Edge–Cloud Collaborated Prototype Graph Network for Efficient Few-Shot Object Detection

doi:10.1109/JIOT.2026.3658853

Edge–Cloud Collaborated Prototype Graph Network for Efficient Few-Shot Object Detection

2026-01-28

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Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues

DOI：10.1109/JIOT.2026.3658853

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With the rapid development of industrial automation, few-shot object detection has emerged as a promising solution for recognizing novel categories using only limited annotated data. However, existing approaches often suffer from high computational complexity and limited adaptability when deployed in resource-constrained industrial environments. To achieve precise detection, efficiency, and security, this article proposes a collaborative computing framework based on an edge–cloud dual-prototype graph convolutional network (EC-DP-GCN) for few-shot object detection with hierarchical knowledge embedding. The framework comprises three key components: a device–EC architecture, a positive–negative prototype (PNP) module, and a class-prototype-sample-driven hierarchical graph (CPS-HG) module. Specifically, the PNP module explicitly models intraclass diversity by constructing discriminative positive and negative prototypes from limited support samples, thereby enhancing prototype representativeness. In addition, we further introduce the CPS-HG module, which treats the dual prototypes as class-based prior knowledge and models the relationships among samples through a hierarchical graph structure encompassing class, prototype, and sample levels. This design effectively expands the semantic margins in the embedding space to improve knowledge-guided detection. Extensive experiments on the PASCAL VOC and MS COCO benchmarks demonstrate that EC-DP-GCN significantly outperforms strong baselines and previous state-of-the-art methods, achieving an average improvement of 1.1% in 10-shot detection scenarios.

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Edge–cloud (EC) collaborative computing

few-shot object detection

hierarchical graph convolution network

industrial visual recognition

Edge–Cloud Collaborated Prototype Graph Network for Efficient Few-Shot Object Detection

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