US 12205242 B2 / Jan 21, 2025

Method and system for accelerating rapid class augmentation for object detection in deep neural networks

Object detection architectures for detecting and classifying objects in an image are modified to incorporate an extending Rapid Class Augmentation (XRCA) progressive learning algorithm with its defining aspect of memory built into its optimizer which allows joint optimization over both the old and the classes using just the new class data and eliminates the issues associated with catastrophic forgetting.