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Human-Object Interaction (HOI) detection aims to detect visual relations between human and objects in images. One significant problem of HOI detection is that non-interactive human-object pair can be easily mis-grouped and misclassified as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Lu Liu , Robby T. Tan

Recent methods for zero-shot Human-Object Interaction (HOI) detection typically leverage the generalization ability of large Vision-Language Model (VLM), i.e., CLIP, on unseen categories, showing impressive results on various zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Sanghyun Kim , Deunsol Jung , Minsu Cho

We propose HOI Transformer to tackle human object interaction (HOI) detection in an end-to-end manner. Current approaches either decouple HOI task into separated stages of object detection and interaction classification or introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Cheng Zou , Bohan Wang , Yue Hu , Junqi Liu , Qian Wu , Yu Zhao , Boxun Li , Chenguang Zhang , Chi Zhang , Yichen Wei , Jian Sun

The task of Human-Object Interaction (HOI) detection targets fine-grained visual parsing of humans interacting with their environment, enabling a broad range of applications. Prior work has demonstrated the benefits of effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Hangjie Yuan , Jianwen Jiang , Samuel Albanie , Tao Feng , Ziyuan Huang , Dong Ni , Mingqian Tang

Human Object Interaction (HOI) detection aims to localize and infer the relationships between a human and an object. Arguably, training supervised models for this task from scratch presents challenges due to the performance drop over rare…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Ting Lei , Fabian Caba , Qingchao Chen , Hailin Jin , Yuxin Peng , Yang Liu

Zero-shot Human-object interaction (HOI) detection aims to locate humans and objects in images and recognize their interactions. While advances in open-vocabulary object detection provide promising solutions for object localization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Shiyu Xuan , Dongkai Wang , Zechao Li , Jinhui Tang

Human-Object Interaction (HOI) detection aims to identify humans and objects within images and interpret their interactions. Existing HOI methods rely heavily on large datasets with manual annotations to learn interactions from visual cues.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Francesco Tonini , Lorenzo Vaquero , Alessandro Conti , Cigdem Beyan , Elisa Ricci

Most existing Human-Object Interaction~(HOI) Detection methods rely heavily on full annotations with predefined HOI categories, which is limited in diversity and costly to scale further. We aim at advancing zero-shot HOI detection to detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Mingrui Wu , Jiaxin Gu , Yunhang Shen , Mingbao Lin , Chao Chen , Xiaoshuai Sun

Recent years have witnessed rapid progress in detecting and recognizing individual object instances. To understand the situation in a scene, however, computers need to recognize how humans interact with surrounding objects. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Chen Gao , Yuliang Zou , Jia-Bin Huang

The task of Human-Object Interaction (HOI) detection is to detect humans and their interactions with surrounding objects, where transformer-based methods show dominant advances currently. However, these methods ignore the relationship among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Shuman Fang , Zhiwen Lin , Ke Yan , Jie Li , Xianming Lin , Rongrong Ji

A common problem in human-object interaction (HOI) detection task is that numerous HOI classes have only a small number of labeled examples, resulting in training sets with a long-tailed distribution. The lack of positive labels can lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Dong-Jin Kim , Xiao Sun , Jinsoo Choi , Stephen Lin , In So Kweon

Human-object interaction (HOI) detection aims to comprehend the intricate relationships between humans and objects, predicting $<human, action, object>$ triplets, and serving as the foundation for numerous computer vision tasks. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Yichao Cao , Qingfei Tang , Xiu Su , Chen Song , Shan You , Xiaobo Lu , Chang Xu

Human-Object Interaction (HOI) detection is a fundamental visual task aiming at localizing and recognizing interactions between humans and objects. Existing works focus on the visual and linguistic features of humans and objects. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Tao He , Lianli Gao , Jingkuan Song , Yuan-Fang Li

Human-object interaction (HOI) detection requires a large amount of annotated data. Current algorithms suffer from insufficient training samples and category imbalance within datasets. To increase data efficiency, in this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Yichen Xie , Hao-Shu Fang , Dian Shao , Yong-Lu Li , Cewu Lu

Zero-shot Human-Object Interaction (HOI) detection has emerged as a frontier topic due to its capability to detect HOIs beyond a predefined set of categories. This task entails not only identifying the interactiveness of human-object pairs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Ting Lei , Shaofeng Yin , Yuxin Peng , Yang Liu

We study the problem of detecting human-object interactions (HOI) in static images, defined as predicting a human and an object bounding box with an interaction class label that connects them. HOI detection is a fundamental problem in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Yu-Wei Chao , Yunfan Liu , Xieyang Liu , Huayi Zeng , Jia Deng

Human-object interaction (HOI) detection aims to localize human-object pairs and the interactions between them. Existing methods operate under a closed-world assumption, treating the task as a classification problem over a small, predefined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Zhaolin Cai , Huiyu Duan , Zitong Xu , Fan Li , Zhi Liu , Jing Liu , Wei Shen , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

Human-Object Interaction (HOI) detection aims to simultaneously localize human-object pairs and recognize their interactions. While recent two-stage approaches have made significant progress, they still face challenges due to incomplete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Zhehao Li , Yucheng Qian , Chong Wang , Yinghao Lu , Zhihao Yang , Jiafei Wu

In this paper, we develop \textbf{MP-HOI}, a powerful Multi-modal Prompt-based HOI detector designed to leverage both textual descriptions for open-set generalization and visual exemplars for handling high ambiguity in descriptions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Jie Yang , Bingliang Li , Ailing Zeng , Lei Zhang , Ruimao Zhang

Human-Object Interaction (HOI) detection is a longstanding computer vision problem concerned with predicting the interaction between humans and objects. Current HOI models rely on a vocabulary of interactions at training and inference time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Francesco Tonini , Alessandro Conti , Lorenzo Vaquero , Cigdem Beyan , Elisa Ricci