Enhancing open-world object detection with AIGC-generated datasets and elastic weight consolidationEnhancing open world object detection with...W. Xue et al.

This paper proposes a novel approach to enhancing open-world object detection (OWOD) models by combining artificial intelligence generated content and elastic weight consolidation (EWC). To address the issue of low category richness and mitigate catastrophic forgetting, we first utilize stable diffusion with low-rank adaptation (LoRA) fine-tuning to generate customized detection target datasets. These datasets are then employed to train an improved open-world region-based efficient model, incorporating an EWC module to constrain parameter changes during learning new tasks. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach achieves a mean average precision of 84.7% on the generated datasets, significantly improving category richness while mitigating forgetting of previously learned categories. The proposed method effectively balances learning new categories and retaining memory of old ones, advancing the frontiers of OWOD research.