CLIP-Guided Source-Free Object Detection in Aerial Images

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05168v2
• Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 14:55:45 GMT
• Title: CLIP-Guided Source-Free Object Detection in Aerial Images
• Authors: Nanqing Liu, Xun Xu, Yongyi Su, Chengxin Liu, Peiliang Gong, Heng-Chao Li,
• Abstract summary: High-resolution aerial images often require substantial storage space and may not be readily accessible to the public. We propose a novel Source-Free Object Detection (SFOD) method to address these challenges. To alleviate the noisy labels in self-training, we utilize Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) to guide the generation of pseudo-labels. By leveraging CLIP's zero-shot classification capability, we aggregate its scores with the original predicted bounding boxes, enabling us to obtain refined scores for the pseudo-labels.
• Score: 17.26407623526735
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Domain adaptation is crucial in aerial imagery, as the visual representation of these images can significantly vary based on factors such as geographic location, time, and weather conditions. Additionally, high-resolution aerial images often require substantial storage space and may not be readily accessible to the public. To address these challenges, we propose a novel Source-Free Object Detection (SFOD) method. Specifically, our approach begins with a self-training framework, which significantly enhances the performance of baseline methods. To alleviate the noisy labels in self-training, we utilize Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) to guide the generation of pseudo-labels, termed CLIP-guided Aggregation (CGA). By leveraging CLIP's zero-shot classification capability, we aggregate its scores with the original predicted bounding boxes, enabling us to obtain refined scores for the pseudo-labels. To validate the effectiveness of our method, we constructed two new datasets from different domains based on the DIOR dataset, named DIOR-C and DIOR-Cloudy. Experimental results demonstrate that our method outperforms other comparative algorithms. The code is available at https://github.com/Lans1ng/SFOD-RS.

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