在faster rcnn中使用soft nms，faster rcnn的改进（一）

1. 背景介绍

我的项目是利用faster rcnn检测kiiti数据集，用原始nms，iters = 10000的情况下，得到的mAP = 0.586, 在改用soft nms后，其他参数均不变的情况下，得到的mAP = 0.622。算是挺大的改进了，所以分享一下具体实现。
我用的Faster-RCNN是tensorflow版本，github地址：Faster-RCNN_TF

2. soft-NMS

Soft-NMS （Improving Object Detection With One Line of Code）

Paper：https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.04503.pdf
code：https://github.com/bharatsingh430/soft-nms
论文解读可以参考：https://blog.csdn.net/lanyuxuan100/article/details/78767818

该篇论文主要focus在后处理NMS上，不得不承认，对于很多问题，后处理的方法会对结果产生几个点的影响。况且尝试起来非常容易，代价也很小，只需要替换一个函数就可以，所以大家不妨可以试验一下。

3. 具体步骤

3.1. 修改/lib/nms/cpu_nms.pyx

在文件里添加 cpu_soft_nms函数：

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 bo