Would YOLO be able to detect objects in "different" positions? I have the following question about You Only Look Once (YOLO) algorithm, for object detection.
I have to develop a neural network to recognize web components in web applications - for example, login forms, text boxes, and so on. In this context, I have to consider that the position of the objects on the page may vary, for example, when you scroll up or down.
The question is, would YOLO be able to detect objects in &quot;different&quot; positions? Would the changes affect the recognition precision? In other words, how to achieve translation invariance? Also, what about partial occlusions?
My guess is that it depends on the relevance of the examples in the dataset: if enough translated / partially occluded examples are present, it should work fine.
If possible, I would appreciate papers or references on this matter.
(PS: if anyone knows about a labeled dataset for this task, I would really be grateful if you let me know.)
As you said, a CNN would be able to detect objects in different positions if the dataset contains enough examples of such cases, though the network is able to generalize and should be able to detect objects in slightly changed positions and orientations.
The term &quot;translation invariance&quot; does not mean that translating an object in the image would yield the same output for this object, but that translating the whole image would yield the same result. So the relative position of object IS important, modern CNN's takes decisions on the whole image (with strong local cues, of course).
To maximize the ability of your CNN to detect multiple orientation, you can train with data augmentation that rotate the images.
the same reasoning can be applied to partial occlusions: if there are enough samples with occlusion in the training set the network should be able to detect those ones. The network ability to generalize should also help a little when occlusions are small, and still be able to detect the object.
Some papers tried different experiment to demonstrate the robustness to occlusion and translation, for instance by looking at the network activation when artificially occluding a portion of the image with a gray rectangle, though I do not have a paper name in mind.