Cited by 49Advanced Neural Network ApplicationsDomain Adaptation and Few-Shot LearningAdvanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques

DeepSetNet: Predicting Sets with Deep Neural Networks

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Rezatofighi, S. Hamid, B. G., Vijay Kumar, Milan, Anton, Abbasnejad, Ehsan, Dick, Anthony, Reid, Ian·2017·2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

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This paper addresses the task of set prediction using deep learning. This is important because the output of many computer vision tasks, including image tagging and object detection, are naturally expressed as sets of entities rather than vectors. As opposed to a vector, the size of a set is not fixed in advance, and it is invariant to the ordering of entities within it. We define a likelihood for a set distribution and learn its parameters using a deep neural network. We also derive a loss for predicting a discrete distribution corresponding to set cardinality. Set prediction is demonstrated on the problem of multi-class image classification. Moreover, we show that the proposed cardinality loss can also trivially be applied to the tasks of object counting and pedestrian detection. Our approach outperforms existing methods in all three cases on standard datasets.

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  • Previous attempts at direct set prediction either add other forms of prior knowledge or have not proven competitive with strong baselines on challenging benchmarks.

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    The Conclusion reports that DeepSetNet achieved competitive or superior results in crowd counting, pedestrian detection, and multi-class image classification. The Object Counting section also says it did not use location or perspective information. Those passages run contrary to the characterization of this work as relying on such prior knowledge or failing to compete with strong baselines. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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Authors
Rezatofighi, S. H., B. G., V. K., Milan, A., Abbasnejad, E., Dick, A., & Reid, I.
Affiliations
The University of Adelaide (AU)
Venue
2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2017-10
Pages
5257-5266
OpenAlex
W2557260587
Cited by
45
References
52
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 6
FWCI
2.40
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
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  • IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
Australian Research Council (FL130100102, CE140100016)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
Keywords
set prediction, Deep Sets, multi-class image classification, object counting, pedestrian detection, image tagging, object detection, permutation invariance

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