The document discusses object detection pipelines. It begins by defining object detection as identifying objects in images and locating them with bounding boxes. The main components of an object detection pipeline are datasets, preprocessing, model selection and training, testing and evaluation. Popular models discussed are Faster R-CNN, R-FCN, and SSD which use deep convolutional neural networks as feature extractors and classifiers. Key evaluation metrics are mean average precision and prediction time/memory usage. Popular datasets mentioned are MSCOCO, Pascal VOC, and LSVRC. The document provides information on preprocessing, training including fine-tuning pre-trained models, and codes/models available on GitHub.