# Prompt-Driven Simulation with Feature Perturbation for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Object Detection

Source: [Prompt-Driven Simulation with Feature Perturbation for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Object Detection](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a717287bc6f0f0705845fee>)

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Data updated: 2026-08-08T05:00:06.004Z

Authors: Linhai Zhuo, Junxi Cai, Tianwen Qian, Qingping Zheng, Yang Liu

Published: 2026-08-02T16:11:16.000Z

## Abstract

Data augmentation, which simulates diverse visual variations to expand the source distribution and induce synthetic domain shifts, is a simple yet effective strategy for mitigating severe domain shifts and limited labeled target data in cross-domain few-shot object detection (CD-FSOD). Existing approaches rely on conventional data augmentation, such as Color-Jitter, Mosaic, and background-centric adaptation (e.g., Domain-RAG), which are limited in modeling complex domain shifts and often lead to suboptimal performance. In this paper, we propose PSP-FSOD, a principled framework that integrates prompt-driven domain simulation with feature perturbation regularization to improve generalization in CD-FSOD. To enable controllable domain synthesis, we design a prompt-driven strategy that leverages the visual grounding capability of large VLMs to jointly model foreground and background variations, generating semantically consistent yet domain-diverse training samples. Moreover, we adopt a grounding-aware generation scheme that guides object placement and alleviates semantic-spatial misalignment, thereby improving foreground adaptation. To ensure training stability and robustness, we further introduce a noise-induced feature perturbation mechanism that injects Gaussian noise into multi-scale intermediate features with distribution correction, encouraging consistent predictions under perturbations and reducing reliance on domain-specific cues. Extensive experiments demonstrate that PSP-FSOD produces high-quality domain-diverse supervision and learns domain-invariant representations, consistently improving performance across CD-FSOD benchmarks.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01348>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.01348.pdf>)
