Background Images

[abhishekdey001]

Is it necessary to include background images during model training as we do in YOLO ? If yes please let me know how to do that in COCO format. Thanks

[SkalskiP]

Hi @abhishekdey001 👋🏻 Thanks for your interest in RF-DETR! I don’t think such strategies are necessary in this case. @probicheaux / @isaacrob-roboflow — do you have any thoughts on this?

[isaacrob-roboflow]

What do you mean by background images?

[SkalskiP]

@isaacrob-roboflow ultralytics docs: https://docs.ultralytics.com/yolov5/tutorials/tips_for_best_training_results/#dataset

[isaacrob-roboflow]

Oh. I mean it's probably sane to have them as otherwise the model has a prior that all images should contain some object. I'm not sure why they'd be more important for YOLO then for DETR

[SkalskiP]

@isaacrob-roboflow will our data loader load empty examples?

[isaacrob-roboflow]

Probably. Surely there are empty images in COCO, o365, or RF100-VL

[sctrueew]

Hi all, I recently added background images to my dataset and converted it to the COCO format. Then, I trained it on my dataset, and I encountered no problems.