Anchor-based detectors have been continuously developed for object detection. However, the individual anchor box makes it difficult to predict the boundary’s offset accurately. Instead of taking each bounding box as a closed individual, we consider using multiple boxes together to get prediction boxes. To this end, this paper proposes the Box Decouple-Couple(BDC) strategy in the inference, which no longer discards the overlapping boxes, but decouples the corner points of these boxes. Then, according to each corner’s score, we couple the corner points to select the most accurate corner pairs. To meet the BDC strategy, a simple but novel model is designed named the Anchor-Intermediate Detector(AID), which contains two head networks, i.e., an anchor-based head and an anchor-free Corner-aware head. The corner-aware head is able to score the corners of each bounding box to facilitate the coupling between corner points. Extensive experiments on MS COCO show that the proposed anchor-intermediate detector respectively outperforms their baseline RetinaNet and GFL method by ∼2.4 and ∼1.2 AP on the MS COCO test-dev dataset without any bells and whistles.

Patch-based image registration is a challenging problem in visual geometry, the crucial component of which is the selection of an appropriate similarity measure. The similarity measure participates in the objective calculation of the pose optimization, which determines the optimization convergence performance. In this paper, we propose learning a similarity metric of patches from reference and target images such that the pairwise patches with a small projection error receive high similarity scores. To achieve this objective, we designed and trained the classification, regression, and rank networks separately based on self-collected data sets. The network can directly output the projection error according to the patches, which is sensitive to the deviation of the pose transformation. We also designed evaluation criteria and validated the superior performance of the network's outputs compared with the performance of traditional methods, such as the sum of absolute difference and the sum of squared differences.