...Originally built to benchmark Mask R-CNN and related models, it offers a clean, modular design to train and evaluate detection systems efficiently on standard datasets like COCO. The framework integrates critical components—region proposal networks (RPNs), RoIAlign layers, mask heads, and backbone architectures such as ResNet and FPN—optimized for both accuracy and speed. It supports multi-GPU distributed training, mixed precision, and custom data loaders for new datasets. Built as a reference implementation, it became a foundation for the next-generation Detectron2, yet remains widely used for research needing a stable, reproducible environment. ...