The region-based Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) detectors such as Faster
R-CNN or R-FCN have already shown promising results for object detection by
combining the region proposal subnetwork and the classification subnetwork
together. Although R-FCN has achieved higher detection speed while keeping the
detection performance, the global structure information is ignored by the
position-sensitive score maps. To fully explore the local and global
properties, in this paper, we propose a novel fully convolutional network,
named as CoupleNet, to couple the global structure with local parts for object
detection. Specifically, the object proposals obtained by the Region Proposal
Network (RPN) are fed into the the coupling module which consists of two
branches. One branch adopts the position-sensitive RoI (PSRoI) pooling to
capture the local part information of the object, while the other employs the
RoI pooling to encode the global and context information. Next, we design
different coupling strategies and normalization ways to make full use of the
complementary advantages between the global and local branches. Extensive
experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. We achieve
state-of-the-art results on all three challenging datasets, i.e. a mAP of 82.7%
on VOC07, 80.4% on VOC12, and 34.4% on COCO. Codes will be made publicly
available.

本研究提出了一种名为 CoupleNet 的新型全卷积网络，通过耦合全局结构与局部部分进行目标检测，其中一个分支采用位置敏感 RoI 池化来捕获对象的局部信息，而另一个分支则采用 RoI 池化来对全局和上下文信息进行编码。实验证明该方法具有良好的效果。