Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
University of Texas at Austin
vision

CenterNet (Objects as Points)

Detector that models objects as their centre points and regresses size, 3D box and pose from them; in TF Model Garden, OpenVINO and NXP zoos.

University of Texas at AustinUniversity of Texas at AustinUSAUC BerkeleyUC BerkeleyUSA
Example CenterNet detections shown as object centre points and boxes, from the CenterNet README.
Levelmodel
Classvision
Parametersnot in the notes
Contextnot in the notes
Released16 Apr 2019
Opennessopen source
Runs onmobile or NPU, CPU server
Statusactive

R&D Topics

Real-time object detection (YOLO and DETR lines)produced by

Identity

Developer
University of Texas at Austin, UC Berkeley
Family
not in the notes
Released
16 Apr 2019 sourcesannouncement page
Weights published
–
Record checked
12 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
CNN
Total parameters
– sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Note
Hourglass, ResNet, DLA-34 and MobileNetV2 FPN backbones; 2D boxes, 3D boxes and human pose.
Context length
not in the notes
Input
image
Output
labels and boxes
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
open source
Licence
MIT License sources
Access routes
open weights download, cloud marketplace
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
mobile or NPU, CPU server
Footprint
Edge or toolkit builds listed in: Qualcomm AI Hub, OpenVINO, NXP eIQ model zoo.
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Benchmark Results

The notes record no benchmark result for this model.

Lineage

The notes record no lineage for this model.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

  1. arxiv.org/abs/1904.07850 https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07850
  2. github.com/xingyizhou/CenterNet https://github.com/xingyizhou/CenterNet
  3. jumpstart-cache-prod-us-west-2.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/models_manifest.json https://jumpstart-cache-prod-us-west-2.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/models_manifest.json
  4. aihub.qualcomm.com/models/centernet_2d https://aihub.qualcomm.com/models/centernet_2d
  5. github.com/openvinotoolkit/open_model_zoo/tree/master/mo... https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/open_model_zoo/tree/master/models/public/ctdet_coco_dlav0_512
  6. github.com/NXP/eiq-model-zoo/tree/main/tasks/vision/obje... https://github.com/NXP/eiq-model-zoo/tree/main/tasks/vision/object-detection
  7. kaggle.com/models/tensorflow/centernet-hourglass https://www.kaggle.com/models/tensorflow/centernet-hourglass
  8. arxiv.org/html/1904.07850 https://arxiv.org/html/1904.07850

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "CenterNet (Objects as Points)", https://aurion.semai.id/models/centernet/, records of October 2026.