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While today's robots are able to perform sophisticated tasks, they can only act on objects they have been trained to recognize. This is a severe limitation: any robot will inevitably see new objects in unconstrained settings, and thus will…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Massimiliano Mancini , Hakan Karaoguz , Elisa Ricci , Patric Jensfelt , Barbara Caputo

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

Annotating remote sensing images (RSIs) presents a notable challenge due to its labor-intensive nature. Semi-supervised object detection (SSOD) methods tackle this issue by generating pseudo-labels for the unlabeled data, assuming that all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Nanqing Liu , Xun Xu , Yingjie Gao , Heng-Chao Li

With the rise of deep convolutional neural networks, object detection has achieved prominent advances in past years. However, such prosperity could not camouflage the unsatisfactory situation of Small Object Detection (SOD), one of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Gong Cheng , Xiang Yuan , Xiwen Yao , Kebing Yan , Qinghua Zeng , Xingxing Xie , Junwei Han

Weakly Supervised Object Detection (WSOD) is a task that detects objects in an image using a model trained only on image-level annotations. Current state-of-the-art models benefit from self-supervised instance-level supervision, but since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Jinhwan Seo , Wonho Bae , Danica J. Sutherland , Junhyug Noh , Daijin Kim

Open-vocabulary detection (OVD) is a new object detection paradigm, aiming to localize and recognize unseen objects defined by an unbounded vocabulary. This is challenging since traditional detectors can only learn from pre-defined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Jincheng Li , Chunyu Xie , Xiaoyu Wu , Bin Wang , Dawei Leng

Despite the remarkable progress in recent years, detecting objects in a new context remains a challenging task. Detectors learned from a public dataset can only work with a fixed list of categories, while training from scratch usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Kai Chen , Hang Song , Chen Change Loy , Dahua Lin

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

In Open Set Domain Adaptation (OSDA), large amounts of target samples are drawn from the implicit categories that never appear in the source domain. Due to the lack of their specific belonging, existing methods indiscriminately regard them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Jingyu Zhuang , Ziliang Chen , Pengxu Wei , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

Object detection models perform well at localizing and classifying objects that they are shown during training. However, due to the difficulty and cost associated with creating and annotating detection datasets, trained models detect a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Ayush Jaiswal , Yue Wu , Pradeep Natarajan , Premkumar Natarajan

For decades, Computer Vision has aimed at enabling machines to perceive the external world. Initial limitations led to the development of highly specialized niches. As success in each task accrued and research progressed, increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Andrei-Stefan Bulzan , Cosmin Cernazanu-Glavan

The human visual perception system demonstrates exceptional capabilities in learning without explicit supervision and understanding the part-to-whole composition of objects. Drawing inspiration from these two abilities, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Shengcao Cao , Dhiraj Joshi , Liang-Yan Gui , Yu-Xiong Wang

This paper addresses the open set recognition (OSR) problem, where the goal is to correctly classify samples of known classes while detecting unknown samples to reject. In the OSR problem, "unknown" is assumed to have infinite possibilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Jaeyeon Jang

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

Object detection is a crucial task in computer vision that aims to identify and localize objects in images or videos. The recent advancements in deep learning and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have significantly improved the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Hrishitva Patel

Given multiple datasets with different label spaces, the goal of this work is to train a single object detector predicting over the union of all the label spaces. The practical benefits of such an object detector are obvious and significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Xiangyun Zhao , Samuel Schulter , Gaurav Sharma , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Manmohan Chandraker , Ying Wu

Recent works have shown that objects discovery can largely benefit from the inherent motion information in video data. However, these methods lack a proper background processing, resulting in an over-segmentation of the non-object regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Sandra Kara , Hejer Ammar , Florian Chabot , Quoc-Cuong Pham

Most of the existing recognition algorithms are proposed for closed set scenarios, where all categories are known beforehand. However, in practice, recognition is essentially an open set problem. There are categories we know called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Yu Shu , Yemin Shi , Yaowei Wang , Tiejun Huang , Yonghong Tian

Object detection is an essential and fundamental task in computer vision and satellite image processing. Existing deep learning methods have achieved impressive performance thanks to the availability of large-scale annotated datasets. Yet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Fahong Zhang , Yilei Shi , Zhitong Xiong , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for ensuring the reliability of deep learning models. Existing methods mostly focus on regular entangled representations to discriminate in-distribution (ID) and OOD data, neglecting the rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Boyang Dai , Chaoqi Chen , Yizhou Yu