On the other hand, one-stage detectors such as YOLO and SSD execute image classification and object detection tasks in a single module but may not be able to achieve a desirable real-time inference performance due to constrained computational resources on edge devices. Two-stage detectors such as the family of R-CNN perform these tasks separately in different modules by utilizing a Region Proposal Network in the first stage to generate sparse region proposals to obtain Region of Interest (RoI) and then passing down these region proposals for object classification and bounding-box regressions in the second stage resulting in an increase in object detection accuracy but leading to a time complexity bottleneck and therefore, an increase in demand of computational resources for implementation purposes. Extensive experiments and ablation tests, as outlined in this paper, are performed on Argoverse-HD and COCO datasets, which provide numerous temporarily sparse to dense annotated images, demonstrate that the proposed object detection algorithm with CondenseNeXt as the backbone result in an increase in mean Average Precision (mAP) performance and interpretability on Argoverse-HD’s monocular ego-vehicle camera captured scenarios by up to 17.39% as well as COCO’s large set of images of everyday scenes of real-world common objects by up to 14.62%. The scope of the work presented within this paper proposes a modern object detection network called NextDet to efficiently detect objects of multiple classes which utilizes CondenseNeXt, an award-winning lightweight image classification convolutional neural network algorithm with reduced number of FLOPs and parameters as the backbone, to efficiently extract and aggregate image features at different granularities in addition to other novel and modified strategies such as attentive feature aggregation in the head, to perform object detection and draw bounding boxes around the detected objects. Object detection is a computer vision task of detecting instances of objects of a certain class, identifying types of objects, determining its location, and accurately labelling them in an input image or a video.
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