Exploiting hierarchical structure learning with hyperbolic distance to enhance open world object detection

Abstract

A method of performing open world object detection includes receiving object data, that includes embeddings data corresponding to a plurality of embeddings for known objects in a first input image, projecting the embeddings into a hyperbolic embedding space that includes embeddings in a plurality of categories of objects each including one or more classes of objects, regularizing the projected embeddings within the hyperbolic embedding space by moving each of the projected embeddings closer to embeddings in a same category of the plurality of categories and further away from embeddings in different categories of the plurality of categories, receiving an unmatched query corresponding to an object in a second input image, and generating, based on the hyperbolic embedding space including the regularized embeddings, an output signal that indicates whether the object in the second input image corresponds to an unknown object in one of the classes of objects.