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Main Authors: Agarwal, Vikhyat, Guo, Jiayi Cora, Hoban, Declan, Zhang, Sissi, Moran, Nicholas, Cho, Peter, Pattabiraman, Srilakshmi, Joshi, Shantanu
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.23450
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author Agarwal, Vikhyat
Guo, Jiayi Cora
Hoban, Declan
Zhang, Sissi
Moran, Nicholas
Cho, Peter
Pattabiraman, Srilakshmi
Joshi, Shantanu
author_facet Agarwal, Vikhyat
Guo, Jiayi Cora
Hoban, Declan
Zhang, Sissi
Moran, Nicholas
Cho, Peter
Pattabiraman, Srilakshmi
Joshi, Shantanu
contents Deep learning approaches to object detection have achieved reliable detection of specific object classes in images. However, extending a model's detection capability to new object classes requires large amounts of annotated training data, which is costly and time-consuming to acquire, especially for long-tailed classes with insufficient representation in existing datasets. Here, we introduce the object-centric data setting, when limited data is available in the form of object-centric data (multi-view images or 3D models), and systematically evaluate the performance of four different data synthesis methods to finetune object detection models on novel object categories in this setting. The approaches are based on simple image processing techniques, 3D rendering, and image diffusion models, and use object-centric data to synthesize realistic, cluttered images with varying contextual coherence and complexity. We assess how these methods enable models to achieve category-level generalization in real-world data, and demonstrate significant performance boosts within this data-constrained experimental setting.
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spellingShingle Object-Centric Data Synthesis for Category-level Object Detection
Agarwal, Vikhyat
Guo, Jiayi Cora
Hoban, Declan
Zhang, Sissi
Moran, Nicholas
Cho, Peter
Pattabiraman, Srilakshmi
Joshi, Shantanu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Deep learning approaches to object detection have achieved reliable detection of specific object classes in images. However, extending a model's detection capability to new object classes requires large amounts of annotated training data, which is costly and time-consuming to acquire, especially for long-tailed classes with insufficient representation in existing datasets. Here, we introduce the object-centric data setting, when limited data is available in the form of object-centric data (multi-view images or 3D models), and systematically evaluate the performance of four different data synthesis methods to finetune object detection models on novel object categories in this setting. The approaches are based on simple image processing techniques, 3D rendering, and image diffusion models, and use object-centric data to synthesize realistic, cluttered images with varying contextual coherence and complexity. We assess how these methods enable models to achieve category-level generalization in real-world data, and demonstrate significant performance boosts within this data-constrained experimental setting.
title Object-Centric Data Synthesis for Category-level Object Detection
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.23450