An Efficient Deep Convolutional Neural Network Approach for Object Detection and Recognition Using a Multi-Scale Anchor Box in Real-Time.

Deep learning is a relatively new branch of machine learning in which computers are taught to recognize patterns in massive volumes of data. It primarily describes learning at various levels of representation, which aids in understanding data that includes text, voice, and visuals. Convolutional neural networks have been used to solve challenges in computer vision, including object identification, image classification, semantic segmentation and a lot more. Object detection in videos involves confirming the presence of the object in the image or video and then locating it accurately for recognition. In the video, modelling techniques suffer from high computation and memory costs, which may decrease performance measures such as accuracy and efficiency to identify the object accurately in real-time. The current object detection technique based on a deep convolution neural network requires executing multilevel convolution and pooling operations on the entire image to extract deep semantic properties from it. For large objects, detection models can provide superior results; however, those models fail to detect the varying size of the objects that have low resolution and are greatly influenced by noise because the features after the repeated convolution operations of existing models do not fully represent the essential characteristics of the objects in real-time. With the help of a multi-scale anchor box, the proposed approach reported in this paper enhances the detection accuracy by extracting features at multiple convolution levels of the object. The major contribution of this paper is to design a model to understand better the parameters and the hyper-parameters which affect the detection and the recognition of objects of varying sizes and shapes, and to achieve real-time object detection and recognition speeds by improving accuracy. The proposed model has achieved 84.49 mAP on the test set of the Pascal VOC-2007 dataset at 11 FPS, which is comparatively better than other real-time object detection models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]