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Source-Free Object Detection With Detection Transformer

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Huizai Yao
赵思成 (Sicheng Zhao)
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S. Lu
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Hui Chen
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Yangyang Li
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刘国平 (Guoping Liu)
T
Tengfei Xing
C
Chenggang Yan
陶建华 (Jianhua Tao)
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丁贵广 (Guiguang Ding)
DOI:10.1109/TIP.2025.3607621delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Source-Free Object Detection (SFOD) enables knowledge transfer from a source domain to an unsupervised target domain for object detection without access to source data. Most existing SFOD approaches are either confined to conventional object detection (OD) models like Faster R-CNN or designed as general solutions without tailored adaptations for novel OD architectures, especially Detection Transformer (DETR). In this paper, we introduce Feature Reweighting ANd Contrastive Learning NetworK (FRANCK), a novel SFOD framework specifically designed to perform query-centric feature enhancement for DETRs. FRANCK comprises four key components: 1) an Objectness Score-based Sample Reweighting (OSSR) module that computes attention-based objectness scores on multi-scale encoder feature maps, reweighting the detection loss to emphasize less-recognized regions; 2) a Contrastive Learning with Matching-based Memory Bank (CMMB) module that integrates multi-level features into memory banks, enhancing class-wise contrastive learning; 3) an Uncertainty-weighted Query-fused Feature Distillation (UQFD) module that improves feature distillation through prediction quality reweighting and query feature fusion; and 4) an improved self-training pipeline with a Dynamic Teacher Updating Interval (DTUI) that optimizes pseudo-label quality. By leveraging these components, FRANCK effectively adapts a source-pre-trained DETR model to a target domain with enhanced robustness and generalization. Extensive experiments on several widely used benchmarks demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance, highlighting its effectiveness and compatibility with DETR-based SFOD models.
Keywords:
Transfer learning
object detection
source-free domain adaptation
contrastive learning

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IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
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Institute of Automation
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Hangzhou Dianzi University
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tsinghua university
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didi chuxing, beijing, china
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