arXiv · 2601.11640
Confident Learning for Object Detection under Model Constraints
Abstract
Agricultural weed detection on edge devices is subject to strict constraints on model capacity, computational resources, and real-time inference latency, which prevent performance improvements through model scaling or ensembling. This paper proposes Model-Driven Data Correction (MDDC), a data-centric framework that enhances detection performance by iteratively diagnosing and correcting data quality deficiencies. An automated error analysis procedure categorizes detection failures into four types: false negatives, false positives, class confusion, and localization errors. These error patterns are systematically addressed through a structured train-fix-retrain pipeline with version-controlled data management. Experimental results on multiple weed detection datasets demonstrate consistent improvements of 5-25 percent in mAP at 0.5 using a fixed lightweight detector (YOLOv8n), indicating that systematic data quality optimization can effectively alleviate performance bottlenecks under fixed model capacity constraints.
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Yingda Yu, Jiaqi Xuan, Shuhui Shi, Xuanyu Teng, Shuyang Xu, Guanchao Tong. 2026-01-14. Confident Learning for Object Detection under Model Constraints. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11640
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