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Few-shot object detection (FSOD) is a challenging problem aimed at detecting novel concepts from few exemplars. Existing approaches to FSOD all assume abundant base labels to adapt to novel objects. This paper studies the new task of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Phi Vu Tran

Semi-Supervised Object Detection (SSOD) has achieved resounding success by leveraging unlabeled data to improve detection performance. However, in Open Scene Semi-Supervised Object Detection (O-SSOD), unlabeled data may contains unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Jingyu Zhuang , Kuo Wang , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

Object detection in sonar images is a key technology in underwater detection systems. Compared to natural images, sonar images contain fewer texture details and are more susceptible to noise, making it difficult for non-experts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Chengzhou Li , Ping Guo , Guanchen Meng , Qi Jia , Jinyuan Liu , Zhu Liu , Xiaokang Liu , Yu Liu , Zhongxuan Luo , Xin Fan

Training with sparse annotations is known to reduce the performance of object detectors. Previous methods have focused on proxies for missing ground truth annotations in the form of pseudo-labels for unlabeled boxes. We observe that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Saksham Suri , Sai Saketh Rambhatla , Rama Chellappa , Abhinav Shrivastava

In real-world applications, an object detector often encounters object instances from new classes and needs to accommodate them effectively. Previous work formulated this critical problem as incremental object detection (IOD), which assumes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Ziqi Yuan , Liyuan Wang , Wenbo Ding , Xingxing Zhang , Jiachen Zhong , Jianyong Ai , Jianmin Li , Jun Zhu

The growing demand for oriented object detection (OOD) across various domains has driven significant research in this area. However, the high cost of dataset annotation remains a major concern. Current mainstream OOD algorithms can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Mingxin Liu , Peiyuan Zhang , Yuan Liu , Wei Zhang , Yue Zhou , Ning Liao , Ziyang Gong , Junwei Luo , Zhirui Wang , Yi Yu , Xue Yang

Current state-of-the-art (SOTA) 3D object detection methods often require a large amount of 3D bounding box annotations for training. However, collecting such large-scale densely-supervised datasets is notoriously costly. To reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Chenqiang Gao , Chuandong Liu , Jun Shu , Fangcen Liu , Jiang Liu , Luyu Yang , Xinbo Gao , Deyu Meng

Semi-supervised 3D object detection (SS3DOD) aims to reduce costly 3D annotations utilizing unlabeled data. Recent studies adopt pseudo-label-based teacher-student frameworks and demonstrate impressive performance. The main challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Taehun Kong , Tae-Kyun Kim

Dominated point cloud-based 3D object detectors in autonomous driving scenarios rely heavily on the huge amount of accurately labeled samples, however, 3D annotation in the point cloud is extremely tedious, expensive and time-consuming. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Junbo Yin , Jin Fang , Dingfu Zhou , Liangjun Zhang , Cheng-Zhong Xu , Jianbing Shen , Wenguan Wang

The objective of this paper is few-shot object detection (FSOD) -- the task of expanding an object detector for a new category given only a few instances for training. We introduce a simple pseudo-labelling method to source high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Prannay Kaul , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

Conventional open-world object detection (OWOD) problem setting first distinguishes known and unknown classes and then later incrementally learns the unknown objects when introduced with labels in the subsequent tasks. However, the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Sahal Shaji Mullappilly , Abhishek Singh Gehlot , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Hisham Cholakkal

Semi-supervised object detection (SSOD) aims to boost detection performance by leveraging extra unlabeled data. The teacher-student framework has been shown to be promising for SSOD, in which a teacher network generates pseudo-labels for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Honggyu Choi , Zhixiang Chen , Xuepeng Shi , Tae-Kyun Kim

Infrared-visible object detection has shown great potential in real-world applications, enabling robust all-day perception by leveraging the complementary information of infrared and visible images. However, existing methods typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Hang Jin , Chenqiang Gao , Junjie Guo , Fangcen Liu , Kanghui Tian , Qinyao Chang

Point annotations are considerably more time-efficient than bounding box annotations. However, how to use cheap point annotations to boost the performance of semi-supervised object detection remains largely unsolved. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yongtao Ge , Qiang Zhou , Xinlong Wang , Zhibin Wang , Hao Li , Chunhua Shen

Object detection under imperfect data receives great attention recently. Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) suffers from severe localization issues due to the lack of instance-level annotation, while semi-supervised object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Hanjun Li , Xingjia Pan , Ke Yan , Fan Tang , Wei-Shi Zheng

The impressive advancements in semi-supervised learning have driven researchers to explore its potential in object detection tasks within the field of computer vision. Semi-Supervised Object Detection (SSOD) leverages a combination of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Tahira Shehzadi , Ifza , Didier Stricker , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

Recent advances in semi-supervised object detection (SSOD) are largely driven by consistency-based pseudo-labeling methods for image classification tasks, producing pseudo labels as supervisory signals. However, when using pseudo labels,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Hengduo Li , Zuxuan Wu , Abhinav Shrivastava , Larry S. Davis

In training object detector based on convolutional neural networks, selection of effective positive examples for training is an important factor. However, when training an anchor-based detectors with sparse annotations on an image, effort…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Jihun Yoon , Seungbum Hong , Sanha Jeong , Min-Kook Choi

Semi-supervised object detection (SSOD) is a research hot spot in computer vision, which can greatly reduce the requirement for expensive bounding-box annotations. Despite great success, existing progress mainly focuses on two-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Gen Luo , Yiyi Zhou , Lei Jin , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

Exploiting pseudo labels (e.g., categories and bounding boxes) of unannotated objects produced by a teacher detector have underpinned much of recent progress in semi-supervised object detection (SSOD). However, due to the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Lei Zhang , Yuxuan Sun , Wei Wei