ALFPN: Adaptive Learning Feature Pyramid Network for Small Object Detection

Table 4

Comparison with existing methods on COCO datasets and PASCAL VOC dataset.

No.	Detector	Dataset	Method	AP	AP50	AP75	APs	APm	APl
1	Faster R-CNN	COCO	FPN [9]	33.0	51.7	36.1	13.8	35.9	46.3
2			PAFPN [48]	37.2	—	—	20.1	—	—
3			AugFPN [26]	34.2	56.6	36.2	19.6	36.4	43.1
4			GraphFPN [50]	37.4	56.6	41.4	18.9	36.7	47.6
5		VOC2007 + 2012	FPN [9]	76.3	—	—	—	—	—
6		COCO	ALFPN (ours)	37.8	58.7	41.0	20.6	41.0	47.9
7		VOC2007 + 2012	ALFPN (ours)	77.1	—	—	—	—	—

The symbol represents the experimental results of our proposed module.