UADet: A Remarkably Simple Yet Effective Uncertainty-Aware Open-Set Object Detection Framework

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09229v1
• Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 12:38:33 GMT
• Title: UADet: A Remarkably Simple Yet Effective Uncertainty-Aware Open-Set Object Detection Framework
• Authors: Silin Cheng, Yuanpei Liu, Kai Han,
• Abstract summary: We tackle the problem of Open-Set Object Detection (OSOD), which aims to detect both known and unknown objects in unlabelled images. We propose UADet, an Uncertainty-Aware Open-Set Object Detector that considers appearance and geometric uncertainty.
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• Abstract: We tackle the challenging problem of Open-Set Object Detection (OSOD), which aims to detect both known and unknown objects in unlabelled images. The main difficulty arises from the absence of supervision for these unknown classes, making it challenging to distinguish them from the background. Existing OSOD detectors either fail to properly exploit or inadequately leverage the abundant unlabeled unknown objects in training data, restricting their performance. To address these limitations, we propose UADet, an Uncertainty-Aware Open-Set Object Detector that considers appearance and geometric uncertainty. By integrating these uncertainty measures, UADet effectively reduces the number of unannotated instances incorrectly utilized or omitted by previous methods. Extensive experiments on OSOD benchmarks demonstrate that UADet substantially outperforms previous state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods in detecting both known and unknown objects, achieving a 1.8x improvement in unknown recall while maintaining high performance on known classes. When extended to Open World Object Detection (OWOD), our method shows significant advantages over the current SOTA method, with average improvements of 13.8% and 6.9% in unknown recall on M-OWODB and S-OWODB benchmarks, respectively. Extensive results validate the effectiveness of our uncertainty-aware approach across different open-set scenarios.

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