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Generalized Focal Loss V2: Learning Reliable Localization Quality Estimation for Dense Object Detection

December 2020

tl;dr: Introduces a bridge between QFL and DFL in generalized focal loss.

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The improvement of GFocalV2 over GFocal is simple. GFocal predicts QFL (quality focal loss) and DFL (distribution focal loss) separately, while GFocalV2 introduced a bridge named distribution guided quality predictor (DGQP) to guide the prediction of localization quality estimation (LQE).

The classification and localization still has a joint representation, but the training and prediction method has a decomposed design.

The acronym in this manuscript is getting a bit crazy. Even in the original GFocal paper, the annotation is a bit unnecessarily obscure.

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