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Identifying potential objects is critical for object recognition and analysis across various computer vision applications. Existing methods typically localize potential objects by relying on exemplar images, predefined categories, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Qihong Tang , Changhan Liu , Shaofeng Zhang , Wenbin Li , Qi Fan , Yang Gao

The ability to segment objects based on open-ended language prompts remains a critical challenge, requiring models to ground textual semantics into precise spatial masks while handling diverse and unseen categories. We present OpenWorldSAM,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Shiting Xiao , Rishabh Kabra , Yuhang Li , Donghyun Lee , Joao Carreira , Priyadarshini Panda

We present Region-aware Open-vocabulary Vision Transformers (RO-ViT) - a contrastive image-text pretraining recipe to bridge the gap between image-level pretraining and open-vocabulary object detection. At the pretraining phase, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Dahun Kim , Anelia Angelova , Weicheng Kuo

Text prompts are crucial for generalizing pre-trained open-set object detection models to new categories. However, current methods for text prompts are limited as they require manual feedback when generalizing to new categories, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Qibo Chen , Weizhong Jin , Shuchang Li , Mengdi Liu , Li Yu , Jian Jiang , Xiaozheng Wang

In this work, we propose an open-vocabulary object detection method that, based on image-caption pairs, learns to detect novel object classes along with a given set of known classes. It is a two-stage training approach that first uses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Maria A. Bravo , Sudhanshu Mittal , Thomas Brox

Exploring open-vocabulary video action recognition is a promising venture, which aims to recognize previously unseen actions within any arbitrary set of categories. Existing methods typically adapt pretrained image-text models to the video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Chengyou Jia , Minnan Luo , Xiaojun Chang , Zhuohang Dang , Mingfei Han , Mengmeng Wang , Guang Dai , Sizhe Dang , Jingdong Wang

We introduce MQ-Det, an efficient architecture and pre-training strategy design to utilize both textual description with open-set generalization and visual exemplars with rich description granularity as category queries, namely, Multi-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yifan Xu , Mengdan Zhang , Chaoyou Fu , Peixian Chen , Xiaoshan Yang , Ke Li , Changsheng Xu

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) extends recognition beyond fixed taxonomies by aligning visual and textual features, as in MDETR, GLIP, or RegionCLIP. While effective, these models require updating all parameters of large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Bilal Faye , Hanane Azzag , Mustapha Lebbah

Pixel-wise annotations are notoriously labourious and costly to obtain in the medical domain. To mitigate this burden, weakly supervised approaches based on bounding box annotations-much easier to acquire-offer a practical alternative.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Mélanie Gaillochet , Mehrdad Noori , Sahar Dastani , Christian Desrosiers , Hervé Lombaert

This paper addresses the challenging problem of open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) where an object detector must identify both seen and unseen classes in test images without labeled examples of the unseen classes in training. A typical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Chau Pham , Truong Vu , Khoi Nguyen

Recent advances in large vision-language models (VLMs) have shown remarkable progress in solving the text-promptable object counting problem. Representative methods typically specify text prompts with object category information in images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Miaojing Shi , Xiaowen Zhang , Zijie Yue , Yong Luo , Cairong Zhao , Li Li

We introduce the new setting of open-vocabulary object 6D pose estimation, in which a textual prompt is used to specify the object of interest. In contrast to existing approaches, in our setting (i) the object of interest is specified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Jaime Corsetti , Davide Boscaini , Changjae Oh , Andrea Cavallaro , Fabio Poiesi

We propose and study open-vocabulary monocular 3D detection, a novel task that aims to detect objects of any categores in metric 3D space from a single RGB image. Existing 3D object detectors either rely on costly sensors such as LiDAR or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Jin Yao , Hao Gu , Xuweiyi Chen , Jiayun Wang , Zezhou Cheng

3D semantic occupancy prediction aims to reconstruct the 3D geometry and semantics of the surrounding environment. With dense voxel labels, prior works typically formulate it as a dense segmentation task, independently classifying each…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Wuyang Li , Zhu Yu , Alexandre Alahi

Detecting objects in real-world scenes is a complex task due to various challenges, including the vast range of object categories, and potential encounters with previously unknown or unseen objects. The challenges necessitate the…

In pursuit of detecting unstinted objects that extend beyond predefined categories, prior arts of open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) typically resort to pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) for base-to-novel category generalization.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Chuhan Zhang , Chaoyang Zhu , Pingcheng Dong , Long Chen , Dong Zhang

Recent advancements in multimodal vision models have highlighted limitations in late-stage feature fusion and suboptimal query selection for hybrid prompts open-world segmentation, alongside constraints from caption-derived vocabularies. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yuchen Guan , Chong Sun , Canmiao Fu , Zhipeng Huang , Chun Yuan , Chen Li

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

This work proposes POMP, a prompt pre-training method for vision-language models. Being memory and computation efficient, POMP enables the learned prompt to condense semantic information for a rich set of visual concepts with over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shuhuai Ren , Aston Zhang , Yi Zhu , Shuai Zhang , Shuai Zheng , Mu Li , Alex Smola , Xu Sun

Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVOD) aims to enable detectors to generalize across categories by leveraging semantic information. Although existing methods are pretrained on large vision-language datasets, their inference is still…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chujie Wang , Jianyu Lu , Zhiyuan Luo , Xi Chen , Chu He