The document discusses different approaches to object detection in images using deep learning. It begins with describing detection as classification, where an image is classified into categories for what objects are present. It then discusses approaches that involve separating detection into a classification head and localization head. The document also covers improvements like R-CNN which uses region proposals to first generate candidate object regions before running classification and bounding box regression on those regions using CNN features. This helps address issues with previous approaches like being too slow when running the CNN over the entire image at multiple locations and scales.