Enhancing few-shot object detection through pseudo-label mining

Few-shot object detection involves adapting an existing detector to a set of unseen categories with few annotated examples. This data limitation makes these methods to underperform those trained on large labeled datasets. In many scenarios, there is a high amount of unlabeled data that is never expl...

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Autores: García Fernández, Pablo, Cores Costa, Daniel, Mucientes Molina, Manuel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)
Repositorio:Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:minerva.usc.gal:10347/39982
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10347/39982
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Few-shot
Object detection
Few-shot learning
Pseudo-label mining
Pseudo-labeling
120304 Inteligencia artificial
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Sumario:Few-shot object detection involves adapting an existing detector to a set of unseen categories with few annotated examples. This data limitation makes these methods to underperform those trained on large labeled datasets. In many scenarios, there is a high amount of unlabeled data that is never exploited. Thus, we propose to exPAND the initial novel set by mining pseudo-labels. From a raw set of detections, xPAND obtains reliable pseudo-labels suitable for training any detector. To this end, we propose two new modules: Class and Box confirmation. Class Confirmation aims to remove misclassified pseudo-labels by comparing candidates with expected class prototypes. Box Confirmation estimates IoU to discard inadequately framed objects. Experimental results demonstrate that xPAND enhances the performance of multiple detectors up to +5.9 nAP and +16.4 nAP50 points for MS-COCO and PASCAL VOC, respectively, establishing a new state of the art. Code: https://github.com/PAGF188/xPAND