Tackling the Small Object Problem in Object Detection

Small objects are hard to detect!

In this video, we discuss some strategies to solve the small object problem in object detection.

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[MustafaAktasVEVO]

Helpful video, thank you.
Another way to augment data might be to go and get a high-resolution dataset and decrease its resolution so that it will be like small objects.

[TheTacticalDood]

I didn't get why we should filter null tiles. Shouldn't they help teach the model the "absence" of objects?

[NadavOssendryver]

Can you please help me, how to I add tiling at inference, and not only in the preprocessing?

[zoroXgamings]

I have 200mb of data as tfrecord file, while training efficientdet d7, it stops