PANet
Path Aggregation Network for Instance Segmentation
The way that information propagates in neural networks is of great importance. In this paper, we propose Path Aggregation Network (PANet) aiming at boosting information flow in proposal-based instance segmentation framework. Specifically, we enhance the entire feature hierarchy with accurate localization signals in lower layers by bottom-up path augmentation, which shortens the information path between lower layers and topmost feature. We present adaptive feature pooling, which links feature grid and all feature levels to make useful information in each feature level propagate directly to following proposal subnetworks. A complementary branch capturing different views for each proposal is created to further improve mask prediction. These improvements are simple to implement, with subtle extra computational overhead. Our PANet reaches the 1 st place in the COCO 2017 Challenge Instance Segmentation task and the 2 nd place in Object Detection task without large-batch training. It is also state-of-the-art on MVD and Cityscapes.
Implementations
Introduction
This repository is for the CVPR 2018 Spotlight paper, 'Path Aggregation Network for Instance Segmentation', which ranked 1st place of COCO Instance Segmentation Challenge 2017 , 2nd place of COCO Detection Challenge 2017 (Team Name: UCenter) and 1st place of 2018 Scene Understanding Challenge for Autonomous Navigation in Unstructured Environments (Team Name: TUTU).
