Abstract Single Shot multibox Detector (SSD) is a object detection algorithm that provides
the optimal trade-off among simplicity, speed and accuracy. The single use of detection
layers in SSD network structure makes the feature information not fully utilized, which will
lead to the small object detection are not robust enough. In this paper, an Attention based
Single Shot multibox Detector (ASSD) is proposed. The ASSD algorithm first uses the
proposed two-way feature fusion module to fuse the feature information to obtain the feature …