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Object Detection Data Synthesis via Box-to-Image Generation Based on Diffusion Models

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Jingyuan Zhu
马惠敏 (Huimin Ma)
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Jiansheng Chen
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Jian Yuan
DOI:10.1109/TPAMI.2025.3609962delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Modern diffusion-based image generative models have made significant progress and become promising to enrich training data for the object detection task. However, the generation quality and the controllability for complex scenes containing multi-class objects and dense objects with occlusions remain limited. This paper presents ODGEN, a novel method to generate high-quality images conditioned on bounding boxes, thereby facilitating data synthesis for object detection. Given a domain-specific object detection dataset, we first fine-tune a pre-trained diffusion model on both cropped foreground objects and entire images to fit target distributions. Then we propose to control the diffusion model using synthesized visual prompts with spatial constraints and object-wise textual descriptions. ODGEN exhibits robustness in handling complex scenes and specific domains. Further, we design a dataset synthesis pipeline to evaluate ODGEN on 7 domain-specific benchmarks to demonstrate its effectiveness. Adding training data generated by ODGEN improves up to 25.3% mAP@.50:.95 with object detectors like YOLOv5 and YOLOv7, outperforming prior controllable generative methods. We also design an evaluation protocol based on COCO-2014 to validate the synthetic data of ODGEN in general domains and observe an advantage up to 5.6% in mAP@.50:.95 against existing methods. In addition, we employ a series of large-scale object detection datasets to train a general model named Stable Box Diffusion, which covers thousands of object categories in most common scenes.
Keywords:
Domain-specific
layout-to-image generation
object detection datasets synthesis
diffusion models

Journal

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence cover
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
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18.6
Papers:
831
Citations:
9.8W

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tsinghua university
Scholars:
11.8W
Papers: 10.0W
Citations: 137
U
university of science and technology beijing
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1.2W
Papers: 4.4K
Citations: 2