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Focal Loss for Dense Object Detection

At a glance

Focal loss shifts object-detector training toward difficult examples rather than easy ones.

In one paragraph

Improved object detection by focusing training on difficult examples, preventing easy background regions from overwhelming learning and helping a simpler detector achieve strong recognition accuracy.

Authors 5

  1. Tsung-Yi Lin
  2. Priya Goyal
  3. Ross Girshick
  4. Kaiming He
  5. Piotr Dollár