diff --git a/include/tkDNN/BoundingBox.h b/include/tkDNN/BoundingBox.h
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+#ifndef BOUNDINGBOX_H
+#define BOUNDINGBOX_H
+
+#include <iostream>
+#include "tkdnn.h"
+
+namespace tk { namespace dnn {
+class BoundingBox : public tk::dnn::box
+{
+    float overlap(const float p1, const float l1, const float p2, const float l22);
+    float boxesIntersection(const BoundingBox &b);
+    float boxesUnion(const BoundingBox &b);
+
+    public:
+    
+    int uniqueTruthIndex = -1;
+    int truthFlag = 0;
+    float maxIoU = 0;
+
+    float IoU(const BoundingBox &b);
+    void clear();
+
+    friend std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, const BoundingBox& bb);
+};
+
+std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, const BoundingBox& bb);
+bool boxComparison (const BoundingBox& a,const BoundingBox& b) ;
+
+}}
+#endif /*BOUNDINGBOX_H*/
+
diff --git a/src/BoundingBox.cpp b/src/BoundingBox.cpp
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+#include "BoundingBox.h"
+
+namespace tk { namespace dnn {
+
+float BoundingBox::overlap(const float p1, const float d1, const float p2, const float d2){
+    float l1 = p1 - d1/2;
+    float l2 = p2 - d2/2;
+    float left = l1 > l2 ? l1 : l2;
+    float r1 = p1 + d1/2;
+    float r2 = p2 + d2/2;
+    float right = r1 < r2 ? r1 : r2;
+    return right - left;
+}
+
+float BoundingBox::boxesIntersection(const BoundingBox &b){
+    float width = this->overlap(x, w, b.x, b.w);
+    float height = this->overlap(y, h, b.y, b.h);
+    if(width < 0 || height < 0) 
+        return 0;
+    float area = width*height;
+    return area;
+}
+
+float BoundingBox::boxesUnion(const BoundingBox &b){
+    float i = this->boxesIntersection(b);
+    float u = w*h + b.w*b.h - i;
+    return u;
+}
+
+float BoundingBox::IoU(const BoundingBox &b){
+    float I = this->boxesIntersection(b);
+    float U = this->boxesUnion(b);
+    if (I == 0 || U == 0) 
+        return 0;
+    return I / U;
+}
+
+void BoundingBox::clear(){
+    uniqueTruthIndex = -1;
+    truthFlag = 0;
+    maxIoU = 0;
+}
+
+std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, const BoundingBox& bb){
+    os <<"w: "<< bb.w << ", h: "<< bb.h << ", x: "<< bb.x << ", y: "<< bb.y <<
+         ", cat: "<< bb.cl << ", conf: "<< bb.prob<< ", truth: "<< 
+         bb.truthFlag<< ", assignedGT: "<< bb.uniqueTruthIndex<< 
+         ", maxIoU: "<< bb.maxIoU<<"\n";
+    return os;
+}
+
+bool boxComparison (const BoundingBox& a,const BoundingBox& b) { 
+    return (a.prob>b.prob); 
+}
+
+}}
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