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✨ Diffusion meets Object Detection

📰 DiffusionDet: Diffusion Model for Object Detection

• It formulates object detection as a denoising diffusion process
from noisy boxes to object boxes

• At training, object boxes diffuse from ground-truth boxes to random distribution

• The model learns to reverse this noising process

• During inference, the model gradually refines a set of randomly generated boxes to refine the results

@farid Very cool new object detection paradigm!

Though it takes a bit of a hit in terms of FPS, this will probably be improved in a few follow-up papers by the community.

Comes with great flexibility of using the model at evaluation time.

@lb I agree with you, Lucas.

I look forward to seeing more papers on object detection/segmentation using diffusion.

@farid This is really great, IMO applying this kind of iterative methods to new types of object detection, for example those described by graphs or curves will be super interesting.