Resolving Semantic Confusions for Improved Zero-Shot Detection

Zero-shot detection (ZSD) is a challenging task where we aim to recognize and localize objects simultaneously, even when our model has not been trained with visual samples of a few target ("unseen") classes. Recently, methods employing generative models like GANs have shown some of the best results, where unseen-class samples are generated based on their semantics by a GAN trained on seen-class data, enabling vanilla object detectors to recognize unseen objects. However, the problem of semantic confusion still remains, where the model is sometimes unable to distinguish between semantically-similar classes. In this work, we propose to train a generative model incorporating a triplet loss that acknowledges the degree of dissimilarity between classes and reflects them in the generated samples. Moreover, a cyclic-consistency loss is also enforced to ensure that generated visual samples of a class highly correspond to their own semantics. Extensive experiments on two benchmark ZSD datasets - MSCOCO and PASCAL-VOC - demonstrate significant gains over the current ZSD methods, reducing semantic confusion and improving detection for the unseen classes.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Generalized Zero-Shot Object Detection MS-COCO ZSD-SCR HM(mAP) 26.15 # 2
HM(Recall) 61.18 # 2
Zero-Shot Object Detection MS-COCO ZSD-SCR mAP 20.10 # 2
Recall 65.10 # 1
Zero-Shot Object Detection PASCAL VOC'07 ZSD-SCR mAP 62.70 # 4

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