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Search and Detect: Training-Free Long Tail Object Detection via Web-Image Retrieval

arXiv 2409.18733 ↗First posted 26 Sep 2024cs.CVcited by 5

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Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper, we introduce SearchDet, a training-free long-tail object detection framework that significantly enhances open-vocabulary object detection performance. SearchDet retrieves a set of positive and negative images of an object to ground, embeds these images, and computes an input image-weighted query which is used to detect the desired concept in the image. Our proposed method is simple and training-free, yet achieves over 48.7% mAP improvement on ODinW and 59.1% mAP improvement on LVIS compared to state-of-the-art models such as GroundingDINO. We further show that our approach of basing object detection on a set of Web-retrieved exemplars is stable with respect to variations in the exemplars, suggesting a path towards eliminating costly data annotation and training procedures.

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  2. 2026Pixel-Grounded Retrieval for Knowledgeable Large Multimodal Modelscited by 2
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  4. 2026Gen2Balance: Generative Balancing for Long-Tailed Video Action Recognitioncited by 0
  5. 2026IMPRINT: Image-Conditioned Query Enrichment for Long-Tail Object Goal Navigationcited by 0