Contritutions:
- study the impact of crowd occlusion on pedestrian detection
- Two types of repulsion losses: RepGT Loss and RepBox Loss
- a crowd-robust pedestrian detector is trained end-to-end
Loss:
Attraction Term:
- to narrow the gap between predicted boxes and ground-truth boxes
Repulsion Term (RepGT)
- designed to repel a proposal from its neighboring ground-truth objectswhich are not its target.
Repulsion Term (RepBox):
- repel each proposal from others with different designated targets