Object proposal generation is a preprocessing technique that has been widely used in current object detection pipelines to guide the search of objects and avoid exhaustive sliding window search across images.
The COCO (Common Objects in Context) dataset is a large-scale object detection, segmentation, and captioning dataset. It is designed to encourage research on a wide variety of object categories and is commonly used for benchmarking computer vision models. It is an essential dataset for researchers and developers working on object detection, segmentation, and pose estimation tasks.