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Exploring new knowledge is a fundamental human ability that can be mirrored in the development of deep neural networks, especially in the field of object detection. Open world object detection (OWOD) is an emerging area of research that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yiming Li , Yi Wang , Wenqian Wang , Dan Lin , Bingbing Li , Kim-Hui Yap

Open World Object Detection (OWOD) is a new and challenging computer vision task that bridges the gap between classic object detection (OD) benchmarks and object detection in the real world. In addition to detecting and classifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Orr Zohar , Kuan-Chieh Wang , Serena Yeung

Open-world object detection (OWOD) is a challenging problem that combines object detection with incremental learning and open-set learning. Compared to standard object detection, the OWOD setting is task to: 1) detect objects seen during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Jinan Yu , Liyan Ma , Zhenglin Li , Yan Peng , Shaorong Xie

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

Most object detectors operate under a closed-world assumption, recognizing only the classes annotated in the training dataset and failing when encountering novel objects. Open-World Object Detection (OWOD) relaxes this assumption by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yuchen Zhang , Yao Lu , Johannes Betz

Object detection is integral to a bevy of real-world applications, from robotics to medical image analysis. To be used reliably in such applications, models must be capable of handling unexpected - or novel - objects. The open world object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Orr Zohar , Alejandro Lozano , Shelly Goel , Serena Yeung , Kuan-Chieh Wang

Open World Object Detection (OWOD) is a novel computer vision task with a considerable challenge, bridging the gap between classic object detection (OD) benchmarks and real-world object detection. In addition to detecting and classifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Shuailei Ma , Yuefeng Wang , Ying Wei , Peihao Chen , Zhixiang Ye , Jiaqi Fan , Enming Zhang , Thomas H. Li

Open World Object Detection(OWOD) addresses realistic scenarios where unseen object classes emerge, enabling detectors trained on known classes to detect unknown objects and incrementally incorporate the knowledge they provide. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Sunoh Lee , Minsik Jeon , Jihong Min , Junwon Seo

Open-world object detection (OWOD) is a challenging computer vision problem, where the task is to detect a known set of object categories while simultaneously identifying unknown objects. Additionally, the model must incrementally learn new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Akshita Gupta , Sanath Narayan , K J Joseph , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

Traditional object detection methods operate under the closed-set assumption, where models can only detect a fixed number of objects predefined in the training set. Recent works on open vocabulary object detection (OVD) enable the detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zizhao Li , Zhengkang Xiang , Joseph West , Kourosh Khoshelham

We address the challenging problem of open world object detection (OWOD), where object detectors must identify objects from known classes while also identifying and continually learning to detect novel objects. Prior work has resulted in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 David Pershouse , Feras Dayoub , Dimity Miller , Niko Sünderhauf

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

Open-world object detection (OWOD) requires incrementally detecting known categories while reliably identifying unknown objects. Existing methods primarily focus on improving unknown recall, yet overlook interpretability, often leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Xueqiang Lv , Shizhou Zhang , Yinghui Xing , Di Xu , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Open-set object detection (OSOD), a task involving the detection of unknown objects while accurately detecting known objects, has recently gained attention. However, we identify a fundamental issue with the problem formulation employed in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yusuke Hosoya , Masanori Suganuma , Takayuki Okatani

Open-World Object Detection (OWOD) extends object detection problem to a realistic and dynamic scenario, where a detection model is required to be capable of detecting both known and unknown objects and incrementally learning newly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Ruohuan Fang , Guansong Pang , Lei Zhou , Xiao Bai , Jin Zheng

With the human pursuit of knowledge, open-set object detection (OSOD) has been designed to identify unknown objects in a dynamic world. However, an issue with the current setting is that all the predicted unknown objects share the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Jiyang Zheng , Weihao Li , Jie Hong , Lars Petersson , Nick Barnes

In real-world applications where confidence is key, like autonomous driving, the accurate detection and appropriate handling of classes differing from those used during training are crucial. Despite the proposal of various unknown object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Hejer Ammar , Nikita Kiselov , Guillaume Lapouge , Romaric Audigier

Open World Object Detection (OWOD) is a challenging computer vision task that extends standard object detection by (1) detecting and classifying unknown objects without supervision, and (2) incrementally learning new object classes without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Riku Inoue , Masamitsu Tsuchiya , Yuji Yasui

Conventional open-world object detection (OWOD) problem setting first distinguishes known and unknown classes and then later incrementally learns the unknown objects when introduced with labels in the subsequent tasks. However, the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Sahal Shaji Mullappilly , Abhishek Singh Gehlot , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Hisham Cholakkal

Humans have a natural instinct to identify unknown object instances in their environments. The intrinsic curiosity about these unknown instances aids in learning about them, when the corresponding knowledge is eventually available. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 K J Joseph , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Vineeth N Balasubramanian
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