Context-Aware Feature-Fusion for Co-occurring Object Detection in Autonomous DrivingBinay Kumar Singh, Niels Da Vitoria Lobo
Object detection in autonomous driving requires precise localization and an inherent understanding of the relational context between co-occurring objects. In extremely complex heterogeneous environments rare classes, small-scale objects, and frequently appearing objects are difficult for standard object detection frameworks to handle. In this paper, we propose a novel framework called Context-Centric Feature Fusion (CCFF), which utilizes two attention-based modules, Local Context Fusion Module (LCFM) uses the RoI-to-RoI self-attention mechanism to resolve spatial interactions, mainly considering small and partially obscured objects, while Global Context Attention Module (GCAM) converts the co-occurrence of objects priors by pooling top-K RoI features into a global context attention token, avoiding the computational overhead of pixel-level global pooling. This fusion of local and object-centric global features yields contextualized embeddings that enhance classification results and co-occurring objects detection. Our method is evaluated on two datasets, Cityscapes and BDD100K which demonstrate significant improvement on relational consistency, achieving a Category-level Consistency Strategy (CCS) of 0.973 and 0.969, respectively. Furthermore, our approach produces substantial gains in small object detection (AP_S: 14.1%) and successfully recovers rare classes such as "Train" that are typically lost in large distributions. Our efficiency report shows that the framework processes images in real time with a 0.2 FPS overhead. The code is available at https://github.com/BinayKSingh/CCFF.
2.0CVJul 24, 2024
SDLNet: Statistical Deep Learning Network for Co-Occurring Object Detection and IdentificationBinay Kumar Singh, Niels Da Vitoria Lobo
With the growing advances in deep learning based technologies the detection and identification of co-occurring objects is a challenging task which has many applications in areas such as, security and surveillance. In this paper, we propose a novel framework called SDLNet- Statistical analysis with Deep Learning Network that identifies co-occurring objects in conjunction with base objects in multilabel object categories. The pipeline of proposed work is implemented in two stages: in the first stage of SDLNet we deal with multilabel detectors for discovering labels, and in the second stage we perform co-occurrence matrix analysis. In co-occurrence matrix analysis, we learn co-occurrence statistics by setting base classes and frequently occurring classes, following this we build association rules and generate frequent patterns. The crucial part of SDLNet is recognizing base classes and making consideration for co-occurring classes. Finally, the generated co-occurrence matrix based on frequent patterns will show base classes and their corresponding co-occurring classes. SDLNet is evaluated on two publicly available datasets: Pascal VOC and MS-COCO. The experimental results on these benchmark datasets are reported in Sec 4.
2.0CVMar 25, 2024
Co-Occurring of Object Detection and Identification towards unlabeled object discoveryBinay Kumar Singh, Niels Da Vitoria Lobo
In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning based approach for identifying co-occurring objects in conjunction with base objects in multilabel object categories. Nowadays, with the advancement in computer vision based techniques we need to know about co-occurring objects with respect to base object for various purposes. The pipeline of the proposed work is composed of two stages: in the first stage of the proposed model we detect all the bounding boxes present in the image and their corresponding labels, then in the second stage we perform co-occurrence matrix analysis. In co-occurrence matrix analysis, we set base classes based on the maximum occurrences of the labels and build association rules and generate frequent patterns. These frequent patterns will show base classes and their corresponding co-occurring classes. We performed our experiments on two publicly available datasets: Pascal VOC and MS-COCO. The experimental results on public benchmark dataset is reported in Sec 4. Further we extend this work by considering all frequently objects as unlabeled and what if they are occluded as well.