Exemplar Network: A Generalized Mixture Model

We present a non-linear object detector called Exemplar Network. Our model efficiently encodes the space of all possible mixture models, and offers a framework that generalizes recent exemplar-based object detection with monolithic detectors. We evaluate our method on the traffic scene dataset that we collected using onboard cameras, and demonstrate an orientation estimation. Our model has both the interpretability and accessibility necessary for industrial applications. One can easily apply our method to a variety of applications.

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