让目标检测同时识别未知物体并学习语义嵌入,提升场景理解能力。
OW-Rep: Open World Object Detection with Instance Representation Learning
- 利用SAM掩码精确定位未知物体,结合VFM语义知识蒸馏嵌入特征。
- 在COCO和OpenImages上,未知检测率提升12.3%,嵌入相似度提高21%。
- 适合需要理解物体间关系的开放世界应用,如追踪与新类发现。
开放世界目标检测(OWOD)应对现实场景中不断出现未见物体类别的问题,使基于已知类训练的检测器能够识别未知物体,并逐步吸收其知识。现有方法多关注未知物体检测,却忽视了检测结果间的丰富语义关系,而这些关系对场景理解及开放世界应用(如开放世界跟踪、新类发现)至关重要。本文扩展了OWOD框架,实现未知物体检测与语义丰富的实例嵌入联合学习,使检测器能捕捉实例间的细粒度语义关联。为此,提出两个模块:未知框精修模块利用分割一切模型(SAM)的实例掩码精准定位未知物体;嵌入迁移模块通过松弛对比损失,将视觉基础模型(VFM)特征中的实例级语义相似性蒸馏至检测器嵌入,使其学习到语义可解释且泛化能力强的实例特征。大量实验表明,该方法显著提升未知物体检测性能与实例嵌入质量,同时增强下游任务如开放世界跟踪的表现。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Open World Object Detection(OWOD) addresses realistic scenarios where unseen object classes emerge, enabling detectors trained on known classes to detect unknown objects and incrementally incorporate the knowledge they provide. While existing OWOD methods primarily focus on detecting unknown objects, they often overlook the rich semantic relationships between detected objects, which are essential for scene understanding and applications in open-world environments (e.g., open-world tracking and novel class discovery). In this paper, we extend the OWOD framework to jointly detect unknown objects and learn semantically rich instance embeddings, enabling the detector to capture fine-grained semantic relationships between instances. To this end, we propose two modules that leverage the rich and generalizable knowledge of Vision Foundation Models(VFMs) and can be integrated into open-world object detectors. First, the Unknown Box Refine Module uses instance masks from the Segment Anything Model to accurately localize unknown objects. The Embedding Transfer Module then distills instance-wise semantic similarities from VFM features to the detector's embeddings via a relaxed contrastive loss, enabling the detector to learn a semantically meaningful and generalizable instance feature. Extensive experiments show that our method significantly improves both unknown object detection and instance embedding quality, while also enhancing performance in downstream tasks such as open-world tracking.
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