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Simple Open-Vocabulary Object Detection with Vision Transformers

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arxiv 2205.06230 v2 pith:IGY5WSB3 submitted 2022-05-12 cs.CV

Simple Open-Vocabulary Object Detection with Vision Transformers

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keywords detectionobjectpre-trainingopen-vocabularyimage-textimprovementsmodelsscaling
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Combining simple architectures with large-scale pre-training has led to massive improvements in image classification. For object detection, pre-training and scaling approaches are less well established, especially in the long-tailed and open-vocabulary setting, where training data is relatively scarce. In this paper, we propose a strong recipe for transferring image-text models to open-vocabulary object detection. We use a standard Vision Transformer architecture with minimal modifications, contrastive image-text pre-training, and end-to-end detection fine-tuning. Our analysis of the scaling properties of this setup shows that increasing image-level pre-training and model size yield consistent improvements on the downstream detection task. We provide the adaptation strategies and regularizations needed to attain very strong performance on zero-shot text-conditioned and one-shot image-conditioned object detection. Code and models are available on GitHub.

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