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About this paper

Xiaojie Li, Lu Yang, Qing Song, Fuqiang Zhou

A Detector-in-Detector Network (DID-Net) framework is introduced to enhance the detection of multi-level human parts, specifically body, face, and hand, by explicitly leveraging their hierarchical relationships. This approach achieves a mean Average Precision (mAP) of 91.1% on a newly created Human-Parts dataset, outperforming existing state-of-the-art methods for person and hand detection.

Key insights

  • Explicitly modeling hierarchical relationships between objects (e.g., body and its parts) through a coarse-to-fine cascaded detection mechanism significantly improves the accuracy of small sub-object detection.
  • Focusing a dedicated 'PartsDetector' on cropped parent object regions reduces background clutter and provides higher resolution features, which is crucial for overcoming challenges in small object detection.
  • A two-stage RPN+RCNN design within the PartsDetector, leveraging multiple RoI Align operations, proved more effective for refining hand and face detection compared to simpler architectural choices.

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