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Glossary: Computer Vision Basics

bounding box

Also written: bounding boxes, box

The smallest upright rectangle around an object, stored as four numbers. torchvision's standard format is XYXY, and a set of boxes is an (N, 4) float tensor.

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box formats (XYXY, XYWH, CXCYWH)object detectionbox helpers (box_convert, box_iou)