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(**[CVPR 2016](https://www.cv-foundation.org/openaccess/content_cvpr_2016/html/Redmon_You_Only_Look_CVPR_2016_paper.html)**)\r\n\r\n  - [CornerNet](https://github.com/princeton-vl/CornerNet) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/princeton-vl/CornerNet?style=social\"/\u003e : \"CornerNet: Detecting Objects as Paired Keypoints\". (**[ECCV 2018](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_ECCV_2018/html/Hei_Law_CornerNet_Detecting_Objects_ECCV_2018_paper.html)**)\r\n\r\n  - [xingyizhou/CenterNet](https://github.com/xingyizhou/CenterNet) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/xingyizhou/CenterNet?style=social\"/\u003e : \"Objects as Points\". (**[arXiv 2019](https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07850)**)\r\n\r\n  - [Duankaiwen/CenterNet](https://github.com/Duankaiwen/CenterNet) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/Duankaiwen/CenterNet?style=social\"/\u003e : \"CenterNet: Keypoint Triplets for Object Detection\". (**[ICCV 2019](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_ICCV_2019/html/Duan_CenterNet_Keypoint_Triplets_for_Object_Detection_ICCV_2019_paper.html)**)\r\n\r\n  - [FreeAnchor](https://github.com/zhangxiaosong18/FreeAnchor) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/zhangxiaosong18/FreeAnchor?style=social\"/\u003e : \"FreeAnchor: Learning to Match Anchors for Visual Object Detection\". (**[NeurIPS 2019](https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2019/hash/43ec517d68b6edd3015b3edc9a11367b-Abstract.html)**)\r\n\r\n  - [FCOS](https://github.com/tianzhi0549/FCOS) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/tianzhi0549/FCOS?style=social\"/\u003e : \"FCOS: Fully Convolutional One-Stage Object Detection\". (**[ICCV 2019](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_ICCV_2019/html/Tian_FCOS_Fully_Convolutional_One-Stage_Object_Detection_ICCV_2019_paper.html), [IEEE TPAMI 2021](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9229517)**)\r\n\r\n  - [ExtremeNet](https://github.com/xingyizhou/ExtremeNet) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/xingyizhou/ExtremeNet?style=social\"/\u003e : \"Bottom-up Object Detection by Grouping Extreme and Center Points\". (**[CVPR 2019](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPR_2019/html/Zhou_Bottom-Up_Object_Detection_by_Grouping_Extreme_and_Center_Points_CVPR_2019_paper.html)**)\r\n\r\n  - [RepPoints](https://github.com/microsoft/RepPoints) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/microsoft/RepPoints?style=social\"/\u003e : \"Bottom-up Object Detection by Grouping Extreme and Center Points\". (**[ICCV 2019](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_ICCV_2019/html/Yang_RepPoints_Point_Set_Representation_for_Object_Detection_ICCV_2019_paper.html)**)\r\n\r\n  - [CenterNet3d](https://github.com/wangguojun2018/CenterNet3d) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/wangguojun2018/CenterNet3d?style=social\"/\u003e : \"CenterNet3D: An Anchor free Object Detector for Autonomous Driving\". (**[arXiv 2020](https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07214)**)\r\n\r\n  - [CenterMask](https://github.com/youngwanLEE/centermask2) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/youngwanLEE/centermask2?style=social\"/\u003e : \"CenterMask: Real-Time Anchor-Free Instance Segmentation\". (**[CVPR 2020](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPR_2020/html/Lee_CenterMask_Real-Time_Anchor-Free_Instance_Segmentation_CVPR_2020_paper.html)**)\r\n\r\n  - [AutoAssign](https://github.com/Megvii-BaseDetection/AutoAssign) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/Megvii-BaseDetection/AutoAssign?style=social\"/\u003e : \"AutoAssign: Differentiable Label Assignment for Dense Object Detection\". (**[arXiv 2020](https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03496)**)\r\n\r\n  - [BorderDet](https://github.com/Megvii-BaseDetection/BorderDet) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/Megvii-BaseDetection/BorderDet?style=social\"/\u003e : \"BorderDet: Border Feature for Dense Object Detection\". (**[ECCV 2020](https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11056)**)\r\n\r\n  - [Dense-RepPoints](https://github.com/justimyhxu/Dense-RepPoints) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/justimyhxu/Dense-RepPoints?style=social\"/\u003e : \"Dense Reppoints: Representing Visual Objects with Dense Point Sets\". (**[ECCV 2020](https://www.ecva.net/papers/eccv_2020/papers_ECCV/papers/123660222.pdf)**)\r\n\r\n  - [sfzhang15/ATSS](https://github.com/sfzhang15/ATSS) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/sfzhang15/ATSS?style=social\"/\u003e : \"Bridging the Gap Between Anchor-based and Anchor-free Detection via Adaptive Training Sample Selection\". (**[CVPR 2020](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPR_2020/html/Zhang_Bridging_the_Gap_Between_Anchor-Based_and_Anchor-Free_Detection_via_Adaptive_CVPR_2020_paper.html)**)\r\n\r\n  - [RepPointsV2](https://github.com/Scalsol/RepPointsV2) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/Scalsol/RepPointsV2?style=social\"/\u003e : \"RepPoints V2: Verification Meets Regression for Object Detection\". (**[NeurIPS 2020](https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2020/hash/3ce3bd7d63a2c9c81983cc8e9bd02ae5-Abstract.html)**)\r\n\r\n  - [GFocal](https://github.com/implus/GFocal) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/implus/GFocal?style=social\"/\u003e : \"Generalized Focal Loss: Learning Qualified and Distributed Bounding Boxes for Dense Object Detection\". (**[NeurIPS 2020](https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2020/hash/f0bda020d2470f2e74990a07a607ebd9-Abstract.html)**)\r\n\r\n  - [DETR](https://github.com/facebookresearch/detr) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/facebookresearch/detr?style=social\"/\u003e : \"End-to-end object detection with transformers\". (**[ECCV 2020](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-58452-8_13)**)\r\n\r\n  - [CenterNet2](https://github.com/xingyizhou/CenterNet2) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/xingyizhou/CenterNet2?style=social\"/\u003e : \"Probabilistic two-stage detection\". (**[arXiv 2021](https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.07461)**)\r\n\r\n  - [OneNet](https://github.com/PeizeSun/OneNet) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/PeizeSun/OneNet?style=social\"/\u003e : \"What Makes for End-to-End Object Detection?\". (**[ICML 2021](https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/sun21b.html)**)\r\n\r\n  - [Sparse R-CNN](https://github.com/PeizeSun/SparseR-CNN) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/PeizeSun/SparseR-CNN?style=social\"/\u003e : \"Sparse R-CNN: End-to-End Object Detection with Learnable Proposals\". (**[CVPR 2021](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2021/html/Sun_Sparse_R-CNN_End-to-End_Object_Detection_With_Learnable_Proposals_CVPR_2021_paper.html)**)\r\n\r\n  - [DeFCN](https://github.com/Megvii-BaseDetection/DeFCN) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/Megvii-BaseDetection/DeFCN?style=social\"/\u003e : \"End-to-End Object Detection with Fully Convolutional Network\". (**[CVPR 2021](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2021/html/Wang_End-to-End_Object_Detection_With_Fully_Convolutional_Network_CVPR_2021_paper.html)**)\r\n\r\n  - [YOLOX](https://github.com/Megvii-BaseDetection/YOLOX) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/Megvii-BaseDetection/YOLOX?style=social\"/\u003e : \"YOLOX: Exceeding YOLO Series in 2021\". (**[arXiv 2021](https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.08430)**)\r\n\r\n  - [YOLOR](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolor) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/WongKinYiu/yolor?style=social\"/\u003e : \"You Only Learn One Representation: Unified Network for Multiple Tasks\". (**[arXiv 2021](https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.04206)**)\r\n  \r\n  - [DAFNe](https://github.com/steven-lang/DAFNe) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/steven-lang/DAFNe?style=social\"/\u003e : \"DAFNe: A One-Stage Anchor-Free Deep Model for Oriented Object Detection\". (**[arXiv 2021](https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.06148)**)\r\n\r\n  - [FCAF3D](https://github.com/SamsungLabs/fcaf3d) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/SamsungLabs/fcaf3d?style=social\"/\u003e : \"FCAF3D: Fully Convolutional Anchor-Free 3D Object Detection\". (**[arXiv 2021](https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.00322)**)\r\n\r\n  - [NanoDet-Plus](https://github.com/RangiLyu/nanodet) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/RangiLyu/nanodet?style=social\"/\u003e : NanoDet-Plus⚡Super fast and lightweight anchor-free object detection model. 🔥Only 980 KB(int8) / 1.8MB (fp16) and run 97FPS on cellphone🔥.\r\n\r\n  - [AlignPS](https://github.com/daodaofr/AlignPS) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/daodaofr/AlignPS?style=social\"/\u003e : \"Anchor-Free Person Search\". (**[CVPR 2021](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2021/html/Yan_Anchor-Free_Person_Search_CVPR_2021_paper.html)**)\r\n\r\n  - [ByteTrack](https://github.com/ifzhang/ByteTrack) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/ifzhang/ByteTrack?style=social\"/\u003e : \"ByteTrack: Multi-Object Tracking by Associating Every Detection Box\". (**[arXiv 2021](https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.06864)**)\r\n\r\n  - [FII-CenterNet](https://github.com/leofansq/FII-CenterNet) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/leofansq/FII-CenterNet?style=social\"/\u003e : \"FII-CenterNet: An Anchor-Free Detector With Foreground Attention for Traffic Object Detection\". (**[IEEE TVT 2021](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9316984)**)\r\n\r\n  - [CenterNet++](https://github.com/Duankaiwen/PyCenterNet) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/Duankaiwen/PyCenterNet?style=social\"/\u003e : \"CenterNet++ for Object Detection\". (**[arXiv 2022](https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.08394)**)\r\n\r\n  - [dog-qiuqiu/FastestDet](https://github.com/dog-qiuqiu/FastestDet) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/dog-qiuqiu/FastestDet?style=social\"/\u003e : ⚡ A newly designed ultra lightweight anchor free target detection algorithm， weight only 250K parameters， reduces the time consumption by 10% compared with yolo-fastest, and the post-processing is simpler. (**[知乎 2022](https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/536500269)**)   \r\n\r\n  - [AIRDet](https://github.com/tinyvision/AIRDet) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/tinyvision/AIRDet?style=social\"/\u003e : Welcome to AIRDet! AIRDet is an efficiency-oriented anchor-free object detector, aims to enable robust object detection in various industry scene.\r\n\r\n  - [YOLOv6](https://github.com/meituan/YOLOv6) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/meituan/YOLOv6?style=social\"/\u003e : \"YOLOv6: A Single-Stage Object Detection Framework for Industrial Applications\". (**[arXiv 2022](https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02976)**).  \"微信公众号「美团技术团队」《[YOLOv6：又快又准的目标检测框架开源啦](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/RrQCP4pTSwpTmSgvly9evg)》\"。 \"微信公众号「美团技术团队」《[目标检测开源框架YOLOv6全面升级，更快更准的2.0版本来啦 ](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/9FyvWrHErfgJrVXIC_PKqg)》\"。 \"微信公众号「集智书童」《[超越YOLOv7 | YOLOv6论文放出，重参+自蒸馏+感知量化+...各种Tricks大放异彩](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/DPHC7bO1Q-IKDUqPU7DSJA)》\"\r\n\r\n  - [YOLOX-PAI](https://github.com/alibaba/EasyCV) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/alibaba/EasyCV?style=social\"/\u003e : \"YOLOX-PAI: An Improved YOLOX, Stronger and Faster than YOLOv6\". (**[arXiv 2022](https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.13040)**). \"微信公众号「集智书童」《[YOLOX升级 | 阿里巴巴提出YOLOX-PAI，1ms内精度无敌，超越YOLOv6、PP-YOLOE](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/bIu3cYyZ-fVb5iB0bTfyug)》\"\r\n\r\n\r\n## Applications\r\n\r\n  - [TracKit](https://github.com/researchmm/TracKit) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/researchmm/TracKit?style=social\"/\u003e : \"Ocean: Object-aware Anchor-free Tracking\". (**[ECCV 2020](https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10721)**)\r\n\r\n  - [CenterTrack](https://github.com/xingyizhou/CenterTrack) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/xingyizhou/CenterTrack?style=social\"/\u003e : \"Tracking Objects as Points\". (**[ECCV 2020](https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.01177)**)\r\n\r\n  - [FairMOT](https://github.com/ifzhang/FairMOT) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/ifzhang/FairMOT?style=social\"/\u003e : \"FairMOT: On the Fairness of Detection and Re-Identification in Multiple Object Tracking\". (**[IJCV 2021](https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.01888)**)\r\n\r\n  - [TraDeS](https://github.com/JialianW/TraDeS) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/JialianW/TraDeS?style=social\"/\u003e : \"Track to Detect and Segment: An Online Multi-Object Tracker\". (**[CVPR 2021](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2021/html/Wu_Track_To_Detect_and_Segment_An_Online_Multi-Object_Tracker_CVPR_2021_paper.html)**)\r\n\r\n  - [DSFNet](https://github.com/ChaoXiao12/Moving-object-detection-DSFNet) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/ChaoXiao12/Moving-object-detection-DSFNet?style=social\"/\u003e : \"DSFNet: Dynamic and Static Fusion Network for Moving Object Detection in Satellite Videos\". (**[IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 2021](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9594855)**)\r\n\r\n  - [CaptainEven/MCMOT](https://github.com/CaptainEven/MCMOT) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/DataXujing/CornerNet-Lite-Pytorch?style=social\"/\u003e : Real time one-stage multi-class \u0026 multi-object tracking based on anchor-free detection and ReID.\r\n\r\n  - [DataXujing/CornerNet-Lite-Pytorch](https://github.com/DataXujing/CornerNet-Lite-Pytorch) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/DataXujing/CornerNet-Lite-Pytorch?style=social\"/\u003e : 🚨🚨🚨 CornerNet:基于虚拟仿真环境下的自动驾驶交通标志识别。\r\n\r\n  - [HaiNguyen2903/CenterFace](https://github.com/HaiNguyen2903/CenterFace) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/HaiNguyen2903/CenterFace?style=social\"/\u003e : Using free anchor method to solve Object Detection problem.\r\n\r\n  - [Bigtuo/YOLOX-Lite](https://github.com/Bigtuo/YOLOX-Lite) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/Bigtuo/YOLOX-Lite?style=social\"/\u003e : 将YOLOv5-Lite代码中的head更换为YOLOX head。\r\n\r\n  - [DSFNet](https://github.com/ChaoXiao12/Moving-object-detection-DSFNet) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/ChaoXiao12/Moving-object-detection-DSFNet?style=social\"/\u003e : \"DSFNet: Dynamic and Static Fusion Network for Moving Object Detection in Satellite Videos\". (**[IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 2021](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9594855)**)\r\n\r\n\r\n## Others\r\n\r\n  - [XinZhangNLPR/awesome-anchor-free-object-detection](https://github.com/XinZhangNLPR/awesome-anchor-free-object-detection) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/XinZhangNLPR/awesome-anchor-free-object-detection?style=social\"/\u003e : In this project, we focus on collection the anchor free object detection paper or code. \r\n\r\n  - [VCBE123/AnchorFreeDetection](https://github.com/VCBE123/AnchorFreeDetection) \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/github/stars/VCBE123/AnchorFreeDetection?style=social\"/\u003e : list the paper for recently anchor free detector.\r\n\r\n\r\n","projects_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/lists/coderonion%2Fawesome-anchor-free-object-detection/projects"}