yangxue0827/RotationDetection

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AlphaRotate is a TensorFlow-based benchmark and toolbox for rotated (oriented) object detection, implementing detectors such as R2CNN, RetinaNet-based rotation variants, and related techniques with support for standard backbones and FPN-style necks. It ships with training and evaluation pipelines for widely used rotated detection datasets including DOTA, HRSC2016, ICDAR2015/2017, MSRA-TD500, UCAS-AOD, and Total-Text, and is maintained as an academic research benchmark by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Use cases

• detect objects with rotated bounding boxes in aerial or remote sensing images
• train a rotated object detector on the DOTA dataset
• benchmark oriented object detection algorithms like R2CNN
• perform scene text detection with arbitrary orientations on ICDAR datasets
• compare rotated detection models under a single TensorFlow framework
• reproduce research results for oriented bounding box detection

When to choose

• you work with TensorFlow and need rotated/oriented object detection
• your research targets remote sensing, aerial imagery, or rotated scene text
• you want a unified benchmark to compare multiple rotation detection algorithms
• you need pretrained or reproducible baselines on DOTA, HRSC2016, or ICDAR benchmarks

When to avoid

• your stack is PyTorch-first (consider MMRotate or MMDetection-based alternatives)
• you only need standard horizontal bounding box detection
• you need a production-ready, commercially supported detection service rather than a research benchmark
• you require lightweight inference on edge devices with minimal dependencies

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machine-learning deep-learning computer-vision image-processing computer-vision deep-learning machine-learning artificial-intelligence image-processing python cross-platform object-detection rotated-bounding-box oriented-object-detection remote-sensing aerial-imagery text-detection benchmark dota-dataset tensorflow alpharotate research gpu linux

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