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Prototype-oriented contrastive mean-teacher for unsupervised domain adaptive object detection.

Qi Cao1, Jianwen Tao1, Yufang Dan2,3,4

  • 1Institute of Artificial Intelligence Application, Ningbo Polytechnic University, Ningbo, 315800, China.

Scientific Reports
|March 28, 2026
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Prototype-oriented Contrastive Mean Teacher (PoCoMT) enhances unsupervised domain adaptive object detection by integrating contrastive learning, prototype learning, and self-training. This framework improves pseudo-box quality and semantic structure alignment for better model discriminability.

Area of Science:

  • Computer Vision
  • Machine Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence

Background:

  • Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Object Detection (UDA-OD) aims to transfer models to new domains without labeled data.
  • Mean-teacher self-training is crucial for UDA-OD but struggles with pseudo-box quality.
  • Existing methods often overlook intra- and inter-domain semantic structures, limiting model performance.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a novel framework, Prototype-oriented Contrastive Mean Teacher (PoCoMT), for UDA-OD.
  • To leverage synergies between contrastive learning, prototype learning, and mean-teacher self-training.
  • To enhance the discriminative abilities of object detection models in cross-domain scenarios.

Main Methods:

  • PoCoMT integrates contrastive learning, prototype learning, and mean-teacher self-training.

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  • It generates reliable pseudo-boxes by maximizing information entropy and maintaining semantic consistency.
  • A Prototype Alignment Network (ProtoAN) module reduces intra- and inter-domain contrastive losses, aligning class structures and reducing semantic loss.

    • Main Results:

    • PoCoMT significantly improves the quality and reliability of pseudo-boxes generated during self-training.
    • The ProtoAN module effectively fosters feature aggregation and aligns inter-domain class structures.
    • PoCoMT achieves new state-of-the-art performance on UDA-OD tasks.

    Conclusions:

    • The integration of contrastive, prototype, and self-training methods offers a powerful approach for UDA-OD.
    • PoCoMT effectively addresses the challenge of semantic loss in cross-domain object detection.
    • The proposed ProtoAN module can be a valuable plugin for existing self-training frameworks.