Frozen-DETR: Enhancing DETR with Image Understanding from Frozen Foundation Models

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Autori principali: Fu, Shenghao, Yan, Junkai, Yang, Qize, Wei, Xihan, Xie, Xiaohua, Zheng, Wei-Shi
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author Fu, Shenghao
Yan, Junkai
Yang, Qize
Wei, Xihan
Xie, Xiaohua
Zheng, Wei-Shi
author_facet Fu, Shenghao
Yan, Junkai
Yang, Qize
Wei, Xihan
Xie, Xiaohua
Zheng, Wei-Shi
contents Recent vision foundation models can extract universal representations and show impressive abilities in various tasks. However, their application on object detection is largely overlooked, especially without fine-tuning them. In this work, we show that frozen foundation models can be a versatile feature enhancer, even though they are not pre-trained for object detection. Specifically, we explore directly transferring the high-level image understanding of foundation models to detectors in the following two ways. First, the class token in foundation models provides an in-depth understanding of the complex scene, which facilitates decoding object queries in the detector's decoder by providing a compact context. Additionally, the patch tokens in foundation models can enrich the features in the detector's encoder by providing semantic details. Utilizing frozen foundation models as plug-and-play modules rather than the commonly used backbone can significantly enhance the detector's performance while preventing the problems caused by the architecture discrepancy between the detector's backbone and the foundation model. With such a novel paradigm, we boost the SOTA query-based detector DINO from 49.0% AP to 51.9% AP (+2.9% AP) and further to 53.8% AP (+4.8% AP) by integrating one or two foundation models respectively, on the COCO validation set after training for 12 epochs with R50 as the detector's backbone.
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spellingShingle Frozen-DETR: Enhancing DETR with Image Understanding from Frozen Foundation Models
Fu, Shenghao
Yan, Junkai
Yang, Qize
Wei, Xihan
Xie, Xiaohua
Zheng, Wei-Shi
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Recent vision foundation models can extract universal representations and show impressive abilities in various tasks. However, their application on object detection is largely overlooked, especially without fine-tuning them. In this work, we show that frozen foundation models can be a versatile feature enhancer, even though they are not pre-trained for object detection. Specifically, we explore directly transferring the high-level image understanding of foundation models to detectors in the following two ways. First, the class token in foundation models provides an in-depth understanding of the complex scene, which facilitates decoding object queries in the detector's decoder by providing a compact context. Additionally, the patch tokens in foundation models can enrich the features in the detector's encoder by providing semantic details. Utilizing frozen foundation models as plug-and-play modules rather than the commonly used backbone can significantly enhance the detector's performance while preventing the problems caused by the architecture discrepancy between the detector's backbone and the foundation model. With such a novel paradigm, we boost the SOTA query-based detector DINO from 49.0% AP to 51.9% AP (+2.9% AP) and further to 53.8% AP (+4.8% AP) by integrating one or two foundation models respectively, on the COCO validation set after training for 12 epochs with R50 as the detector's backbone.
title Frozen-DETR: Enhancing DETR with Image Understanding from Frozen Foundation Models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19635