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Vision-language models (VLMs) excel in visual understanding but often lack reliable grounding capabilities and actionable inference rates. Integrating them with open-vocabulary object detection (OVD), instance segmentation, and tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Bastian Pätzold , Jan Nogga , Sven Behnke

Open-vocabulary object detection models allow users to freely specify a class vocabulary in natural language at test time, guiding the detection of desired objects. However, vocabularies can be overly broad or even mis-specified, hampering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Mingxuan Liu , Tyler L. Hayes , Massimiliano Mancini , Elisa Ricci , Riccardo Volpi , Gabriela Csurka

Conventional object detectors typically operate under a closed-set assumption, limiting recognition to a predefined set of base classes seen during training. Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) addresses this limitation by leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Sanghoon Lee , Geon Lee , Hyekang Park , Bumsub Ham

Object search is a challenging task because when given complex language descriptions (e.g., "find the white cup on the table"), the robot must move its camera through the environment and recognize the described object. Previous works map…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Thao Nguyen , Vladislav Hrosinkov , Eric Rosen , Stefanie Tellex

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

Existing studies typically investigate domain shift and category shift as independent problems, however, in real-world scenarios, the two types of shifts often occur simultaneously and interact, leading to significant degradation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yupeng Zhang , Ruize Han , Fangnan Zhou , Wei Feng , Liang Wan

Recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are remarkable in vision-language tasks, such as image captioning and question answering, but lack the essential perception ability, i.e., object detection. In this work, we address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yuhang Zang , Wei Li , Jun Han , Kaiyang Zhou , Chen Change Loy

To alleviate the cost of obtaining accurate bounding boxes for training today's state-of-the-art object detection models, recent weakly supervised detection work has proposed techniques to learn from image-level labels. However, requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Keren Ye , Mingda Zhang , Wei Li , Danfeng Qin , Adriana Kovashka , Jesse Berent

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

Classical object detectors are incapable of detecting novel class objects that are not encountered before. Regarding this issue, Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVOD) is proposed, which aims to detect the objects in the candidate class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Zhao Wang , Aoxue Li , Fengwei Zhou , Zhenguo Li , Qi Dou

Recently, the emergence of the large-scale vision-language model (VLM), such as CLIP, has opened the way towards open-world object perception. Many works have explored the utilization of pre-trained VLM for the challenging open-vocabulary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Youwei Pang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Jiaming Zuo , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

In this paper, we study the challenging instance-wise vision-language tasks, where the free-form language is required to align with the objects instead of the whole image. To address these tasks, we propose X-DETR, whose architecture has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Zhaowei Cai , Gukyeong Kwon , Avinash Ravichandran , Erhan Bas , Zhuowen Tu , Rahul Bhotika , Stefano Soatto

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) has been studied with Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to detect novel objects beyond the pre-trained categories. Previous approaches improve the generalization ability to expand the knowledge of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Jooyeon Kim , Eulrang Cho , Sehyung Kim , Hyunwoo J. Kim

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

Recent studies on generalizable object detection have attracted increasing attention with additional weak supervision from large-scale datasets with image-level labels. However, weakly-supervised detection learning often suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Jiaxing Huang , Jingyi Zhang , Kai Jiang , Shijian Lu

Traditional object detection methods operate under the closed-set assumption, where models can only detect a fixed number of objects predefined in the training set. Recent works on open vocabulary object detection (OVD) enable the detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zizhao Li , Zhengkang Xiang , Joseph West , Kourosh Khoshelham

Open-vocabulary instance segmentation aims at segmenting novel classes without mask annotations. It is an important step toward reducing laborious human supervision. Most existing works first pretrain a model on captioned images covering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Dat Huynh , Jason Kuen , Zhe Lin , Jiuxiang Gu , Ehsan Elhamifar

Learning an object detector or retrieval requires a large data set with manual annotations. Such data sets are expensive and time consuming to create and therefore difficult to obtain on a large scale. In this work, we propose to exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Elad Amrani , Rami Ben-Ari , Tal Hakim , Alex Bronstein

The task of open-vocabulary object-centric image retrieval involves the retrieval of images containing a specified object of interest, delineated by an open-set text query. As working on large image datasets becomes standard, solving this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Hila Levi , Guy Heller , Dan Levi , Ethan Fetaya

Recent generalist vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive reasoning capabilities across diverse multimodal tasks. However, these models still struggle with fine-grained object-level understanding and grounding. In terms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Timothy Ossowski , Junjie Hu