def nms(boxes: torch.Tensor, scores: torch.Tensor, iou_threshold: float) -> torch.Tensor:
    """Perform non-maxima suppression (NMS) on tensor of bounding boxes according to the intersection-over-union (IoU).

    Args:
        boxes: tensor containing the encoded bounding boxes with the shape :math:`(N, (x_1, y_1, x_2, y_2))`.
        scores: tensor containing the scores associated to each bounding box with shape :math:`(N,)`.
        iou_threshold: the throshold to discard the overlapping boxes.

    Return:
        A tensor mask with the indices to keep from the input set of boxes and scores.

    Example:
        >>> boxes = torch.tensor([
        ...     [10., 10., 20., 20.],
        ...     [15., 5., 15., 25.],
        ...     [100., 100., 200., 200.],
        ...     [100., 100., 200., 200.]])
        >>> scores = torch.tensor([0.9, 0.8, 0.7, 0.9])
        >>> nms(boxes, scores, iou_threshold=0.8)
        tensor([0, 3, 1])

    """
    if len(boxes.shape) != 2 and boxes.shape[-1] != 4:
        raise ValueError(f"boxes expected as Nx4. Got: {boxes.shape}.")

    if len(scores.shape) != 1:
        raise ValueError(f"scores expected as N. Got: {scores.shape}.")

    if boxes.shape[0] != scores.shape[0]:
        raise ValueError(f"boxes and scores mus have same shape. Got: {boxes.shape, scores.shape}.")

    x1, y1, x2, y2 = boxes.unbind(-1)
    areas = (x2 - x1) * (y2 - y1)

    _, order = scores.sort(descending=True)

    keep = []
    while order.shape[0] > 0:
        i = order[0]
        keep.append(i)
        xx1 = torch.max(x1[i], x1[order[1:]])
        yy1 = torch.max(y1[i], y1[order[1:]])
        xx2 = torch.min(x2[i], x2[order[1:]])
        yy2 = torch.min(y2[i], y2[order[1:]])

        w = torch.clamp(xx2 - xx1, min=0.0)
        h = torch.clamp(yy2 - yy1, min=0.0)
        inter = w * h
        ovr = inter / (areas[i] + areas[order[1:]] - inter)

        inds = where(ovr <= iou_threshold)[0]
        order = order[inds + 1]

    if len(keep) > 0:
        return stack(keep)

    return torch.tensor(keep)
Perform non-maxima suppression (NMS) on tensor of bounding boxes according to the intersection-over-union (IoU).

    Args:
        boxes: tensor containing the encoded bounding boxes with the shape :math:`(N, (x_1, y_1, x_2, y_2))`.
        scores: tensor containing the scores associated to each bounding box with shape :math:`(N,)`.
        iou_threshold: the throshold to discard the overlapping boxes.

    Return:
        A tensor mask with the indices to keep from the input set of boxes and scores.

    Example:
        >>> boxes = torch.tensor([
        ...     [10., 10., 20., 20.],
        ...     [15., 5., 15., 25.],
        ...     [100., 100., 200., 200.],
        ...     [100., 100., 200., 200.]])
        >>> scores = torch.tensor([0.9, 0.8, 0.7, 0.9])
        >>> nms(boxes, scores, iou_threshold=0.8)
        tensor([0, 3, 1])

    
kornia/geometry/bbox.py