Developing object perception in the low data regime

<p>Objects are central to human perception and understanding of the world. There is an abundance of images available on the internet covering the vast number of objects in the world, however, labelling these images exhaustively to cover all objects is infeasible—limiting the utility of systems...

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Main Author: Kaul, P
Other Authors: Zisserman, A
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2024
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description <p>Objects are central to human perception and understanding of the world. There is an abundance of images available on the internet covering the vast number of objects in the world, however, labelling these images exhaustively to cover all objects is infeasible—limiting the utility of systems requiring strong supervision through large labelled datasets. To address this issue, this thesis develops methods to enable novel objects to be learnt with limited use of manually labelled data.</p> <p>First, we consider the problem of few-shot object detection, which is the problem of learning to expand the set of objects which can be detected with only a few manually labelled examples. We show that the few examples available for novel categories can be used to accurately pseudo-label existing data to yield a large number of novel pseudo-annotations for further detector training.</p> <p>Second, we address the more challenging problem of open-vocabulary object detection, which requires learning to detect novel object categories with no annotated data. We demonstrate the utility of detailed natural language descriptions to provide additional visual information for novel object detection. Moreover, we show that visual exemplars can be aggregated and combined with object descriptions to yield multi-modal classifiers for superior novel object detection.</p> <p>Finally, we consider the problem of object hallucinations in large vision-language models. We propose an automatic method to evaluate the presence of object hallucinations in detailed natural language descriptions of images generated by large vision-language models. We make use of language models and labelled detection data to automatically and robustly analyse the presence of object hallucinations in generated descriptions.</p>
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spelling oxford-uuid:bc157b41-02c1-403f-8a66-4489fea8494c2024-04-19T10:31:21ZDeveloping object perception in the low data regimeThesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:bc157b41-02c1-403f-8a66-4489fea8494cComputer visionDeep learning (Machine learning)EnglishHyrax Deposit2024Kaul, PZisserman, AXie, WPhilipp, KTorr, P<p>Objects are central to human perception and understanding of the world. There is an abundance of images available on the internet covering the vast number of objects in the world, however, labelling these images exhaustively to cover all objects is infeasible—limiting the utility of systems requiring strong supervision through large labelled datasets. To address this issue, this thesis develops methods to enable novel objects to be learnt with limited use of manually labelled data.</p> <p>First, we consider the problem of few-shot object detection, which is the problem of learning to expand the set of objects which can be detected with only a few manually labelled examples. We show that the few examples available for novel categories can be used to accurately pseudo-label existing data to yield a large number of novel pseudo-annotations for further detector training.</p> <p>Second, we address the more challenging problem of open-vocabulary object detection, which requires learning to detect novel object categories with no annotated data. We demonstrate the utility of detailed natural language descriptions to provide additional visual information for novel object detection. Moreover, we show that visual exemplars can be aggregated and combined with object descriptions to yield multi-modal classifiers for superior novel object detection.</p> <p>Finally, we consider the problem of object hallucinations in large vision-language models. We propose an automatic method to evaluate the presence of object hallucinations in detailed natural language descriptions of images generated by large vision-language models. We make use of language models and labelled detection data to automatically and robustly analyse the presence of object hallucinations in generated descriptions.</p>
spellingShingle Computer vision
Deep learning (Machine learning)
Kaul, P
Developing object perception in the low data regime
title Developing object perception in the low data regime
title_full Developing object perception in the low data regime
title_fullStr Developing object perception in the low data regime
title_full_unstemmed Developing object perception in the low data regime
title_short Developing object perception in the low data regime
title_sort developing object perception in the low data regime
topic Computer vision
Deep learning (Machine learning)
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