PP-YOLOE-R: An Efficient Anchor-Free Rotated Object Detector
This work addresses the problem of detecting rotated objects in visual scenes for applications like aerial imagery, offering incremental improvements over existing methods.
The paper tackles arbitrary-oriented object detection in aerial images and scene text by presenting PP-YOLOE-R, an efficient anchor-free rotated object detector, achieving up to 80.73 mAP on the DOTA 1.0 dataset with competitive FPS rates.
Arbitrary-oriented object detection is a fundamental task in visual scenes involving aerial images and scene text. In this report, we present PP-YOLOE-R, an efficient anchor-free rotated object detector based on PP-YOLOE. We introduce a bag of useful tricks in PP-YOLOE-R to improve detection precision with marginal extra parameters and computational cost. As a result, PP-YOLOE-R-l and PP-YOLOE-R-x achieve 78.14 and 78.28 mAP respectively on DOTA 1.0 dataset with single-scale training and testing, which outperform almost all other rotated object detectors. With multi-scale training and testing, PP-YOLOE-R-l and PP-YOLOE-R-x further improve the detection precision to 80.02 and 80.73 mAP. In this case, PP-YOLOE-R-x surpasses all anchor-free methods and demonstrates competitive performance to state-of-the-art anchor-based two-stage models. Further, PP-YOLOE-R is deployment friendly and PP-YOLOE-R-s/m/l/x can reach 69.8/55.1/48.3/37.1 FPS respectively on RTX 2080 Ti with TensorRT and FP16-precision. Source code and pre-trained models are available at https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleDetection, which is powered by https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle.