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- Title
Image Resizing for Object Detection: A Learnable Downsampler–Upsampler Pair with Differentiable Image Entropy Estimation.
- Authors
Dai, Chengjie; Chen, Qiang; Xu, Jingchao; Gong, Hanshen; Song, Guanghua; Yang, Bowei
- Abstract
In recent years, super-resolution neural networks have achieved good results in restoring super-resolution images from low-resolution ones. However, most subsequent tasks based on super-resolution images such as object detection are done by the computer. Considering this situation, we propose a learnable downsampler–upsampler pair, which can realize both the downscaling process and the upscaling process by neural networks, and is jointly trained with the YOLOV5 network to optimize the object detection task. Thus, different from existing super-resolution networks, the entire downsampler–upsampler pair is optimized for machine perception. In addition, to further reduce the size of the downsampled images, we also propose a differentiable method for estimating image entropy and add it to the loss function. We verify the effectiveness of our method on the pothole dataset and use scale factors 2× and 4× to prove that our method is capable of diverse resizing levels. The experimental results show that using our learnable downsampler–upsampler pair as a resizing method can highly improve the detection performance compared with other resizing techniques.
- Subjects
OBJECT recognition (Computer vision); HIGH resolution imaging; ENTROPY
- Publication
International Journal of Pattern Recognition & Artificial Intelligence, 2023, Vol 37, Issue 8, p1
- ISSN
0218-0014
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S0218001423540113