Electronic Science and Technology ›› 2024, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (8): 75-83.doi: 10.16180/j.cnki.issn1007-7820.2024.08.011

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Non-Local Support Attention Network for Few-Shot Object Detection

XIE Xijun, LI Feifei   

  1. School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering,University of Shanghai for Science and Technology,Shanghai 200093,China
  • Received:2023-03-13 Online:2024-08-15 Published:2024-08-21
  • Supported by:
    Program for Professor of Special Appointment(Eastern Scholar) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning(ES2015XX)

Abstract:

The key point of current research on few-shot object detection based on meta-learning is how to make better use of the information of support branch to help query branch to recognize novel objects more effectively. However, many current methods fuse the features from support branch and query branch in the depth direction, ignoring the spatial position relationship between features. Therefore, this study proposes non-local support attention network. This method not only adds support information into the proposals features, but also fuses the support information with the features that fed into region proposal network. The spatial position relationship between features is considered at the same time. It also adds the information of negative supports to the detection module to help the model distinguish the objects from different categories. This method obtains good performance on base classes and novel classes of COCO2017 dataset, particularly under the case of incremental learning. Compared with method before improvement, 3.3/3.8/4.7 mAP is increased in AP/AP50/AP75 of novel classes. 2.7/0.5/3.3 mAP is increased in AP/AP50/AP75 of the base classes, and outperformed the performance of SOTA(Sort-Of-The-Art) model DAnA(Dual-Awareness Attention) under the same setting.

Key words: object detection, few-shot learning, meta-learning, incremental learning, feature fusion, attention, non-local, fine-tuning

CLC Number: 

  • TP391