[Auto-Aug] Scale-aware Automatic Automentation for Object Detection(CVPR. 2021)

1. Motivation

• 这篇文章主要关注于目标检测中的数据增强。

  This paper focuses on data augmentation for object detection.

• 之前的工作，对于如何将尺度适应性融入网络的方法主要来源与网络的结构（FPN）以及数据增强。

• Previous work handles this challenge which brings the scale adaptation to the network efficiently mainly from two aspects, namely network architecture and data augmentation.

• Though inspiring performance gain has achieved, these data augmentation strategies usually rely on heavy expert experience.

• Thus, scale-aware property and efficiency issue are essential to address for searching augmentation in box-level tasks.

2. Contribution

• In this paper, we propose a new way to automatically learn scale-aware data augmentation strategies for object detection and relevant box-level tasks.

• We first introduce scale-awareness to the search space from two image-levels and box-levels.

  For image-level augmentations, zoom-in and -out operations are included with their probabilities and zooming ratios for search.

  For box-level augmentations, the augmenting areas are generalized with a new searchable parameter, i.e., area ratio.

3. Method

The designed scale-aware search space contains both image-level and box-level augmentations.

3.1 Scale-aware Search Space

3.1.1 Image-Level augmentations

3.1.2 Box-Level augmentations

引入可学习的参数 area-ratio

• Different from [51], the proposed approach further