5 Significant Object Detection Challenges and Solutions

Object detection problems pose several unique obstacles beyond what is required for image classification. Five such challenges are reviewed in this post along with researchers' efforts to overcome these complications. The field of computer vision has experienced substantial progress recently owing largely to advances in deep learning, specifically convolutional neural nets (CNNs). Image classification, where a computer classifies or assigns labels to an image based on its content, can often see great results simply by leveraging pre-trained neural nets and fine-tuning the last few throughput layers. Classifying and finding an unknown number of individual objects within an image, however, was considered an extremely difficult problem only a few years ago.