Incremental Human-Object Interaction Detection with Invariant Relation Representation Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.27020v1
• Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:59:34 GMT
• Title: Incremental Human-Object Interaction Detection with Invariant Relation Representation Learning
• Authors: Yana Wei, Zeen Chi, Chongyu Wang, Yu Wu, Shipeng Yan, Yongfei Liu, Xuming He,
• Abstract summary: In open-world environments, human-object interactions (HOIs) evolve continuously, challenging conventional closed-world HOI detection models.<n>Inspired by humans' ability to progressively acquire knowledge, we explore incremental HOI detection (IHOID) to develop agents capable of discerning human-object relations in such dynamic environments.<n>We propose a novel exemplar-free incremental relation distillation (IRD) framework. IRD decouples the learning of objects and relations, and introduces two unique distillation losses for learning invariant relation features across different HOI combinations that share the same relation.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In open-world environments, human-object interactions (HOIs) evolve continuously, challenging conventional closed-world HOI detection models. Inspired by humans' ability to progressively acquire knowledge, we explore incremental HOI detection (IHOID) to develop agents capable of discerning human-object relations in such dynamic environments. This setup confronts not only the common issue of catastrophic forgetting in incremental learning but also distinct challenges posed by interaction drift and detecting zero-shot HOI combinations with sequentially arriving data. Therefore, we propose a novel exemplar-free incremental relation distillation (IRD) framework. IRD decouples the learning of objects and relations, and introduces two unique distillation losses for learning invariant relation features across different HOI combinations that share the same relation. Extensive experiments on HICO-DET and V-COCO datasets demonstrate the superiority of our method over state-of-the-art baselines in mitigating forgetting, strengthening robustness against interaction drift, and generalization on zero-shot HOIs. Code is available at \href{https://github.com/weiyana/ContinualHOI}{this HTTP URL}

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