Proposal Distillation of Multi-Modal Feature Aggregation Network for Video Object Detection

Video object detection is a challenging task due to deteriorated object appearances. In order to bolster per-frame feature representations, one way is to aggregate features from relevant frames. However, relying exclusively on RGB modal for feature aggregation may limit the detection performance for lacking of motion robustness. We propose a novel proposal distillation of multi-modal feature aggregation network (PDMAN). Specially, it initially aligns the feature domain and flow domain via a lightweight flow module (LFM) and then facilities frame-level feature aggregation. Subsequently, a global-based semantic embedding module (GSEM) is designed to incorporate global semantic features into instance features and introduce a global multi-label classification loss to guide encoding with high class-wise responsiveness. Finally, to alleviate the presence of insufficient and redundant information in multi-modal instance-level feature aggregation, a proposal distilled aggregation module (PDAM) is employed. By distilling the instance set, this approach realizes a fine-grained feature aggregation, ultimately boosting the detection performance. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed PDMAN achieves a favorable result on the most representative large-scale ImageNet VID dataset.