# PseudoProp: Robust Pseudo-Label Generation for Semi-Supervised Object Detection in Autonomous Driving Systems

Source: [PseudoProp: Robust Pseudo-Label Generation for Semi-Supervised Object Detection in Autonomous Driving Systems](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6c5b1e209131cea338b8>)

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Authors: Shu Hu, Chun-Hao Liu, Jayanta Dutta, Ming-Ching Chang, Siwei Lyu, Naveen Ramakrishnan

Published: 2022-03-11T15:09:29.000Z

## Abstract

Semi-supervised object detection methods are widely used in autonomous driving systems, where only a fraction of objects are labeled. To propagate information from the labeled objects to the unlabeled ones, pseudo-labels for unlabeled objects must be generated. Although pseudo-labels have proven to improve the performance of semi-supervised object detection significantly, the applications of image-based methods to video frames result in numerous miss or false detections using such generated pseudo-labels. In this paper, we propose a new approach, PseudoProp, to generate robust pseudo-labels by leveraging motion continuity in video frames. Specifically, PseudoProp uses a novel bidirectional pseudo-label propagation approach to compensate for misdetection. A feature-based fusion technique is also used to suppress inference noise. Extensive experiments on the large-scale Cityscapes dataset demonstrate that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art semi-supervised object detection methods by 7.4% on mAP75.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.05983>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.05983.pdf>)
