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A Survey of Self-Supervised and Few-Shot Object Detection

27 Oct 2021arXiv:2110.14711archive 2025-07-28

Gabriel Huang, Issam Laradji, David Vazquez, Simon Lacoste-Julien, Pau Rodriguez

Labeling data is often expensive and time-consuming, especially for tasks such as object detection and instance segmentation, which require dense labeling of the image. While few-shot object detection is about training a model on novel (unseen) object classes with little data, it still requires prior training on many labeled examples of base (seen) classes. On the other hand, self-supervised methods aim at learning representations from unlabeled data which transfer well to downstream tasks such as object detection. Combining few-shot and self-supervised object detection is a promising research direction. In this survey, we review and characterize the most recent approaches on few-shot and self-supervised object detection. Then, we give our main takeaways and discuss future research directions. Project page at https://gabrielhuang.github.io/fsod-survey/

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