Efficient Parameter Mining and Freezing for Continual Object Detection
This work addresses incremental learning for object detection, which is incremental as it adapts parameter-isolation strategies from classification to detection scenarios.
The paper tackled the problem of continual object detection by proposing efficient layer-level parameter isolation to maintain detector performance across sequential updates, highlighting substantial advantages for incremental learning.
Continual Object Detection is essential for enabling intelligent agents to interact proactively with humans in real-world settings. While parameter-isolation strategies have been extensively explored in the context of continual learning for classification, they have yet to be fully harnessed for incremental object detection scenarios. Drawing inspiration from prior research that focused on mining individual neuron responses and integrating insights from recent developments in neural pruning, we proposed efficient ways to identify which layers are the most important for a network to maintain the performance of a detector across sequential updates. The presented findings highlight the substantial advantages of layer-level parameter isolation in facilitating incremental learning within object detection models, offering promising avenues for future research and application in real-world scenarios.