Overview of Object Detection Evaluation Metrics
Last Updated on August 28, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Youssef Hosni
Originally published on Towards AI.
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When evaluating the performance of an object detector, we use two main evaluation metrics: FPS (frame-per-second) to measure the network detection speed and mAP (mean Average Precision) to measure the network precision. In this article, we will go through each of them, discussing what they mean and how to calculate each of them.
FPS to Measure the Detection SpeedmAP to Measure the Network Precision2.1. Intersection Over Union (IoU)2.2. Precision-Recall Curve (PR Curve)
When it comes to object detection algorithms, processing speed is of paramount importance. The most common metric that is… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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