Catastrophic forgetting is a challenge faced in cloud-edge object detection for traffic monitoring due to the loss of previously learned knowledge when adapting to new data distributions.
Existing approaches like experience replay and visual prompts struggle to effectively prioritize historical data for optimal knowledge retention and adaptation.
A new algorithm called ER-EMU is proposed to mitigate catastrophic forgetting by using adaptive experience replay and a novel Domain Distance Metric-based Experience Selection (DDM-ES) algorithm.
Experiments on the Bellevue traffic video dataset show that ER-EMU consistently enhances the performance of cloud-edge object detection frameworks in dynamic traffic environments.