Learning Shortlist: Object Detection
Creators: Alireza Darbehani, Arezoo Abdolahi
Objective: This blog post provides a shortlist of resources you can use to learn Object Detection in Computer Vision
Audience Level: Intermediate
Main Concept: Object Detection is the main concept you will learn through the following resources
Background Concept: You need to know Semantic Extraction in order to learn Object Detection
Subsequent Concept: Once you know Object Detection you can learn Image Recognition
Resources
You should go through the following resources in the order that is provided:
- CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition
Type: Course; Theory, Main Concept
Estimated time commitment: 90 mins
Why is this a good resource: It is a Stanford university lecture on Detection and Segmentation that provides the basics you need
How to use this resource: Watch the whole video (optional: there are other related videos that you can watch too)
Instructor: Fei Fei Li
Link: http://cs231n.stanford.edu/
2. 12 Papers You Should Read to Understand Object Detection in the Deep Learning Era
Type: Blog post; Theory, Background Concept
Estimated time commitment: 90 mins
Why is this a good resource: This article has a comprehensive list of papers in object detection.
How to use this resource: Read the list of recommended papers
Author: Ethan Yanjia Li
3. Yolo-Models
Type: GitHub Repository; Implementation, Main Concept
Estimated time commitment: 90 mins
Why is this a good resource: Yolo-Model is one of the most famous models for the object detection task
How to use this resource: read the paper and play with the implementation
Creators: Joseph Redmon, Ali Farhadi
Link: https://github.com/eriklindernoren/PyTorch-YOLOv3
4. Image Recognition and Object Detection in Retail
Type: Blog Post; Application, Subsequent Concept
Estimated time commitment: 20 mins
Why is this a good resource: This post provides a concrete example of objection detection used in industry
How to use this resource: Read the post for 3 different use cases of object detection in industry
Authors: Ankit Singh, ParallelDots
Link: https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/02/image-recognition-object-detection-retail.html
