# It GAN DO Better: GAN-based Detection of Objects on Images with Varying Quality

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01707 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.01707/

## Key facts

- Cited by 12 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 3 Dec 2019.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper, we propose in our novel generative framework the use of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to generate features that provide robustness for object detection on reduced quality images. The proposed GAN-based Detection of Objects (GAN-DO) framework is not restricted to any particular architecture and can be generalized to several deep neural network (DNN) based architectures. The resulting deep neural network maintains the exact architecture as the selected baseline model without adding to the model parameter complexity or inference speed. We first evaluate the effect of image quality not only on the object classification but also on the object bounding box regression. We then test the models resulting from our proposed GAN-DO framework, using two state-of-the-art object detection architectures as the baseline models. We also evaluate the effect of the number of re-trained parameters in the generator of GAN-DO on the accuracy of the final trained model. Performance results provided using GAN-DO on object detection datasets establish an improved robustness to varying image quality and a higher mAP compared to the existing approaches.