Semi-Supervised Object Detection

STAC is a semi-supervised framework for visual object detection along with a data augmentation strategy. STAC deploys highly confident pseudo labels of localized objects from an unlabeled image and updates the model by enforcing consistency via strong augmentations. We generate pseudo labels (i.e., bounding boxes and their class labels) for unlabeled data using test-time inference, including NMS , of the teacher model trained with labeled data. We then compute unsupervised loss with respect to pseudo labels whose confidence scores are above a threshold $\tau$ . The strong augmentations are applied for augmentation consistency during the model training. Target boxes are augmented when global geometric transformations are used.