Object Recognition
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Object recognition refers to technology that identifies objects in an image or video sequence.
History of Object Recognition
The Modern History of Object Recognition
Categories
- Image segmentation - related to the image processing techniques used to segment object regions.
- Ferns
- SIFT
- SURF
- Selective Search for Object Recognition
- Objectness
- Pedestrian detection (Human detection)
- Traffic signal (sign) recognition (Traffic Signs Recognition)
- Instance segmentation
- [Important] Semantic Segmentation
- Motion estimation
- Pattern recognition
- Text Generation
- Cascading classifiers - recognizes objects using filters.
- Connected Components - finds similar components in an image. Can be used for object extraction.
Deep learning based
- Github - chrispolo/Keypoints-of-humanpose-with-Mask-R-CNN - Use the maskrcnn for the humanpose keypoints detection.
- TensorFlow Object Detection API
- Segmentation models - Segmentation models with pretrained backbones. Keras and TensorFlow Keras.
- Norfair - Python library for real-time 2D object tracking
- AlphaPose - Real-Time and Accurate Multi-Person Pose Estimation&Tracking System
- Alibi-detect - Alibi Detect is an open-source Python library focused on outlier, adversarial, and drift detection.
- Deep Image Matting
- RF-DETR
- YoLo
3D Object Detection
- Deep Hough Voting for 3D Object Detection in Point Clouds
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.09664.pdf
- https://github.com/facebookresearch/votenet
- C3DPO - Canonical 3D Pose Networks for Non-rigid Structure From Motion
- https://github.com/facebookresearch/c3dpo_nrsfm
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.02533
- https://research.fb.com/publications/c3dpo-canonical-3d-pose-networks-for-non-rigid-structure-from-motion/
- https://ai.facebook.com/blog/pushing-state-of-the-art-in-3d-content-understanding/
Favorite site
- Wikipedia (en) entry on Outline of object recognition
- [Recommended] A story about object recognition - (1) Getting started
- YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection
- João F. Henriques - Research Fellow - Visual Geometry Group, University of Oxford
- Image Object Detection using Ferns
- [Recommended] A LOOK AT IMAGE SEGMENTATION USING CNNS 1 (CNN)
- (Translation) A short story about Image Segmentation: from R-CNN to Mask R-CNN
- How to easily do Object Detection on Drone Imagery using Deep learning
- [Recommended] Object Detection 2 (Detection algorithms organized by year)