what is the use of creating objectness prediction layer?

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what is the use of creating objectness prediction layer? #189

Open MhLiao opened 8 years ago

MhLiao commented 8 years ago

Hi, I am reading the code of SSD. I don't know why there are an option for objectness prediction layer in model_libs.py. What's the use of it? Can you explain it for me? Thank you!

weiliu89 commented 8 years ago

That was to try to include an category agnostic prediction (as was done in YOLO), but I haven't dig deep into it.