  Object detection, one of the most fundamental and challenging problems in
computer vision, seeks to locate object instances from a large number of
predefined categories in natural images. Deep learning techniques have emerged
as a powerful strategy for learning feature representations directly from data
and have led to remarkable breakthroughs in the field of generic object
detection. Given this period of rapid evolution, the goal of this paper is to
provide a comprehensive survey of the recent achievements in this field brought
about by deep learning techniques. More than 300 research contributions are
included in this survey, covering many aspects of generic object detection:
detection frameworks, object feature representation, object proposal
generation, context modeling, training strategies, and evaluation metrics. We
finish the survey by identifying promising directions for future research.
