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Unsupervised object detection using deep neural networks is typically a difficult problem with few to no guarantees about the learned representation. In this work we present the first unsupervised object detection method that is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Marian Longa , João F. Henriques

In this paper, we address the problem of detecting small, dense, and overlapping objects, a major challenge in computer vision. Our focus is on reviewing proposed methods based on deep learning supervised approaches. We provide a detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Oussama Messai , Abbass Zein-Eddine , Abdelouahid Bentamou , Mickael Picq , Nicolas Duquesne , Stéphane Puydarrieux , Yann Gavet

In this paper, we tackle the task of estimating the 3D orientation of previously-unseen objects from monocular images. This task contrasts with the one considered by most existing deep learning methods which typically assume that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Chen Zhao , Yinlin Hu , Mathieu Salzmann

Recent Semi-Supervised Object Detection (SS-OD) methods are mainly based on self-training, i.e., generating hard pseudo-labels by a teacher model on unlabeled data as supervisory signals. Although they achieved certain success, the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Qiushan Guo , Yao Mu , Jianyu Chen , Tianqi Wang , Yizhou Yu , Ping Luo

In this work, we introduce LEAD, an approach to discover landmarks from an unannotated collection of category-specific images. Existing works in self-supervised landmark detection are based on learning dense (pixel-level) feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Tejan Karmali , Abhinav Atrishi , Sai Sree Harsha , Susmit Agrawal , Varun Jampani , R. Venkatesh Babu

Addressing the Out-of-Distribution (OoD) segmentation task is a prerequisite for perception systems operating in an open-world environment. Large foundational models are frequently used in downstream tasks, however, their potential for OoD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Nazir Nayal , Youssef Shoeb , Fatma Güney

Open World Object Detection (OWOD) is a challenging computer vision problem that requires detecting unknown objects and gradually learning the identified unknown classes. However, it cannot distinguish unknown instances as multiple unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Zhiheng Wu , Yue Lu , Xingyu Chen , Zhengxing Wu , Liwen Kang , Junzhi Yu

Underwater object detection (UOD), aiming to identify and localise the objects in underwater images or videos, presents significant challenges due to the optical distortion, water turbidity, and changing illumination in underwater scenes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Long Chen , Yuzhi Huang , Junyu Dong , Qi Xu , Sam Kwong , Huimin Lu , Huchuan Lu , Chongyi Li

Recently, a number of competitive methods have tackled unsupervised representation learning by maximising the mutual information between the representations produced from augmentations. The resulting representations are then invariant to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Luke Nicholas Darlow , Amos Storkey

Unsupervised learning of feature representations is a challenging yet important problem for analyzing a large collection of multimedia data that do not have semantic labels. Recently proposed neural network-based unsupervised learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Takahiko Furuya , Ryutarou Ohbuchi

In this paper, we propose a self-supervised learningmethod for multi-object pose estimation. 3D object under-standing from 2D image is a challenging task that infers ad-ditional dimension from reduced-dimensional information.In particular,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Hyeonwoo Yu , Jean Oh

Semi-supervised object detection (SSOD), leveraging unlabeled data to boost object detectors, has become a hot topic recently. However, existing SSOD approaches mainly focus on horizontal objects, leaving oriented objects common in aerial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Dingkang Liang , Wei Hua , Chunsheng Shi , Zhikang Zou , Xiaoqing Ye , Xiang Bai

In this paper, we study the problem of unsupervised object detection from 3D point clouds in self-driving scenes. We present a simple yet effective method that exploits (i) point clustering in near-range areas where the point clouds are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Lunjun Zhang , Anqi Joyce Yang , Yuwen Xiong , Sergio Casas , Bin Yang , Mengye Ren , Raquel Urtasun

Weakly Supervised Object Detection (WSOD) is a task that detects objects in an image using a model trained only on image-level annotations. Current state-of-the-art models benefit from self-supervised instance-level supervision, but since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Jinhwan Seo , Wonho Bae , Danica J. Sutherland , Junhyug Noh , Daijin Kim

The promise of self-supervised learning (SSL) is to leverage large amounts of unlabeled data to solve complex tasks. While there has been excellent progress with simple, image-level learning, recent methods have shown the advantage of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Olivier J. Hénaff , Skanda Koppula , Evan Shelhamer , Daniel Zoran , Andrew Jaegle , Andrew Zisserman , João Carreira , Relja Arandjelović

Open-World Object Detection (OWOD) enriches traditional object detectors by enabling continual discovery and integration of unknown objects via human guidance. However, existing OWOD approaches frequently suffer from semantic confusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Anay Majee , Amitesh Gangrade , Rishabh Iyer

Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Object Detection (UDA-OD) uses unlabelled data to improve the reliability of robotic vision systems in open-world environments. Previous approaches to UDA-OD based on self-training have been effective in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Nicolas Harvey Chapman , Feras Dayoub , Will Browne , Christopher Lehnert

Unsupervised learning poses one of the most difficult challenges in computer vision today. The task has an immense practical value with many applications in artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, as large quantities of unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Ioana Croitoru , Simion-Vlad Bogolin , Marius Leordeanu

In this paper, we address the detection of co-occurring salient objects (CoSOD) in an image group using frequency statistics in an unsupervised manner, which further enable us to develop a semi-supervised method. While previous works have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Souradeep Chakraborty , Shujon Naha , Muhammet Bastan , Amit Kumar K C , Dimitris Samaras

Unsupervised cross-domain image retrieval (UCIR) aims to retrieve images of the same category across diverse domains without relying on annotations. Existing UCIR methods, which align cross-domain features for the entire image, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Ruohong Yang , Peng Hu , Yunfan Li , Xi Peng