A paper review on SoftTeacher

Original Abstract This paper presents an end-to-end semi-supervised object detection approach, in contrast to previous more complex multi-stage methods. The end-to-end training gradually improves pseudo-label qualities during the curriculum and the more and more accurate pseudo-labels in turn benefit object detection training. We also propose two simple yet effective techniques within this framework: a soft teacher mechanism where the classification loss of each unlabeled bounding box is weighed by the classification score produced by the teacher network; a box jittering approach to select reliable pseudo boxes for the learning of box regression. On the COCO benchmark, the proposed approach outperforms previous methods by a large margin under various labelling ratios, i.e. 1%, 5% and 10%. Moreover, our approach proves to perform also well when the amount of labelled data is relatively large.