Dual-Thresholding Heatmaps to Cluster Proposals for Weakly Supervised Object Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08289v1
• Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 05:12:03 GMT
• Title: Dual-Thresholding Heatmaps to Cluster Proposals for Weakly Supervised Object Detection
• Authors: Yuelin Guo, Haoyu He, Zhiyuan Chen, Zitong Huang, Renhao Lu, Lu Shi, Zejun Wang, Weizhe Zhang,
• Abstract summary: Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) has attracted significant attention in recent years.<n>We present a weakly supervised basic detection network (WSBDN), which augments each proposal with a background class representation.<n>We achieve mAP/mCorLoc scores of 58.5%/81.8% on VOC 2007 and 55.6%/80.5% on VOC 2012, performing favorably against the state-of-the-art WSOD methods.
• Score: 19.807828545088082
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) has attracted significant attention in recent years, as it does not require box-level annotations. State-of-the-art methods generally adopt a multi-module network, which employs WSDDN as the multiple instance detection network module and multiple instance refinement modules to refine performance. However, these approaches suffer from three key limitations. First, existing methods tend to generate pseudo GT boxes that either focus only on discriminative parts, failing to capture the whole object, or cover the entire object but fail to distinguish between adjacent intra-class instances. Second, the foundational WSDDN architecture lacks a crucial background class representation for each proposal and exhibits a large semantic gap between its branches. Third, prior methods discard ignored proposals during optimization, leading to slow convergence. To address these challenges, we first design a heatmap-guided proposal selector (HGPS) algorithm, which utilizes dual thresholds on heatmaps to pre-select proposals, enabling pseudo GT boxes to both capture the full object extent and distinguish between adjacent intra-class instances. We then present a weakly supervised basic detection network (WSBDN), which augments each proposal with a background class representation and uses heatmaps for pre-supervision to bridge the semantic gap between matrices. At last, we introduce a negative certainty supervision loss on ignored proposals to accelerate convergence. Extensive experiments on the challenging PASCAL VOC 2007 and 2012 datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework. We achieve mAP/mCorLoc scores of 58.5%/81.8% on VOC 2007 and 55.6%/80.5% on VOC 2012, performing favorably against the state-of-the-art WSOD methods. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/gyl2565309278/DTH-CP.

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