How Yolo calculate P(Object) in the YOLO 9000

Question

Currently I am testing the yolo 9000 model for object detection and in the Paper I understand that the image is splited in 13X13 boxes and in each boxes we calculate P(Object), but How can we calculate that ? how can the model know if there is an object in this boxe or not, please I need help to understand that

I am using tensorflow

Thanks,

Answer 1

They train for the confidence score = P(object) * IOU. For the ground truth box they take P(object)=1 and for rest of the grid pixels the ground truth P(object) is zero. You are training your network to tell you if some object in that grid location i.e. output 0 if not object, output IOU if partial object and output 1 if object is present. So at test time, your model has become capable of telling if there is an object at that location.