What does mask r-cnn's AP, AP50, AP70 mean?

[bughunter99]

Hi.

I'm novice on r-cnn.There are term AP, AP50, AP75 on mask r-cnn paper. 50, 75 is small postfix, but I can't make it small, sorry. Anyway the paper says it is averaged over IOU thresholds. For AP50, only candidates over 50% region comparing ground truth are counted, and for AP75 only candidate over 75% are counted. Then what is empty AP? I knew AP use 70% IoU threshold, but it wouldn't. Because just AP is lower then AP75.

And additionally, there are another terms I don't understand well. They are APs, m, L. I know they mean small, medium, large. Then is there any criteria how big they are. Just saying small, medium, large makes me little bit confused.

Thanks in advance!

[ppwwyyxx]

See coco home page: http://cocodataset.org/#detections-eval

[xQsM3]

which confidence score (or which range) is used for AP computation? I cannot find it at the coco home page you posted here. thanks for help

EDIT:
the guys from COCO confirmed that there is no confidence score range, instead, the 100 top scored detections are considered, no matter how low their confidence is