目标检测之Soft-NMS

一、目标检测之Soft-NMS

Improving Object DetectionWith One Line of Code

• 论文链接：https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.04503
• 论文代码：https://github.com/bharatsingh430/soft-nms

二、Soft-NMS 算法

原来的NMS可以描述如下：将IOU大于阈值的窗口的得分全部置为0。

文章的改进有两种形式：如下

• 一种是线性加权的：
  
• 一种是高斯加权的：
  

分析上面的两种改进形式，思想都是：M为当前得分最高框，bi为待处理框，bi和M的IOU越大，bi的得分Si就下降的越厉害。

源码：

def cpu_soft_nms(np.ndarray[float, ndim=2] boxes, float sigma=0.5, float Nt=0.3, float threshold=0.001, unsigned int method=0):
    cdef unsigned int N = boxes.shape[0]
    cdef float iw, ih, box_area
    cdef float ua
    cdef int pos = 0
    cdef float maxscore = 0
    cdef int maxpos = 0
    cdef float x1,x2,y1,y2,tx1,tx2,ty1,ty2,ts,area,weight,ov
 
    for i in range(N):
        maxscore = boxes[i, 4]
        maxpos = i
 
        tx1 = boxes[i,0]
        ty1 = boxes[i,1]
        tx2 = boxes[i,2]
        ty2 = boxes[i,3]
        ts = boxes[i,4]
 
        pos = i + 1
    # get max box
        while pos < N:
            if maxscore < boxes[pos, 4]:
                maxscore = boxes[pos, 4]
                maxpos = pos
            pos = pos + 1
 
    # add max box as a detection 
        boxes[i,0] = boxes[maxpos,0]
        boxes[i,1] = boxes[maxpos,1]
        boxes[i,2] = boxes[maxpos,2]
        boxes[i,3] = boxes[maxpos,3]
        boxes[i,4] = boxes[maxpos,4]
 
    # swap ith box with position of max box
        boxes[maxpos,0] = tx1
        boxes[maxpos,1] = ty1
        boxes[maxpos,2] = tx2
        boxes[maxpos,3] = ty2
        boxes[maxpos,4] = ts
 
        tx1 = boxes[i,0]
        ty1 = boxes[i,1]
        tx2 = boxes[i,2]
        ty2 = boxes[i,3]
        ts = boxes[i,4]
 
        pos = i + 1
    # NMS iterations, note that N changes if detection boxes fall below threshold
        while pos < N:
            x1 = boxes[pos, 0]
            y1 = boxes[pos, 1]
            x2 = boxes[pos, 2]
            y2 = boxes[pos, 3]
            s = boxes[pos, 4]
 
            area = (x2 - x1 + 1) * (y2 - y1 + 1)
            iw = (min(tx2, x2) - max(tx1, x1) + 1)
            if iw > 0:
                ih = (min(ty2, y2) - max(ty1, y1) + 1)
                if ih > 0:
                    ua = float((tx2 - tx1 + 1) * (ty2 - ty1 + 1) + area - iw * ih)
                    ov = iw * ih / ua #iou between max box and detection box
 
                    if method == 1: # linear
                        if ov > Nt: 
                            weight = 1 - ov
                        else:
                            weight = 1
                    elif method == 2: # gaussian
                        weight = np.exp(-(ov * ov)/sigma)
                    else: # original NMS
                        if ov > Nt: 
                            weight = 0
                        else:
                            weight = 1
 
                    boxes[pos, 4] = weight*boxes[pos, 4]
 
            # if box score falls below threshold, discard the box by swapping with last box
            # update N
                    if boxes[pos, 4] < threshold:
                        boxes[pos,0] = boxes[N-1, 0]
                        boxes[pos,1] = boxes[N-1, 1]
                        boxes[pos,2] = boxes[N-1, 2]
                        boxes[pos,3] = boxes[N-1, 3]
                        boxes[pos,4] = boxes[N-1, 4]
                        N = N - 1
                        pos = pos - 1
 
            pos = pos + 1
 
    keep = [i for i in range(N)]
    return keep

结果