YOLO9000: Better, Faster, Stronger won an honourable mention award at CVPR in June. There maybe better papers, but they are very recent: the last six months taking lead times into account.

What better papers would you recommend reading?

Arxiv is thou friend :)

https://www.google.com/search?q=fast+object+detection+deep+l...

and

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/search?q=object+det...

There's been an absolute deluge of papers, I can't say I've kept up with them all. There was one interesting one in particular was able to learn object detection in an unsupervised manner in a novel improvement upon Bottou's "is object detection for free" paper.

To save someone googling, the referenced "Is object detection for free" paper is at http://leon.bottou.org/publications/pdf/cvpr-2015.pdf

I also just came across "Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks", which looks interesting and is at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.01497.pdf

(I'll be reading these after work tonight.)

These are both older and not as good as YOLO9000.

I know, they are old references.

> There's been an absolute deluge of papers, I can't say I've kept up with them all.

That's why recommendations were asked for.

Nice.

How good is face recognition at the moment?

Or is this a completely different topic :D