Object Detection : Simplified

Take a peek into the world of one of the most famous problem statements in Computer Vision

Prakhar Ganesh
Towards Data Science
6 min readAug 12, 2019

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What is Object Detection?

Object Detection is a common Computer Vision problem which deals with identifying and locating object of certain classes in the image. Interpreting the object localisation can be done in various ways, including creating a bounding box around the object or marking every pixel in the image which contains the object (called segmentation).

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