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Bag of Freebies for Training Object Detection Neural Networks

Mar 2019

tl;dr: Commonly used tricks to boost object detectors (both one and two-stage pipelines). Cosine learning rate, class label smoothing and mixup is very useful. Half-half mixup gives the largest performance boost.

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Cosine learning rate, class label smoothing and mixup is very useful. It is surprising that mixup technic is useful in object detection setting. (Need more investigation into this topic)

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