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Multi-modal Queried Object Detection in the Wild

30 May 2023NeurIPS 2023 11arXiv:2305.18980archive 2025-07-28

Yifan Xu, Mengdan Zhang, Chaoyou Fu, Peixian Chen, Xiaoshan Yang, Ke Li, Changsheng Xu

We introduce MQ-Det, an efficient architecture and pre-training strategy design to utilize both textual description with open-set generalization and visual exemplars with rich description granularity as category queries, namely, Multi-modal Queried object Detection, for real-world detection with both open-vocabulary categories and various granularity. MQ-Det incorporates vision queries into existing well-established language-queried-only detectors. A plug-and-play gated class-scalable perceiver module upon the frozen detector is proposed to augment category text with class-wise visual information. To address the learning inertia problem brought by the frozen detector, a vision conditioned masked language prediction strategy is proposed. MQ-Det's simple yet effective architecture and training strategy design is compatible with most language-queried object detectors, thus yielding versatile applications. Experimental results demonstrate that multi-modal queries largely boost open-world detection. For instance, MQ-Det significantly improves the state-of-the-art open-set detector GLIP by +7.8% AP on the LVIS benchmark via multi-modal queries without any downstream finetuning, and averagely +6.3% AP on 13 few-shot downstream tasks, with merely additional 3% modulating time required by GLIP. Code is available at https://github.com/YifanXu74/MQ-Det.

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Few-Shot Object DetectionObjectObject DetectionZero-Shot Object Detectionobject-detection

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Few-Shot Object Detection ODinW-13 MQ-GLIP-T Average Score 57 #2 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Few-Shot Object Detection ODinW-35 MQ-GLIP-T Average Score 43 #2 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Object Detection ODinW Full-Shot 13 Tasks MQ-GLIP-L AP 71.3 #4 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Object Detection LVIS v1.0 minival MQ-GLIP-L AP 43.4 #5 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Object Detection LVIS v1.0 minival MQ-GLIP-T AP 30.4 #10 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Object Detection LVIS v1.0 minival MQ-GroundingDINO-T AP 30.2 #11 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Object Detection LVIS v1.0 val MQ-GLIP-L AP 34.7 #5 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Object Detection LVIS v1.0 val MQ-GLIP-T AP 22.6 #8 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Object Detection LVIS v1.0 val MQ-GroundingDINO-T AP 22.1 #9 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Object Detection ODinW MQ-GLIP-L Average Score 23.9 #4 of 5 Archive leaderboard report

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