def get_symbol(num_classes=20, nms_thresh=0.5, force_suppress=False,
               nms_topk=400, **kwargs):
    """
    Single-shot multi-box detection with VGG 16 layers ConvNet
    This is a modified version, with fc6/fc7 layers replaced by conv layers
    And the network is slightly smaller than original VGG 16 network
    This is the detection network

    Parameters:
    ----------
    num_classes: int
        number of object classes not including background
    nms_thresh : float
        threshold of overlap for non-maximum suppression
    force_suppress : boolean
        whether suppress different class objects
    nms_topk : int
        apply NMS to top K detections

    Returns:
    ----------
    mx.Symbol
    """
    net = get_symbol_train(num_classes)
    cls_preds = net.get_internals()["multibox_cls_pred_output"]
    loc_preds = net.get_internals()["multibox_loc_pred_output"]
    anchor_boxes = net.get_internals()["multibox_anchors_output"]

    cls_prob = mx.symbol.softmax(data=cls_preds, axis=1, name='cls_prob')
    out = mx.symbol.contrib.MultiBoxDetection(*[cls_prob, loc_preds, anchor_boxes], \
        name="detection", nms_threshold=nms_thresh, force_suppress=force_suppress,
        variances=(0.1, 0.1, 0.2, 0.2), nms_topk=nms_topk)
    return out