Question 1: Short answer
easyAI-checkedObject DetectionMost anchor boxes in a detector are background (negatives). Instead of using all of them, SSD ranks the negatives by their classification loss and keeps only the hardest ones, so that negatives outnumber positives by at most 3 to 1. An image has 8,732 anchors, 8 of them positive. How many negative anchors contribute to the classification loss?