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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Authors: García Fernández, Pablo; Cores Costa, Daniel; Mucientes Molina, Manuel
Format: Article
Publication date:2025
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)
Repository:Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:minerva.usc.gal:10347/39982
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10347/39982
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Few-shot
Object detection
Few-shot learning
Pseudo-label mining
Pseudo-labeling
120304 Inteligencia artificial
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description 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
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spelling Enhancing few-shot object detection through pseudo-label mining García Fernández, Pablo Cores Costa, Daniel Mucientes Molina, Manuel Few-shot Object detection Few-shot learning Pseudo-label mining Pseudo-labeling 120304 Inteligencia artificial 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 Elsevier https://hdl.handle.net/10347/39982
spellingShingle Enhancing few-shot object detection through pseudo-label mining
García Fernández, Pablo
Few-shot
Object detection
Few-shot learning
Pseudo-label mining
Pseudo-labeling
120304 Inteligencia artificial
title Enhancing few-shot object detection through pseudo-label mining
title_full Enhancing few-shot object detection through pseudo-label mining
title_fullStr Enhancing few-shot object detection through pseudo-label mining
title_full_unstemmed Enhancing few-shot object detection through pseudo-label mining
title_short Enhancing few-shot object detection through pseudo-label mining
title_sort Enhancing few-shot object detection through pseudo-label mining
topic Few-shot
Object detection
Few-shot learning
Pseudo-label mining
Pseudo-labeling
120304 Inteligencia artificial
topic_facet Few-shot
Object detection
Few-shot learning
Pseudo-label mining
Pseudo-labeling
120304 Inteligencia artificial
url https://hdl.handle.net/10347/39982