Deep learning based Object Detection and Instance Segmentation using Mask R-CNN in OpenCV (Python / C++) A few weeks back we wrote a post on Object detection using YOLOv3.
The output of an object detector is an array of bounding boxes around objects detected in the image or video frame, but we do not get any clue about the shape of the object inside the bounding box. Wouldn’t it be cool if we could find a binary mask containing the object instead of just the bounding box? In this post, we will learn how to do just that. We will show how to use a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model called Mask-RCNN (Region based Convolutional Neural Network) for object detection and segmentation. Using Mask-RCNN we not only detect the object, we also obtain a greyscale or binary mask containing the object. The results in this tutorial are obtained using a Mac OS 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU.
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