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Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) enables models to recognize objects beyond predefined categories, but existing approaches remain limited in practical deployment. On the one hand, multimodal designs often incur substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Siheng Wang , Yanshu Li , Bohan Hu , Zhengdao Li , Haibo Zhan , Linshan Li , Weiming Liu , Ruizhi Qian , Guangxin Wu , Hao Zhang , Jifeng Shen , Piotr Koniusz , Zhengtao Yao , Junhao Dong , Qiang Sun

Open-Ended object Detection (OED) is a novel and challenging task that detects objects and generates their category names in a free-form manner, without requiring additional vocabularies during inference. However, the existing OED models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Guiping Cao , Tao Wang , Wenjian Huang , Xiangyuan Lan , Jianguo Zhang , Dongmei Jiang

An increasingly massive number of remote-sensing images spurs the development of extensible object detectors that can detect objects beyond training categories without costly collecting new labeled data. In this paper, we aim to develop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yan Li , Weiwei Guo , Xue Yang , Ning Liao , Dunyun He , Jiaqi Zhou , Wenxian Yu

Visual prompted object detection enables interactive and flexible definition of target categories, thereby facilitating open-vocabulary detection. Since visual prompts are derived directly from image features, they often outperform text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Bo Qian , Dahu Shi , Xing Wei

Recent advances in open-vocabulary object detection models will enable Automatic Target Recognition systems to be sustainable and repurposed by non-technical end-users for a variety of applications or missions. New, and potentially nuanced,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Louis Y. Kim , Michelle Karker , Victoria Valledor , Seiyoung C. Lee , Karl F. Brzoska , Margaret Duff , Anthony Palladino

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) aims to recognize novel objects whose categories are not included in the training set. In order to classify these unseen classes during training, many OVOD frameworks leverage the zero-shot capability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Joonhyun Jeong , Geondo Park , Jayeon Yoo , Hyungsik Jung , Heesu Kim

Benefiting from large-scale vision-language pre-training on image-text pairs, open-world detection methods have shown superior generalization ability under the zero-shot or few-shot detection settings. However, a pre-defined category space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Yanxin Long , Youpeng Wen , Jianhua Han , Hang Xu , Pengzhen Ren , Wei Zhang , Shen Zhao , Xiaodan Liang

We tackle the challenge of open-vocabulary segmentation, where we need to identify objects from a wide range of categories in different environments, using text prompts as our input. To overcome this challenge, existing methods often use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Yu-Jhe Li , Xinyang Zhang , Kun Wan , Lantao Yu , Ajinkya Kale , Xin Lu

Open-vocabulary object detection, which is concerned with the problem of detecting novel objects guided by natural language, has gained increasing attention from the community. Ideally, we would like to extend an open-vocabulary detector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Yuhang Zang , Wei Li , Kaiyang Zhou , Chen Huang , Chen Change Loy

Combining simple architectures with large-scale pre-training has led to massive improvements in image classification. For object detection, pre-training and scaling approaches are less well established, especially in the long-tailed and…

Recent progress in deterministic prompt learning has become a promising alternative to various downstream vision tasks, enabling models to learn powerful visual representations with the help of pre-trained vision-language models. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Hyeongjun Kwon , Taeyong Song , Somi Jeong , Jin Kim , Jinhyun Jang , Kwanghoon Sohn

Building robust and generic object detection frameworks requires scaling to larger label spaces and bigger training datasets. However, it is prohibitively costly to acquire annotations for thousands of categories at a large scale. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Shiyu Zhao , Zhixing Zhang , Samuel Schulter , Long Zhao , Vijay Kumar B. G , Anastasis Stathopoulos , Manmohan Chandraker , Dimitris Metaxas

In this paper, we consider the problem of simultaneously detecting objects and inferring their visual attributes in an image, even for those with no manual annotations provided at the training stage, resembling an open-vocabulary scenario.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Keyan Chen , Xiaolong Jiang , Yao Hu , Xu Tang , Yan Gao , Jianqi Chen , Weidi Xie

Open-vocabulary object detection in remote sensing commonly relies on text-only prompting to specify target categories, implicitly assuming that inference-time category queries can be reliably grounded through pretraining-induced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Shuai Yang , Ziyue Huang , Jiaxin Chen , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Deep-learning and large scale language-image training have produced image object detectors that generalise well to diverse environments and semantic classes. However, single-image object detectors trained on internet data are not optimally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Nicolas Harvey Chapman , Feras Dayoub , Will Browne , Chris Lehnert

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) aims to scale up vocabulary size to detect objects of novel categories beyond the training vocabulary. Recent work resorts to the rich knowledge in pre-trained vision-language models. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Peixian Chen , Kekai Sheng , Mengdan Zhang , Mingbao Lin , Yunhang Shen , Shaohui Lin , Bo Ren , Ke Li

Open-vocabulary object detection aims to recognize objects from an open set of categories, which leverages vision-language models (VLMs) pre-trained on large-scale image-text data. The cooperative paradigm combines an object detector with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Yazhe Wan , Changjae Oh

Open-vocabulary 3D object detection has recently attracted considerable attention due to its broad applications in autonomous driving and robotics, which aims to effectively recognize novel classes in previously unseen domains. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Rui Huang , Henry Zheng , Yan Wang , Zhuofan Xia , Marco Pavone , Gao Huang

Open-vocabulary object detection focusing on detecting novel categories guided by natural language. In this report, we propose Open-Vocabulary Light-Weighted Detection Transformer (OVLW-DETR), a deployment friendly open-vocabulary detector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yu Wang , Xiangbo Su , Qiang Chen , Xinyu Zhang , Teng Xi , Kun Yao , Errui Ding , Gang Zhang , Jingdong Wang

Prompt-driven image analysis converts a single natural-language instruction into multiple steps: locate, segment, edit, and describe. We present a practical case study of a unified pipeline that combines open-vocabulary detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Kaleem Ahmad