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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

Safe navigation of self-driving cars and robots requires a precise understanding of their environment. Training data for perception systems cannot cover the wide variety of objects that may appear during deployment. Thus, reliable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Alexey Nekrasov , Rui Zhou , Miriam Ackermann , Alexander Hermans , Bastian Leibe , Matthias Rottmann

When an object detector is deployed in a novel setting it often experiences a drop in performance. This paper studies how an embodied agent can automatically fine-tune a pre-existing object detector while exploring and acquiring images in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Gianluca Scarpellini , Stefano Rosa , Pietro Morerio , Lorenzo Natale , Alessio Del Bue

Modern object detectors have achieved impressive progress under the close-set setup. However, open-set object detection (OSOD) remains challenging since objects of unknown categories are often misclassified to existing known classes. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Jiaming Han , Yuqiang Ren , Jian Ding , Xingjia Pan , Ke Yan , Gui-Song Xia

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

Supervised learning aims to train a classifier under the assumption that training and test data are from the same distribution. To ease the above assumption, researchers have studied a more realistic setting: out-of-distribution (OOD)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Zhen Fang , Yixuan Li , Feng Liu , Bo Han , Jie Lu

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

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is a critical task to ensure the reliability and security of machine learning models deployed in real-world applications. Conventional methods for OOD detection that rely on single-modal information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 K Huang , G Song , Hanwen Su , Jiyan Wang

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection has attracted a large amount of attention from the machine learning research community in recent years due to its importance in deployed systems. Most of the previous studies focused on the detection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Alon Zolfi , Guy Amit , Amit Baras , Satoru Koda , Ikuya Morikawa , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

Unsupervised object discovery, the task of identifying and localizing objects in images without human-annotated labels, remains a significant challenge and a growing focus in computer vision. In this work, we introduce a novel model, DADO…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Federico Gonzalez , Estefania Talavera , Petia Radeva

When deployed for risk-sensitive tasks, deep neural networks must be able to detect instances with labels from outside the distribution for which they were trained. In this paper we present a novel framework to benchmark the ability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Ido Galil , Mohammed Dabbah , Ran El-Yaniv

Detecting objects based on language information is a popular task that includes Open-Vocabulary object Detection (OVD) and Referring Expression Comprehension (REC). In this paper, we advance them to a more practical setting called Described…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Chi Xie , Zhao Zhang , Yixuan Wu , Feng Zhu , Rui Zhao , Shuang Liang

3D object detection plays a crucial role in autonomous systems, yet existing methods are limited by closed-set assumptions and struggle to recognize novel objects and their attributes in real-world scenarios. We propose OVODA, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Xinhao Xiang , Kuan-Chuan Peng , Suhas Lohit , Michael J. Jones , Jiawei Zhang

Category discovery (CD) is an emerging open-world learning task, which aims at automatically categorizing unlabelled data containing instances from unseen classes, given some labelled data from seen classes. This task has attracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhenqi He , Yuanpei Liu , Kai Han

Traditional semi-supervised learning tasks assume that both labeled and unlabeled data follow the same class distribution, but the realistic open-world scenarios are of more complexity with unknown novel classes mixed in the unlabeled set.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Jiaming Liu , Yangqiming Wang , Tongze Zhang , Yulu Fan , Qinli Yang , Junming Shao

We focus on the challenge of out-of-distribution (OOD) detection in deep learning models, a crucial aspect in ensuring reliability. Despite considerable effort, the problem remains significantly challenging in deep learning models due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yunhao Ge , Jie Ren , Jiaping Zhao , Kaifeng Chen , Andrew Gallagher , Laurent Itti , Balaji Lakshminarayanan

In recent years, deep neural networks have defined the state-of-the-art in semantic segmentation where their predictions are constrained to a predefined set of semantic classes. They are to be deployed in applications such as automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Kira Maag , Tobias Riedlinger

This paper addresses the significant challenge in open-set object detection (OSOD): the tendency of state-of-the-art detectors to erroneously classify unknown objects as known categories with high confidence. We present a novel approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Prakash Mallick , Feras Dayoub , Jamie Sherrah

Traditional object detection answers two questions; "what" (what the object is?) and "where" (where the object is?). "what" part of the object detection can be fine-grained further i.e. "what type", "what shape" and "what material" etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Addel Zafar , Umar Khalid

Object detection has advanced significantly in the closed-set setting, but real-world deployment remains limited by two challenges: poor generalization to unseen categories and insufficient robustness under adverse conditions. Prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Siheng Wang , Zhengdao Li , Yanshu Li , Canran Xiao , Haibo Zhan , Zhengtao Yao , Xuzhi Zhang , Jiale Kang , Linshan Li , Weiming Liu , Zhikang Dong , Jifeng Shen , Junhao Dong , Qiang Sun , Piotr Koniusz