MultIOD: Rehearsal-free Multihead Incremental Object Detector

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Main Authors: Belouadah, Eden, Dapogny, Arnaud, Bailly, Kevin
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author Belouadah, Eden
Dapogny, Arnaud
Bailly, Kevin
author_facet Belouadah, Eden
Dapogny, Arnaud
Bailly, Kevin
contents Class-Incremental learning (CIL) refers to the ability of artificial agents to integrate new classes as they appear in a stream. It is particularly interesting in evolving environments where agents have limited access to memory and computational resources. The main challenge of incremental learning is catastrophic forgetting, the inability of neural networks to retain past knowledge when learning a new one. Unfortunately, most existing class-incremental methods for object detection are applied to two-stage algorithms such as Faster-RCNN, and rely on rehearsal memory to retain past knowledge. We argue that those are not suitable in resource-limited environments, and more effort should be dedicated to anchor-free and rehearsal-free object detection. In this paper, we propose MultIOD, a class-incremental object detector based on CenterNet. Our contributions are: (1) we propose a multihead feature pyramid and multihead detection architecture to efficiently separate class representations, (2) we employ transfer learning between classes learned initially and those learned incrementally to tackle catastrophic forgetting, and (3) we use a class-wise non-max-suppression as a post-processing technique to remove redundant boxes. Results show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art methods on two Pascal VOC datasets, while only saving the model in its current state, contrary to other distillation-based counterparts.
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spellingShingle MultIOD: Rehearsal-free Multihead Incremental Object Detector
Belouadah, Eden
Dapogny, Arnaud
Bailly, Kevin
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Class-Incremental learning (CIL) refers to the ability of artificial agents to integrate new classes as they appear in a stream. It is particularly interesting in evolving environments where agents have limited access to memory and computational resources. The main challenge of incremental learning is catastrophic forgetting, the inability of neural networks to retain past knowledge when learning a new one. Unfortunately, most existing class-incremental methods for object detection are applied to two-stage algorithms such as Faster-RCNN, and rely on rehearsal memory to retain past knowledge. We argue that those are not suitable in resource-limited environments, and more effort should be dedicated to anchor-free and rehearsal-free object detection. In this paper, we propose MultIOD, a class-incremental object detector based on CenterNet. Our contributions are: (1) we propose a multihead feature pyramid and multihead detection architecture to efficiently separate class representations, (2) we employ transfer learning between classes learned initially and those learned incrementally to tackle catastrophic forgetting, and (3) we use a class-wise non-max-suppression as a post-processing technique to remove redundant boxes. Results show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art methods on two Pascal VOC datasets, while only saving the model in its current state, contrary to other distillation-based counterparts.
title MultIOD: Rehearsal-free Multihead Incremental Object Detector
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05334