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Prototype-Driven Adaptation for Few-Shot Object Detection

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025-10-30 v1

Abstract

Few-shot object detection (FSOD) often suffers from base-class bias and unstable calibration when only a few novel samples are available. We propose Prototype-Driven Alignment (PDA), a lightweight, plug-in metric head for DeFRCN that provides a prototype-based "second opinion" complementary to the linear classifier. PDA maintains support-only prototypes in a learnable identity-initialized projection space and optionally applies prototype-conditioned RoI alignment to reduce geometric mismatch. During fine-tuning, prototypes can be adapted via exponential moving average(EMA) updates on labeled foreground RoIs-without introducing class-specific parameters-and are frozen at inference to ensure strict protocol compliance. PDA employs a best-of-K matching scheme to capture intra-class multi-modality and temperature-scaled fusion to combine metric similarities with detector logits. Experiments on VOC FSOD and GFSOD benchmarks show that PDA consistently improves novel-class performance with minimal impact on base classes and negligible computational overhead.

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@article{arxiv.2510.25318,
  title  = {Prototype-Driven Adaptation for Few-Shot Object Detection},
  author = {Yushen Huang and Zhiming Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.25318},
  year   = {2025}
}

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7 pages,1 figure,2 tables,Preprint

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