Detecting Twenty-thousand Classes using Image-level Supervision

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02605v2
• Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 02:32:28 GMT
• Title: Detecting Twenty-thousand Classes using Image-level Supervision
• Authors: Xingyi Zhou, Rohit Girdhar, Armand Joulin, Phillip Kr\"ahenb\"uhl, Ishan Misra
• Abstract summary: We propose Detic, which expands the vocabulary of detectors to tens of thousands of concepts. Unlike prior work, Detic does not assign image labels to boxes based on model predictions. For the first time, we train a detector with all the twenty-one-thousand classes of the ImageNet dataset.
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• Abstract: Current object detectors are limited in vocabulary size due to the small scale of detection datasets. Image classifiers, on the other hand, reason about much larger vocabularies, as their datasets are larger and easier to collect. We propose Detic, which simply trains the classifiers of a detector on image classification data and thus expands the vocabulary of detectors to tens of thousands of concepts. Unlike prior work, Detic does not assign image labels to boxes based on model predictions, making it much easier to implement and compatible with a range of detection architectures and backbones. Our results show that Detic yields excellent detectors even for classes without box annotations. It outperforms prior work on both open-vocabulary and long-tail detection benchmarks. Detic provides a gain of 2.4 mAP for all classes and 8.3 mAP for novel classes on the open-vocabulary LVIS benchmark. On the standard LVIS benchmark, Detic reaches 41.7 mAP for all classes and 41.7 mAP for rare classes. For the first time, we train a detector with all the twenty-one-thousand classes of the ImageNet dataset and show that it generalizes to new datasets without fine-tuning. Code is available at https://github.com/facebookresearch/Detic.

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