针对太空目标检测中极端背景干扰问题,提出双阶段稳定学习框架。
Dual-Stage Invariant Continual Learning under Extreme Visual Sparsity
- 分两阶段联合蒸馏,稳定特征提取与检测输出
- 在序列域迁移下提升4.0 mAP性能
- 适合极端稀疏视觉场景的持续学习任务
持续学习旨在应对非平稳环境下的稳定适应,但在目标检测中,现有方法多假设视觉条件相对均衡。在极端稀疏场景(如基于空间的静止空间物体检测)中,前景信号被背景观测严重压制。我们分析表明,背景驱动的梯度会引发特征主干的不稳定性,导致表征渐进漂移。这暴露了仅依赖输出层蒸馏的持续学习方法在中间表征稳定性上的结构性缺陷。为此,我们提出一种双阶段不变持续学习框架,通过联合蒸馏,在特征主干与检测预测上分别强制结构与语义一致性,从而从源头抑制误差传播并保持适应能力。此外,为在严重不平衡条件下调控梯度统计,引入一种稀疏感知数据调节策略,结合基于块的采样与分布感知增强。在高分辨率空间基RSO检测数据集上的实验显示,该方法在序列域迁移下显著优于现有持续目标检测方法,绝对提升4.0 mAP。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Continual learning seeks to maintain stable adaptation under non-stationary environments, yet this problem becomes particularly challenging in object detection, where most existing methods implicitly assume relatively balanced visual conditions. In extreme-sparsity regimes, such as those observed in space-based resident space object (RSO) detection scenarios, foreground signals are overwhelmingly dominated by background observations. Under such conditions, we analytically demonstrate that background-driven gradients destabilize the feature backbone during sequential domain shifts, causing progressive representation drift. This exposes a structural limitation of continual learning approaches relying solely on output-level distillation, as they fail to preserve intermediate representation stability. To address this, we propose a dual-stage invariant continual learning framework via joint distillation, enforcing structural and semantic consistency on both backbone representations and detection predictions, respectively, thereby suppressing error propagation at its source while maintaining adaptability. Furthermore, to regulate gradient statistics under severe imbalance, we introduce a sparsity-aware data conditioning strategy combining patch-based sampling and distribution-aware augmentation. Experiments on a high-resolution space-based RSO detection dataset show consistent improvement over established continual object detection methods, achieving an absolute gain of +4.0 mAP under sequential domain shifts.
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