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HOICLIP: Efficient Knowledge Transfer for HOI Detection with Vision-Language Models

28 Mar 2023CVPR 2023 1arXiv:2303.15786archive 2025-07-28

Shan Ning, Longtian Qiu, Yongfei Liu, Xuming He

Human-Object Interaction (HOI) detection aims to localize human-object pairs and recognize their interactions. Recently, Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has shown great potential in providing interaction prior for HOI detectors via knowledge distillation. However, such approaches often rely on large-scale training data and suffer from inferior performance under few/zero-shot scenarios. In this paper, we propose a novel HOI detection framework that efficiently extracts prior knowledge from CLIP and achieves better generalization. In detail, we first introduce a novel interaction decoder to extract informative regions in the visual feature map of CLIP via a cross-attention mechanism, which is then fused with the detection backbone by a knowledge integration block for more accurate human-object pair detection. In addition, prior knowledge in CLIP text encoder is leveraged to generate a classifier by embedding HOI descriptions. To distinguish fine-grained interactions, we build a verb classifier from training data via visual semantic arithmetic and a lightweight verb representation adapter. Furthermore, we propose a training-free enhancement to exploit global HOI predictions from CLIP. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method outperforms the state of the art by a large margin on various settings, e.g. +4.04 mAP on HICO-Det. The source code is available in https://github.com/Artanic30/HOICLIP.

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DecoderHuman-Object Interaction DetectionKnowledge DistillationObjectTransfer Learning

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Human-Object Interaction Detection HICO-DET HOICLIP mAP 34.69 #16 of 55 Archive leaderboard report
Human-Object Interaction Detection V-COCO HOICLIP AP(S1) 63.50 #8 of 34 Archive leaderboard report
Human-Object Interaction Detection V-COCO HOICLIP AP(S2) 64.81 #8 of 34 Archive leaderboard report

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