# Cross-domain Few-shot Object Detection with Multi-modal Textual Enrichment

Source: [Cross-domain Few-shot Object Detection with Multi-modal Textual Enrichment](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa77241e209131cea7159f>)

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Data updated: 2025-10-27T06:48:55.522Z

Authors: Zeyu Shangguan, Daniel Seita, Mohammad Rostami

Published: 2025-02-23T06:59:22.000Z

## Abstract

Advancements in cross-modal feature extraction and integration have significantly enhanced performance in few-shot learning tasks. However, current multi-modal object detection (MM-OD) methods often experience notable performance degradation when encountering substantial domain shifts. We propose that incorporating rich textual information can enable the model to establish a more robust knowledge relationship between visual instances and their corresponding language descriptions, thereby mitigating the challenges of domain shift. Specifically, we focus on the problem of Cross-Domain Multi-Modal Few-Shot Object Detection (CDMM-FSOD) and introduce a meta-learning-based framework designed to leverage rich textual semantics as an auxiliary modality to achieve effective domain adaptation. Our new architecture incorporates two key components: (i) A multi-modal feature aggregation module, which aligns visual and linguistic feature embeddings to ensure cohesive integration across modalities. (ii) A rich text semantic rectification module, which employs bidirectional text feature generation to refine multi-modal feature alignment, thereby enhancing understanding of language and its application in object detection. We evaluate the proposed method on common cross-domain object detection benchmarks and demonstrate that it significantly surpasses existing few-shot object detection approaches.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16469>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.16469.pdf>)
