Multimodal-Enhanced Objectness Learner for Corner Case Detection in Autonomous Driving
<|reference_start|>Multimodal-Enhanced Objectness Learner for Corner Case Detection in Autonomous Driving: Previous works on object detection have achieved high accuracy in closed-set scenarios, but their performance in open-world scenarios is not satisfactory. One of the challenging open-world problems is corner case detection in autonomous driving. Existing detectors struggle with these cases, relying heavily on visual appearance and exhibiting poor generalization ability. In this paper, we propose a solution by reducing the discrepancy between known and unknown classes and introduce a multimodal-enhanced objectness notion learner. Leveraging both vision-centric and image-text modalities, our semi-supervised learning framework imparts objectness knowledge to the student model, enabling class-aware detection. Our approach, Multimodal-Enhanced Objectness Learner (MENOL) for Corner Case Detection, significantly improves recall for novel classes with lower training costs. By achieving a 76.6% mAR-corner and 79.8% mAR-agnostic on the CODA-val dataset with just 5100 labeled training images, MENOL outperforms the baseline ORE by 71.3% and 60.6%, respectively. The code will be available at https://github.com/tryhiseyyysum/MENOL.<|reference_end|>
@article{xiao2024multimodal-enhanced,
    title={Multimodal-Enhanced Objectness Learner for Corner Case Detection in
  Autonomous Driving},
    author={Lixing Xiao, Ruixiao Shi, Xiaoyang Tang, Yi Zhou},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.02026},
    year={2024},
    doi={10.1109/ICIP51287.2024.10647363},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2402.02026},
    primaryClass={cs.CV cs.AI}
}