Building Robust Industrial Applicable Object Detection Models Using Transfer Learning and Single Pass Deep Learning Architectures

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates how transfer learning with single-pass deep learning architectures can significantly improve industrial object detection tasks, achieving real-time performance with minimal training data.

Contribution

It introduces an industrial object detection pipeline leveraging transfer learning and single-pass architectures, reducing data requirements while maintaining high accuracy.

Findings

Achieved real-time detection performance.

Reduced training data needs significantly.

Successfully applied to industrial scenarios.

Abstract

The uprising trend of deep learning in computer vision and artificial intelligence can simply not be ignored. On the most diverse tasks, from recognition and detection to segmentation, deep learning is able to obtain state-of-the-art results, reaching top notch performance. In this paper we explore how deep convolutional neural networks dedicated to the task of object detection can improve our industrial-oriented object detection pipelines, using state-of-the-art open source deep learning frameworks, like Darknet. By using a deep learning architecture that integrates region proposals, classification and probability estimation in a single run, we aim at obtaining real-time performance. We focus on reducing the needed amount of training data drastically by exploring transfer learning, while still maintaining a high average precision. Furthermore we apply these algorithms to two industrially relevant applications, one being the detection of promotion boards in eye tracking data and the other detecting and recognizing packages of warehouse products for augmented advertisements.