CIoU loss function,this algorithm is trained and tested on MSCOCO dataset,increasing the detection rate of target location and the accuracy rate of small object detection.Though resembling the state-of-the-art two-stage detectors in overall object detection accuracy,this algorithm is superior in speed.展开更多
时空视频超分辨率(space-time video super-resolution,STVSR)通过时间和空间2个尺度提升视频的质量,从而实现在视频采集设备、传输或者存储有限的情况下依然能实时地呈现高分辨率和高帧率的视频,满足人们对超高清画质的追求。相比两阶...时空视频超分辨率(space-time video super-resolution,STVSR)通过时间和空间2个尺度提升视频的质量,从而实现在视频采集设备、传输或者存储有限的情况下依然能实时地呈现高分辨率和高帧率的视频,满足人们对超高清画质的追求。相比两阶段方法,一阶段方法实现的是特征层面而非像素层面的帧插值,其在推理速度和计算复杂度上都明显更胜一筹。一些现有的一阶段STVSR方法采用基于像素幻觉的特征插值,这幻化了像素,因此很难应对帧间快速运动物体的预测。为此,提出一种基于光流法的金字塔编码器-解码器网络来进行时间特征插值,实现快速的双向光流估计和更真实自然的纹理合成,在使得网络结构更高效的同时弥补了大运动对光流估计带来的不稳定性。另外,空间模块采用基于滑动窗口的局部传播和基于循环网络的双向传播来强化帧对齐,整个网络称为时间特征细化网络(temporal feature refinement netowrk,TFRnet)。为了进一步挖掘TFRnet的潜力,将空间超分辨率先于时间超分辨率(space-first),在几种广泛使用的数据基准和评估指标上的实验证明了所提出方法TFRnet-sf的出色性能,在总体峰值信噪比(peak signal to noise ratio,PSNR)和结构相似性(structural similarity,SSIM)提升的同时,插入中间帧的PSNR和SSIM也得到提升,在一定程度上缓和了插入的中间帧与原有帧之间PSNR和SSIM差距过大的问题。展开更多
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61603091)。
文摘In order to improve the detection accuracy of small objects,a neighborhood fusion-based hierarchical parallel feature pyramid network(NFPN)is proposed.Unlike the layer-by-layer structure adopted in the feature pyramid network(FPN)and deconvolutional single shot detector(DSSD),where the bottom layer of the feature pyramid network relies on the top layer,NFPN builds the feature pyramid network with no connections between the upper and lower layers.That is,it only fuses shallow features on similar scales.NFPN is highly portable and can be embedded in many models to further boost performance.Extensive experiments on PASCAL VOC 2007,2012,and COCO datasets demonstrate that the NFPN-based SSD without intricate tricks can exceed the DSSD model in terms of detection accuracy and inference speed,especially for small objects,e.g.,4%to 5%higher mAP(mean average precision)than SSD,and 2%to 3%higher mAP than DSSD.On VOC 2007 test set,the NFPN-based SSD with 300×300 input reaches 79.4%mAP at 34.6 frame/s,and the mAP can raise to 82.9%after using the multi-scale testing strategy.
基金This work was supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.11725211,52005505,and 62001502Post-graduate Scientific Research Innovation Project of Hunan Province under Grant No.CX20200023.
文摘Deep learning for topology optimization has been extensively studied to reduce the cost of calculation in recent years.However,the loss function of the above method is mainly based on pixel-wise errors from the image perspective,which cannot embed the physical knowledge of topology optimization.Therefore,this paper presents an improved deep learning model to alleviate the above difficulty effectively.The feature pyramid network(FPN),a kind of deep learning model,is trained to learn the inherent physical law of topology optimization itself,of which the loss function is composed of pixel-wise errors and physical constraints.Since the calculation of physical constraints requires finite element analysis(FEA)with high calculating costs,the strategy of adjusting the time when physical constraints are added is proposed to achieve the balance between the training cost and the training effect.Then,two classical topology optimization problems are investigated to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.The results show that the developed model using a small number of samples can quickly obtain the optimization structure without any iteration,which has not only high pixel-wise accuracy but also good physical performance.
文摘Anchor-based detectors are widely used in object detection.To improve the accuracy of object detection,multiple anchor boxes are intensively placed on the input image,yet.Most of which are invalid.Although the anchor-free method can reduce the number of useless anchor boxes,the invalid ones still occupy a high proportion.On this basis,this paper proposes a multiscale center point object detection method based on parallel network to further reduce the number of useless anchor boxes.This study adopts the parallel network architecture of hourglass-104 and darknet-53 of which the first one outputs heatmaps to generate the center point for object feature location on the output attribute feature map of darknet-53.Combining feature pyramid and CIoU loss function,this algorithm is trained and tested on MSCOCO dataset,increasing the detection rate of target location and the accuracy rate of small object detection.Though resembling the state-of-the-art two-stage detectors in overall object detection accuracy,this algorithm is superior in speed.
文摘时空视频超分辨率(space-time video super-resolution,STVSR)通过时间和空间2个尺度提升视频的质量,从而实现在视频采集设备、传输或者存储有限的情况下依然能实时地呈现高分辨率和高帧率的视频,满足人们对超高清画质的追求。相比两阶段方法,一阶段方法实现的是特征层面而非像素层面的帧插值,其在推理速度和计算复杂度上都明显更胜一筹。一些现有的一阶段STVSR方法采用基于像素幻觉的特征插值,这幻化了像素,因此很难应对帧间快速运动物体的预测。为此,提出一种基于光流法的金字塔编码器-解码器网络来进行时间特征插值,实现快速的双向光流估计和更真实自然的纹理合成,在使得网络结构更高效的同时弥补了大运动对光流估计带来的不稳定性。另外,空间模块采用基于滑动窗口的局部传播和基于循环网络的双向传播来强化帧对齐,整个网络称为时间特征细化网络(temporal feature refinement netowrk,TFRnet)。为了进一步挖掘TFRnet的潜力,将空间超分辨率先于时间超分辨率(space-first),在几种广泛使用的数据基准和评估指标上的实验证明了所提出方法TFRnet-sf的出色性能,在总体峰值信噪比(peak signal to noise ratio,PSNR)和结构相似性(structural similarity,SSIM)提升的同时,插入中间帧的PSNR和SSIM也得到提升,在一定程度上缓和了插入的中间帧与原有帧之间PSNR和SSIM差距过大的问题。
