Language Prompt vs. Image Enhancement: Boosting Object Detection With CLIP in Hazy Environments
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| author | Pang, Jian Zhang, Bingfeng Wang, Jin Liu, Baodi Tao, Dapeng Liu, Weifeng |
| author_facet | Pang, Jian Zhang, Bingfeng Wang, Jin Liu, Baodi Tao, Dapeng Liu, Weifeng |
| contents | Object detection in hazy environments is challenging because degraded objects are nearly invisible and their semantics are weakened by environmental noise, making it difficult for detectors to identify. Common approaches involve image enhancement to boost weakened semantics, but these methods are limited by the instability of enhanced modules. This paper proposes a novel solution by employing language prompts to enhance weakened semantics without image enhancement. Specifically, we design Approximation of Mutual Exclusion (AME) to provide credible weights for Cross-Entropy Loss, resulting in CLIP-guided Cross-Entropy Loss (CLIP-CE). The provided weights assess the semantic weakening of objects. Through the backpropagation of CLIP-CE, weakened semantics are enhanced, making degraded objects easier to detect. In addition, we present Fine-tuned AME (FAME) which adaptively fine-tunes the weight of AME based on the predicted confidence. The proposed FAME compensates for the imbalanced optimization in AME. Furthermore, we present HazyCOCO, a large-scale synthetic hazy dataset comprising 61258 images. Experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance. The code and dataset will be released. |
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| spellingShingle | Language Prompt vs. Image Enhancement: Boosting Object Detection With CLIP in Hazy Environments Pang, Jian Zhang, Bingfeng Wang, Jin Liu, Baodi Tao, Dapeng Liu, Weifeng Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Object detection in hazy environments is challenging because degraded objects are nearly invisible and their semantics are weakened by environmental noise, making it difficult for detectors to identify. Common approaches involve image enhancement to boost weakened semantics, but these methods are limited by the instability of enhanced modules. This paper proposes a novel solution by employing language prompts to enhance weakened semantics without image enhancement. Specifically, we design Approximation of Mutual Exclusion (AME) to provide credible weights for Cross-Entropy Loss, resulting in CLIP-guided Cross-Entropy Loss (CLIP-CE). The provided weights assess the semantic weakening of objects. Through the backpropagation of CLIP-CE, weakened semantics are enhanced, making degraded objects easier to detect. In addition, we present Fine-tuned AME (FAME) which adaptively fine-tunes the weight of AME based on the predicted confidence. The proposed FAME compensates for the imbalanced optimization in AME. Furthermore, we present HazyCOCO, a large-scale synthetic hazy dataset comprising 61258 images. Experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance. The code and dataset will be released. |
| title | Language Prompt vs. Image Enhancement: Boosting Object Detection With CLIP in Hazy Environments |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.10637 |