# Analyzing Training-Free Corruption Detection for Object Detection Datasets

Source: [Analyzing Training-Free Corruption Detection for Object Detection Datasets](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a28f37390966ade919c195d>)

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Data updated: 2026-06-11T05:00:05.513Z

Authors: Christian Sieberichs, Simon Geerkens, Thomas Waschulzik, Viswanathan Ramesh, Alexander Braun

Published: 2026-06-09T10:17:45.000Z

## Abstract

Annotation errors are widespread in computer vision datasets and can significantly degrade the performance of systems trained on them, particularly in complex tasks such as object detection. Several approaches exist to identify annotation errors, including training-free feature-space methods which provide a fast and interpretable way to analyze annotations. However, the behavior on object detection annotations, which include semantic and spatial information, remains largely unexplored.   In this work we analyze the applicability of feature-space-based approaches for detecting annotation errors in object detection datasets. By adapting an existing feature-space method, we show that such approaches reliably expose semantic mislabel, while positional errors remain difficult to detect. We evaluate this behavior across multiple pretrained embedding models, synthetic noise types (symmetric, asymmetric, and positional), and real-world annotation errors using VOC2012 and KITTI.   All code and real-world corruptions are publicly available at the following repository: https://github.com/ ChristianSieberichs/BoundingBox\\\_corruption\\\_detection

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.10666>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.10666.pdf>)
