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September 16, 2025

Adaptive Modality Balanced Online Knowledge Distillation for Brain–Eye–Computer-Based Dim Object Detection

Key Points

The proposed system utilizes brain-computer interfaces to detect dim targets in aerial images.
An adaptive modality balanced online knowledge distillation method enhances feature fusion for improved detection performance.
The technique integrates electroencephalogram data with image features, showing significant advancements over traditional methods.
Testing on public datasets verifies the effectiveness and robustness of the approach in varied scenarios.

Abstract

Advanced cognition can be measured from the human brain using brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). Integrating these interfaces with computer vision techniques, which possess efficient feature extraction capabilities, can achieve more robust and accurate detection of dim targets in aerial images. However, existing target detection methods primarily concentrate on homogeneous data, lacking efficient and versatile processing capabilities for heterogeneous multimodal data. In this article, we first build a brain-eye-computer-based object detection system for aerial images under few-shot conditions. This system detects suspicious targets using region proposal networks (RPNs), evokes the event-related potential (ERP) signal in electroencephalogram (EEG) through the eye-tracking-based slow serial visual presentation (ESSVP) paradigm, and constructs the EEG-image data pairs with eye movement data. Then, an adaptive modality balanced online knowledge distillation (AMBOKD) method is proposed to recognize dim objects with the EEG-image data. AMBOKD fuses EEG and image features using a multihead attention module, establishing a new modality with comprehensive features. To enhance the performance and robust capability of the fusion modality, simultaneous training and mutual learning between modalities are enabled by end-to-end online KD (OKD). During the learning process, an adaptive modality balancing module is proposed to ensure multimodal equilibrium by dynamically adjusting the weights of the importance and the training gradients across various modalities. The effectiveness and superiority of our method are demonstrated by comparing it with existing state-of-the-art methods. Additionally, experiments conducted on public datasets and real-world scenarios demonstrate the reliability and practicality of the proposed system and the designed method. The dataset and the source code can be found at: https://github.com/lizixing23/AMBOKD.

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