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ExtremeNet: Bottom-up Object Detection by Grouping Extreme and Center Points

April 2019

tl;dr: Detect four extreme corners and the center of an object with an anchor-less framework. This is heavily influenced by CornetNet, and eventually leads to CenterNet.

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The bottom up approach treats object detection as keypoint detection and keypoint grouping. It is related to and inspired by the annotation method in extreme clicking.

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