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LiDAR-based 3D object detection has become an essential part of automated driving due to its ability to localize and classify objects precisely in 3D. However, object detectors face a critical challenge when dealing with unknown foreground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Michael Kösel , Marcel Schreiber , Michael Ulrich , Claudius Gläser , Klaus Dietmayer

Because of its use in practice, open-world object detection (OWOD) has gotten a lot of attention recently. The challenge is how can a model detect novel classes and then incrementally learn them without forgetting previously known classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Qian Wan , Xiang Xiang , Qinhao Zhou

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

Oriented object detection is a fundamental yet challenging task in remote sensing (RS), aiming to locate and classify objects with arbitrary orientations. Recent advancements in deep learning have significantly enhanced the capabilities of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Kun Wang , Zi Wang , Zhang Li , Ang Su , Xichao Teng , Erting Pan , Minhao Liu , Qifeng Yu

Open World Object Detection (OWOD) is a challenging and realistic task that extends beyond the scope of standard Object Detection task. It involves detecting both known and unknown objects while integrating learned knowledge for future…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Thang Doan , Xin Li , Sima Behpour , Wenbin He , Liang Gou , Liu Ren

Autonomous systems rely on accurate 3D object detection from LiDAR data, yet most detectors are limited to a predefined set of known classes, making them vulnerable to unexpected out-of-distribution (OOD) objects. In this work, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Louis Soum-Fontez , Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud , François Goulette

Conventional camera-based 3D object detectors in autonomous driving are limited to recognizing a predefined set of objects, which poses a safety risk when encountering novel or unseen objects in real-world scenarios. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhuolin He , Xinrun Li , Jiacheng Tang , Shoumeng Qiu , Wenfu Wang , Xiangyang Xue , Jian Pu

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is critical to ensuring the reliability and safety of machine learning systems. For instance, in autonomous driving, we would like the driving system to issue an alert and hand over the control to humans…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Jingkang Yang , Kaiyang Zhou , Yixuan Li , Ziwei Liu

We introduce and tackle the problem of zero-shot object detection (ZSD), which aims to detect object classes which are not observed during training. We work with a challenging set of object classes, not restricting ourselves to similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Ankan Bansal , Karan Sikka , Gaurav Sharma , Rama Chellappa , Ajay Divakaran

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

As an essential problem in computer vision, salient object detection (SOD) has attracted an increasing amount of research attention over the years. Recent advances in SOD are predominantly led by deep learning-based solutions (named deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Wenguan Wang , Qiuxia Lai , Huazhu Fu , Jianbing Shen , Haibin Ling , Ruigang Yang

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is vital to safety-critical machine learning applications and has thus been extensively studied, with a plethora of methods developed in the literature. However, the field currently lacks a unified,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Jingkang Yang , Pengyun Wang , Dejian Zou , Zitang Zhou , Kunyuan Ding , Wenxuan Peng , Haoqi Wang , Guangyao Chen , Bo Li , Yiyou Sun , Xuefeng Du , Kaiyang Zhou , Wayne Zhang , Dan Hendrycks , Yixuan Li , Ziwei Liu

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

Out-of-distribution (OOD) object detection is an important yet underexplored task. A reliable object detector should be able to handle OOD objects by localizing and correctly classifying them as OOD. However, a critical issue arises when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Sadia Ilyas , Annika Mütze , Klaus Friedrichs , Thomas Kurbiel , Matthias Rottmann

Open-set panoptic segmentation (OPS) problem is a new research direction aiming to perform segmentation for both \known classes and \unknown classes, i.e., the objects ("things") that are never annotated in the training set. The main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Hai-Ming Xu , Hao Chen , Lingqiao Liu , Yufei Yin

Machine learning models often encounter samples that are diverged from the training distribution. Failure to recognize an out-of-distribution (OOD) sample, and consequently assign that sample to an in-class label significantly compromises…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Mohammadreza Salehi , Hossein Mirzaei , Dan Hendrycks , Yixuan Li , Mohammad Hossein Rohban , Mohammad Sabokrou

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

The Unified Object Detection (UOD) task aims to achieve object detection of all merged categories through training on multiple datasets, and is of great significance in comprehensive object detection scenarios. In this paper, we conduct a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 XiaoJun Tang , Jingru Wang , Zeyu Shangguan , Darun Tang , Yuyu Liu

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 this work, we address the challenging and emergent problem of novel object detection (NOD), focusing on the accurate detection of both known and novel object categories during inference. Traditional object detection algorithms are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Rohit Bharadwaj , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan