IoU threshold influence on detecting results when using detect.py

fyang5 commented 9 months ago

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I trained the yolov5n model with a customized dataset, and then test the testing data with detect.py using the command: python detect.py --source /test/videos --weights runs/train/yolov5n/exp/weights/best.pt --save-txt --device 0 --conf-thres 0.2 --iou-thres 0.2 --save-conf .

However, when I fix the confidence score =0.2, then using make IoU threshold varies from 0.1 to 0.9, I found that the results does not change at all. In contrast, if I fix the IoU threshold=0.1, then let confidence score vary from 0.1 to 0.9, then results decreases as expected. See the figure below. I cannot understand why the IoU threshold does not change the result. I would expect the result decreases as confidence score. Is there something wrong?

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fyang5 commented 9 months ago

I also tested with Yolov8, and it generated the same results.

glenn-jocher commented 9 months ago

@fyang5 hello! The IoU (Intersection over Union) threshold is used during Non-Maximum Suppression (NMS) to determine whether two detected bounding boxes overlap too much and are likely to be the same object. If the IoU threshold does not influence your results, it could be due to a few reasons:

Sparse Detections: If your detections are sparse and there's little overlap between bounding boxes, changing the IoU threshold won't have much effect.
High Confidence Detections: If most detections have high confidence, they might not be affected by the IoU threshold, especially if there's not much overlap.
Dataset Characteristics: The nature of your dataset might be such that objects are not close enough to create overlaps that would be affected by the IoU threshold.

It's also worth noting that the IoU threshold is more influential in crowded scenes where multiple objects are close together. If your scenes are not crowded, the IoU threshold will have less impact.

For a more detailed analysis, you might want to visually inspect the detections at different IoU thresholds or check the distribution of IoU scores for your detections.

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