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Faster R-CNN vs. Mask RCNN

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Faster R-CNN vs. Mask RCNN

Both

Faster R-CNN

and

Mask RCNN

are commonly used in computer vision projects. Below, we compare and contrast

Faster R-CNN

and

Mask RCNN

.

  Faster R-CNN Mask RCNN
Date of Release Oct 23, 2017
Model Type Object Detection Instance Segmentation
Architecture
GitHub Stars 7800 22500

Faster R-CNN

One of the most accurate object detection algorithms but requires a lot of power at inference time. A good choice if you can do processing asynchronously on a server.

How to AugmentHow to LabelHow to Plot PredictionsHow to Filter PredictionsHow to Create a Confusion Matrix

Mask RCNN

Mask RCNN is a convolutional neural network for instance segmentation.

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