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arXiv Computer Vision By Licheng Zhang, Zheng Gong

Distance to Class Prototypes: Active Learning for Object Detection

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The paper introduces a new active learning signal for object detection that relies on a supervised contrastive term added to the training objective. This term shapes an embedding space where distance reflects class membership, allowing an unlabeled detection to be scored by its distance from the predicted category’s region weighted by confidence—all from a single forward pass of one network. Experiments on PASCAL VOC and MS‑COCO show that this criterion outperforms the standard posterior and remains competitive with ensemble‑based methods while incurring only a modest 8.3% increase in parameters.

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