[2603.02286] Beyond Prompt Degradation: Prototype-guided Dual-pool Prompting for Incremental Object Detection

Computer Science > Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition arXiv:2603.02286 (cs) [Submitted on 2 Mar 2026] Title:Beyond Prompt Degradation: Prototype-guided Dual-pool Prompting for Incremental Object Detection Authors:Yaoteng Zhang, Zhou Qing, Junyu Gao, Qi Wang View a PDF of the paper titled Beyond Prompt Degradation: Prototype-guided Dual-pool Prompting for Incremental Object Detection, by Yaoteng Zhang and 3 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Incremental Object Detection (IOD) aims to continuously learn new object categories without forgetting previously learned ones. Recently, prompt-based methods have gained popularity for their replay-free design and parameter efficiency. However, due to prompt coupling and prompt drift, these methods often suffer from prompt degradation during continual adaptation. To address these issues, we propose a novel prompt-decoupled framework called PDP. PDP innovatively designs a dual-pool prompt decoupling paradigm, which consists of a shared pool used to capture task-general knowledge for forward transfer, and a private pool used to learn task-specific discriminative features. This paradigm explicitly separates task-general and task-specific prompts, preventing interference between prompts and mitigating prompt coupling. In addition, to counteract prompt drift resulting from inconsistent supervision where old foreground objects are treated as background in subsequent tasks, PDP introduces a Prototypical Pseudo-Label Gene...