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Detection Transformer (DETR) has redefined object detection by casting it as a set prediction task within an end-to-end framework. Despite its elegance, DETR and its variants still rely on fixed learnable queries and suffer from severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zhengjian Kang , Jun Zhuang , Kangtong Mo , Qi Chen , Rui Liu , Ye Zhang

Out-of-distribution (OOD) object detection is a critical task focused on detecting objects that originate from a data distribution different from that of the training data. In this study, we investigate to what extent state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Sadia Ilyas , Ido Freeman , Matthias Rottmann

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) aims to detect known and unknown objects in the open world by leveraging text prompts. Benefiting from the emergence of large-scale vision--language pre-trained models, OVOD has demonstrated strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Jiaming Liang , Yifeng Zhan , Chunlin Liu , Weihua Zheng , Bingye Peng , Qiwei Liang , Boyang Cai , Xiaochun Mai , Qiang Nie

In this paper, we address the limitations of the DETR-based semi-supervised object detection (SSOD) framework, particularly focusing on the challenges posed by the quality of object queries. In DETR-based SSOD, the one-to-one assignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Tahira Shehzadi , Khurram Azeem Hashmi , Didier Stricker , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

Current closed-set instance segmentation models rely on pre-defined class labels for each mask during training and evaluation, largely limiting their ability to detect novel objects. Open-world instance segmentation (OWIS) models address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Muzhi Zhu , Hengtao Li , Hao Chen , Chengxiang Fan , Weian Mao , Chenchen Jing , Yifan Liu , Chunhua Shen

Traditional semi-supervised object detection methods assume a fixed set of object classes (in-distribution or ID classes) during training and deployment, which limits performance in real-world scenarios where unseen classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Garvita Allabadi , Ana Lucic , Siddarth Aananth , Tiffany Yang , Yu-Xiong Wang , Vikram Adve

Detecting both known and unknown objects is a fundamental skill for robot manipulation in unstructured environments. Open-set object detection (OSOD) is a promising direction to handle the problem consisting of two subtasks: objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Zhongxiang Zhou , Yifei Yang , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

Incremental object detection (IOD) aims to sequentially learn new classes, while maintaining the capability to locate and identify old ones. As the training data arrives with annotations only with new classes, IOD suffers from catastrophic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Jichuan Zhang , Wei Li , Shuang Cheng , Ya-Li Li , Shengjin Wang

The astounding performance of transformers in natural language processing (NLP) has motivated researchers to explore their applications in computer vision tasks. DEtection TRansformer (DETR) introduces transformers to object detection tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Tahira Shehzadi , Khurram Azeem Hashmi , Didier Stricker , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

Many open-world applications require the detection of novel objects, yet state-of-the-art object detection and instance segmentation networks do not excel at this task. The key issue lies in their assumption that regions without any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Kuniaki Saito , Ping Hu , Trevor Darrell , Kate Saenko

Despite weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) being a promising step toward evading strong instance-level annotations, its capability is confined to closed-set categories within a single training dataset. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Jianghang Lin , Yunhang Shen , Bingquan Wang , Shaohui Lin , Ke Li , Liujuan Cao

A key challenge for LiDAR-based 3D object detection is to capture sufficient features from large scale 3D scenes especially for distant or/and occluded objects. Albeit recent efforts made by Transformers with the long sequence modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Chao Zhou , Yanan Zhang , Jiaxin Chen , Di Huang

Instance detection (InsDet) aims to localize specific object instances within a novel scene imagery based on given visual references. Technically, it requires proposal detection to identify all possible object instances, followed by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Qianqian Shen , Yunhan Zhao , Nahyun Kwon , Jeeeun Kim , Yanan Li , Shu Kong

Open-set object detection (OSOD) aims to detect the known categories and reject unknown objects in a dynamic world, which has achieved significant attention. However, previous approaches only consider this problem in data-abundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Binyi Su , Hua Zhang , Jingzhi Li , Zhong Zhou

Object detection remains as one of the most notorious open problems in computer vision. Despite large strides in accuracy in recent years, modern object detectors have started to saturate on popular benchmarks raising the question of how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Ali Borji

Conventional camera-based 3D object detectors in autonomous driving are limited to recognizing a predefined set of objects, which poses a safety risk when encountering novel or unseen objects in real-world scenarios. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhuolin He , Xinrun Li , Jiacheng Tang , Shoumeng Qiu , Wenfu Wang , Xiangyang Xue , Jian Pu

Autonomous driving (AD) operates in open-world scenarios, where encountering unknown objects is inevitable. However, standard object detectors trained on a limited number of base classes tend to ignore any unknown objects, posing potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Lars Schmarje , Kaspar Sakman , Reinhard Koch , Dan Zhang

Recent advancements in 3D object detection and novel category detection have made significant progress, yet research on learning generalized 3D objectness remains insufficient. In this paper, we delve into learning open-world 3D objectness,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Taichi Liu , Zhenyu Wang , Ruofeng Liu , Guang Wang , Desheng Zhang

Classical object detectors are incapable of detecting novel class objects that are not encountered before. Regarding this issue, Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVOD) is proposed, which aims to detect the objects in the candidate class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Zhao Wang , Aoxue Li , Fengwei Zhou , Zhenguo Li , Qi Dou

Marine object detection has gained prominence in marine research, driven by the pressing need to unravel oceanic mysteries and enhance our understanding of invaluable marine ecosystems. There is a profound requirement to efficiently and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Liang Haixin , Zheng Ziqiang , Ma Zeyu , Sai-Kit Yeung