Knowledge combination to learn rotated detection without rotated annotation

Tianyu Zhu, Bryce Ferenczi, Pulak Purkait, Tom Drummond, Hamid Rezatofighi, Anton Van Den Hengel

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Abstract

Rotated bounding boxes drastically reduce output ambiguity of elongated objects, making it superior to axis-aligned bounding boxes. Despite the effectiveness, rotated detectors are not widely employed. Annotating rotated bounding boxes is such a laborious process that they are not provided in many detection datasets where axis-aligned annotations are used instead. In this paper, we propose a framework that allows the model to predict precise rotated boxes only requiring cheaper axis-aligned annotation of the target dataset 1. To achieve this, we leverage the fact that neural networks are capable of learning richer representation of the target domain than what is utilized by the task. The under-utilized representation can be exploited to address a more detailed task. Our framework combines task knowledge of an out-of-domain source dataset with stronger annotation and domain knowledge of the target dataset with weaker annotation. A novel assignment process and projection loss are used to enable the cotraining on the source and target datasets. As a result, the model is able to solve the more detailed task in the target domain, without additional computation overhead during inference. We extensively evaluate the method on various target datasets including fresh-produce dataset, HRSC2016 and SSDD. Results show that the proposed method consistently performs on par with the fully supervised approach.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2023
EditorsEric Mortensen
Place of PublicationPiscataway NJ USA
PublisherIEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages15518-15527
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9798350301298
ISBN (Print)9798350301304
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
EventIEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023 - Vancouver, Canada
Duration: 18 Jun 202322 Jun 2023
https://cvpr2023.thecvf.com/ (Website)
https://openaccess.thecvf.com/CVPR2023?day=all (Proceedings)
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/10203037/proceeding (Proceedings)
https://cvpr2023.thecvf.com/Conferences/2023 (Website)

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
PublisherIEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Volume2023-June
ISSN (Print)1063-6919

Conference

ConferenceIEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023
Abbreviated titleCVPR 2023
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver
Period18/06/2322/06/23
Internet address

Keywords

  • detection
  • Recognition: Categorization
  • retrieval

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