The KITTI Vision Benchmark Suite

We present a context aware object detection
method based on a retrieve-and-transform scene
layout model. Given an input image, our approach
first retrieves a coarse scene layout from a
codebook of typical layout templates. In order to
handle large layout variations, we use a variant
of the spatial transformer network to transform
and refine the retrieved layout, resulting in a
set of interpretable and semantically meaningful
feature maps of object locations and scales. The
above steps are implemented as a Layout Transfer
Network which we integrate into Faster RCNN to
allow for joint reasoning of object detection and
scene layout estimation. Extensive experiments on
three public datasets verified that our approach
provides consistent performance improvements to
the state-of-the-art object detection baselines
on a variety of challenging tasks in the traffic
surveillance and the autonomous driving domains.

Please see the paper.

@ARTICLE{8836625,
author={T. {Wang} and X. {He} and Y. {Cai} and G.
{Xiao}},
journal={IEEE Transactions on Intelligent
Transportation Systems},
title={Learning a Layout Transfer Network for
Context Aware Object Detection},
year={2019},
volume={},
number={},
pages={1-16},
keywords={Object detection;context modeling;scene
layout transfer.},
doi={10.1109/TITS.2019.2939213},
ISSN={},
month={},}