SBDet: A Symmetry-Breaking Object Detector via Relaxed Rotation-Equivariance

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.11760v1
• Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 16:32:03 GMT
• Title: SBDet: A Symmetry-Breaking Object Detector via Relaxed Rotation-Equivariance
• Authors: Zhiqiang Wu, Yingjie Liu, Hanlin Dong, Xuan Tang, Jian Yang, Bo Jin, Mingsong Chen, Xian Wei,
• Abstract summary: Group Equivariant Convolution (GConv) empowers models to explore symmetries hidden in visual data, improving their performance. Traditional GConv methods are limited by the strict operation rules in the group space, making it difficult to adapt to Symmetry-Breaking or non-rigid transformations. We propose a novel Relaxed Rotation-Equivariant Network (R2Net) as the backbone and further develop the Symmetry-Breaking Object Detector (SBDet) for 2D object detection built upon it.
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• Abstract: Introducing Group Equivariant Convolution (GConv) empowers models to explore symmetries hidden in visual data, improving their performance. However, in real-world scenarios, objects or scenes often exhibit perturbations of a symmetric system, specifically a deviation from a symmetric architecture, which can be characterized by a non-trivial action of a symmetry group, known as Symmetry-Breaking. Traditional GConv methods are limited by the strict operation rules in the group space, only ensuring features remain strictly equivariant under limited group transformations, making it difficult to adapt to Symmetry-Breaking or non-rigid transformations. Motivated by this, we introduce a novel Relaxed Rotation GConv (R2GConv) with our defined Relaxed Rotation-Equivariant group $\mathbf{R}_4$. Furthermore, we propose a Relaxed Rotation-Equivariant Network (R2Net) as the backbone and further develop the Symmetry-Breaking Object Detector (SBDet) for 2D object detection built upon it. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed R2GConv in natural image classification tasks, and SBDet achieves excellent performance in object detection tasks with improved generalization capabilities and robustness.

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