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Open-world object detection (OWOD) requires detectors to localize known classes while identifying unknown objects for future incremental learning. We find that the unknown prediction streams of strong OWOD detectors are heavily polluted: on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yingjun Xiao , Xi Chen , Gang Fang , Siyuan Chen

Infrared-visible object detection aims to achieve robust object detection by leveraging the complementary information of infrared and visible image pairs. However, the commonly existing modality misalignment problem presents two challenges:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Junjie Guo , Chenqiang Gao , Fangcen Liu , Deyu Meng

Existing video instance segmentation (VIS) approaches generally follow a closed-world assumption, where only seen category instances are identified and spatio-temporally segmented at inference. Open-world formulation relaxes the close-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Omkar Thawakar , Sanath Narayan , Hisham Cholakkal , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Salman Khan , Jorma Laaksonen , Mubarak Shah , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

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 2019-12-18 Ali Borji , Seyed Mehdi Iranmanesh

Current mainstream SAR image object detection methods still lack robustness when dealing with unknown objects in open environments. Open-set detection aims to enable detectors trained on a closed set to detect all known objects and identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xiayang Xiao , Zhuoxuan Li , Haipeng Wang

Robotic visual systems operating in the wild must act in unconstrained scenarios, under different environmental conditions while facing a variety of semantic concepts, including unknown ones. To this end, recent works tried to empower…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Dario Fontanel , Fabio Cermelli , Massimiliano Mancini , Barbara Caputo

Object-centric learning (OCL) seeks to learn representations that only encode an object, isolated from other objects or background cues in a scene. This approach underpins various aims, including out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Alexander Rubinstein , Ameya Prabhu , Matthias Bethge , Seong Joon Oh

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) aims at localizing and recognizing visual objects from novel classes unseen at the training time. Whereas, empirical studies reveal that advanced detectors generally assign lower scores to those novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Yanhao Zheng , Kai Liu

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) use object detection models to recognize their surroundings and make driving decisions accordingly. Conventional object detection approaches classify objects into known classes, which limits the AV's ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Menna Taha , Aya Ahmed , Mohammed Karmoose , Yasser Gadallah

Out-of-distribution (OoD) inputs pose a persistent challenge to deep learning models, often triggering overconfident predictions on non-target objects. While prior work has primarily focused on refining scoring functions and adjusting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Changshun Wu , Weicheng He , Chih-Hong Cheng , Xiaowei Huang , Saddek Bensalem

Open vocabulary object detection (OVD) aims at seeking an optimal object detector capable of recognizing objects from both base and novel categories. Recent advances leverage knowledge distillation to transfer insightful knowledge from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jiaming Li , Jiacheng Zhang , Jichang Li , Ge Li , Si Liu , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

The goal of this paper is open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) $\unicode{x2013}$ building a model that can detect objects beyond the set of categories seen at training, thus enabling the user to specify categories of interest at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Prannay Kaul , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

The ability to detect objects that are not prevalent in the training set is a critical capability in many 3D applications, including autonomous driving. Machine learning methods for object recognition often assume that all object categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Zizhao Li , Xueyang Kang , Joseph West , Kourosh Khoshelham

DETR has been recently proposed to eliminate the need for many hand-designed components in object detection while demonstrating good performance. However, it suffers from slow convergence and limited feature spatial resolution, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Xizhou Zhu , Weijie Su , Lewei Lu , Bin Li , Xiaogang Wang , Jifeng Dai

Robust object detection for Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) in complex water environments is essential for reliable navigation and operation. Specifically, water surface object detection faces challenges from blurred edges and diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Huilin Yin , Pengyu Wang , Senmao Li , Jun Yan , Daniel Watzenig

In this paper, we formally address universal object detection, which aims to detect every scene and predict every category. The dependence on human annotations, the limited visual information, and the novel categories in the open world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Zhenyu Wang , Yali Li , Xi Chen , Ser-Nam Lim , Antonio Torralba , Hengshuang Zhao , Shengjin Wang

The superior performance of object detectors is often established under the condition that the test samples are in the same distribution as the training data. However, in many practical applications, out-of-distribution (OOD) instances are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Tianhao Zhang , Shenglin Wang , Nidhal Bouaynaya , Radu Calinescu , Lyudmila Mihaylova

Object Detection is the task of identifying the existence of an object class instance and locating it within an image. Difficulties in handling high intra-class variations constitute major obstacles to achieving high performance on standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-12-04 Osama Khalil , Andrew Habib

Our work addresses the problem of learning to localize objects in an open-world setting, i.e., given the bounding box information of a limited number of object classes during training, the goal is to localize all objects, belonging to both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Ashish Singh , Michael J. Jones , Kuan-Chuan Peng , Anoop Cherian , Moitreya Chatterjee , Erik Learned-Miller

Object detection has recently seen an interesting trend in terms of the most innovative research work, this task being of particular importance in the field of remote sensing, given the consistency of these images in terms of geographical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Anasse Boutayeb , Iyad Lahsen-cherif , Ahmed El Khadimi