由于在物体检测过程中,通常是通过卷积的滑动,来检测所有可能是物体的检测框,这就出现了一个问题,可能会出现很多候选框,而且这些候选框很多是重叠的,那么如何解决这一问题,来去除重复框,就用到了非极大值抑制,NMS。NMS算法流程如下/
首先,通过网络的检测,每一个候选框都会有一个score,根据score进行排序。
import numpy as np
def py_cpu_nms(dets, thresh):
"""Pure Python NMS baseline."""
x1 = dets[:, 0]
y1 = dets[:, 1]
x2 = dets[:, 2]
y2 = dets[:, 3]
scores = dets[:, 4]
areas = (x2 - x1 + 1) * (y2 - y1 + 1)
order = scores.argsort()[::-1]
keep = []
while order.size > 0:
i = order[0]
keep.append(i)
xx1 = np.maximum(x1[i], x1[order[1:]])
yy1 = np.maximum(y1[i], y1[order[1:]])
xx2 = np.minimum(x2[i], x2[order[1:]])
yy2 = np.minimum(y2[i], y2[order[1:]])
w = np.maximum(0.0, xx2 - xx1 + 1)
h = np.maximum(0.0, yy2 - yy1 + 1)
inter = w * h
ovr = inter / (areas[i] + areas[order[1:]] - inter)
inds = np.where(ovr <= thresh)[0]
order = order[inds + 1]
return keep