The Faster R-CNN model is trained end-to-end, meaning the region proposal network (RPN) is jointly trained with the rest of the object detection architecture. Its objective function combines four components: the standard object class and bounding box predictions used in Fast R-CNN, along with the binary class (object versus background) and bounding box predictions for the anchor boxes in the RPN. This joint training allows the RPN to learn from data how to generate high-quality region proposals, thereby maintaining detection accuracy while reducing the total number of proposals.

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The region proposal network (RPN) is an internal component of Faster R-CNN that generates region proposals by processing CNN-extracted feature maps in four steps. First, a $$3 	imes 3$$ convolutional layer with a padding of $$1$$ transforms the feature maps into a new output with $$c$$ channels, providing a length-$$c$$ feature vector for each spatial unit. Second, multiple anchor boxes of varying scales and aspect ratios are generated and centered on each pixel. Third, these length-$$c$$ feature vectors are used to predict a binary class (object or background) and a bounding box for each anchor box. Finally, non-maximum suppression is applied to the bounding boxes predicted as objects to remove overlapping results, yielding the final region proposals required by the region of interest pooling layer.

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