CamoTeacher: Dual-Rotation Consistency Learning for Semi-Supervised Camouflaged Object Detection

Abstract

Existing camouflaged object detection (COD) methods depend heavily on large-scale pixel-level annotations. However, acquiring such annotations is laborious due to the inherent camouflage characteristics of the objects. Semi-supervised learning offers a promising solution to this challenge. Yet, its application in COD is hindered by significant pseudo-label noise, both pixel-level and instance-level. We introduce CamoTeacher, a novel semi-supervised COD framework, utilizing Dual-Rotation Consistency Learning (DRCL) to effectively address these noise issues. Specifically, DRCL minimizes pseudo-label noise by leveraging rotation views’ consistency in pixel-level and instance-level. First, it employs Pixel-wise Consistency Learning (PCL) to deal with pixel-level noise by reweighting the different parts within the pseudo-label. Second, Instance-wise Consistency Learning (ICL) is used to adjust weights for pseudo-labels, which handles instance-level noise. Extensive experiments on four COD benchmark datasets demonstrate that the proposed CamoTeacher not only achieves state-of-the-art compared with semi-supervised learning methods, but also rivals established fully-supervised learning methods. Our code will be available soon.