Bag of Tricks: Semi-Supervised Cross-domain Crater Detection with Poor Data Quality

With the development of spaceflight and the exploration of extraterrestrial planets, exoplanet crater detection has gradually gained attention. However, with the current scarcity of relevant datasets, high sample background complexity, and large inter-domain differences, few existing detection models can achieve good robustness and generalization across domains by training on data with more background interference. To obtain a better robust model with better cross-domain generalization in the presence of poor data quality, we propose the SCPQ model, in which we first propose a method for fusing shallow information using attention mechanism (FSIAM), which utilizes feature maps fused with deep convolved feature maps after fully extracting the global sensory field of shallow information via the attention mechanism module, which can fully fit the data to obtain a better sense of the domain in the presence of poor data, and thus better multiscale adaptability. Secondly, we propose a pseudo-label and data augment strategy (PDAS) and a smooth hard example mining (SHEM) loss function to improve cross-domain performance. PDAS adopts high-quality pseudo-labeled data from the target domain to the finetune model, and adopts different strong and weak data enhancement strategies for different domains, which mitigates the different distribution of information inherent in the source and target domains, and obtains a better generalization effect. Meanwhile, our proposed SHEM loss function can solve the problem of poor robustness of hard examples due to partial background interference learning during the training process. The SHEM loss function can smooth this interference and has generalization while learning hard examples. Experimental results show that we achieved better performance on the DACD dataset and improved the Recall of cross-domain detection by 24.04\% over baseline.