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Few-Shot Object Detection by Attending to Per-Sample-Prototype

16 Sep 2021arXiv:2109.07734archive 2025-07-28

Hojun Lee, Myunggi Lee, Nojun Kwak

Few-shot object detection aims to detect instances of specific categories in a query image with only a handful of support samples. Although this takes less effort than obtaining enough annotated images for supervised object detection, it results in a far inferior performance compared to the conventional object detection methods. In this paper, we propose a meta-learning-based approach that considers the unique characteristics of each support sample. Rather than simply averaging the information of the support samples to generate a single prototype per category, our method can better utilize the information of each support sample by treating each support sample as an individual prototype. Specifically, we introduce two types of attention mechanisms for aggregating the query and support feature maps. The first is to refine the information of few-shot samples by extracting shared information between the support samples through attention. Second, each support sample is used as a class code to leverage the information by comparing similarities between each support feature and query features. Our proposed method is complementary to the previous methods, making it easy to plug and play for further improvement. We have evaluated our method on PASCAL VOC and COCO benchmarks, and the results verify the effectiveness of our method. In particular, the advantages of our method are maximized when there is more diversity among support data.

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Few-Shot Object DetectionMeta-LearningObjectObject Detectionobject-detection

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Few-Shot Object Detection MS-COCO (10-shot) FSDetView + PSP AP 13.4 #19 of 33 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Object Detection MS-COCO (30-shot) FsDetView + PSP AP 17.1 #15 of 25 Archive leaderboard report

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