ROI Detection with Faster FRCNN

We use Faster RCNN to detect object because Faster RCNN consumes less time than RCNN[11]. there are

two modules one is region proposal network (RPN) and fast- RCNN[12] detector.

region proposal network gives some rectangular object proposal and their objectness scores. It tells the

detector module where to look at. We use RESNET [13] network. We used max overlap threshold for RPN

0.7 and RPN stride 16. In our competition, we deal with small object. This is quite different from normal

image dataset such as PASCAL VOC, COCO etc. state-of-the-art object detection algorithm fails to give

satisfactory result to detect small objects in image.[14] Also we have some hardware limitation that’s why

we use some technique which support us to give satisfactory result in short time.

Our dataset has some unique features and we use this for our favors. Since usually traffic sign lies above

the horizon as this is viewed from a vehicle we cut down some lower portion of image which doesn’t

change anything but reduce computational time. Our original image was 1628*1236, after cutting it

become 1628*660. Then we cut our image into two part as left side and right side and keep overlap of 70

pixels. We train one model for left and one model for right side this helps us to use two gpu simultaneously

for each model and high resolution original image. But here we find a problem, in our dataset ROI is in less

number in left than right. So only left side ROI can’t train left side model well so we use right side and left

side ROI to train single model and use it twice since both right and left side image is similar. After using

this technique gives both models satisfactory result. We also made some modification in ground truth box

for training.

We take bigger ground truth box to allow some background. Training model with sign with background ie.

context helps in detection.[14] There are 14 different traffic signs but we grouped them in 7 groups, similar

signs in same group, for CNN classifier which helps in detection. We also apply non-maxima suppression

to get biggest bounding box.[14]. We use anchor box scale [50, 150] and ratio [1 1] which is smaller than

suggested in paper.[11] We apply learning rate 1x10^-4.

 References:

11. S. Ren, K. He, R. Girshick, and J. Sun, “Faster R-CNN: Towards real-time object detection with region

proposal networks,” in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2015.

12. R. Girshick, “Fast R-CNN,” in IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015.

13. Kaiming He Xiangyu Zhang Shaoqing Ren Jian Sun, “Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition”,

CVPR 2016 paper

14. Chen, C.; Liu, M.-Y.; Tuzel, C.O.; Xiao, J.,“R-cnn for small object detection.”