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Locating and retrieving objects from scene-level point clouds is a challenging problem with broad applications in robotics and augmented reality. This task is commonly formulated as open-vocabulary 3D instance segmentation. Although recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Khanh Nguyen , Dasith de Silva Edirimuni , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Ajmal Mian

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

We present LOWA, a novel method for localizing objects with attributes effectively in the wild. It aims to address the insufficiency of current open-vocabulary object detectors, which are limited by the lack of instance-level attribute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Xiaoyuan Guo , Kezhen Chen , Jinmeng Rao , Yawen Zhang , Baochen Sun , Jie Yang

Object tracking is central to robot perception and scene understanding. Tracking-by-detection has long been a dominant paradigm for object tracking of specific object categories. Recently, large-scale pre-trained models have shown promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Wen-Hsuan Chu , Adam W. Harley , Pavel Tokmakov , Achal Dave , Leonidas Guibas , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Systems that can find correspondences between multiple modalities, such as between speech and images, have great potential to solve different recognition and data analysis tasks in an unsupervised manner. This work studies multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Khazar Khorrami , Okko Räsänen

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

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

We focus on the problem of segmenting a certain object referred by a natural language sentence in video content, at the core of formulating a pinpoint vision-language relation. While existing attempts mainly construct such relation in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Chen Liang , Yawei Luo , Yu Wu , Yi Yang

Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVOD) aims to develop the capability to detect anything. Although myriads of large-scale pre-training efforts have built versatile foundation models that exhibit impressive zero-shot capabilities to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Guiying Zhu , Bowen Yang , Yin Zhuang , Tong Zhang , Guanqun Wang , Zhihao Che , He Chen , Lianlin Li

Recently, by introducing large-scale dataset and strong transformer network, video-language pre-training has shown great success especially for retrieval. Yet, existing video-language transformer models do not explicitly fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Alex Jinpeng Wang , Yixiao Ge , Guanyu Cai , Rui Yan , Xudong Lin , Ying Shan , Xiaohu Qie , Mike Zheng Shou

Open-vocabulary segmentation (OVS) extends the zero-shot recognition capabilities of vision-language models (VLMs) to pixel-level prediction, enabling segmentation of arbitrary categories specified by text prompts. Despite recent progress,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Tilemachos Aravanis , Vladan Stojnić , Bill Psomas , Nikos Komodakis , Giorgos Tolias

Progress on object detection is enabled by datasets that focus the research community's attention on open challenges. This process led us from simple images to complex scenes and from bounding boxes to segmentation masks. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Agrim Gupta , Piotr Dollár , Ross Girshick

Traditional object detection models in medical imaging operate within a closed-set paradigm, limiting their ability to detect objects of novel labels. Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) addresses this limitation but remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Tooba Tehreem Sheikh , Jean Lahoud , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Salman Khan , Hisham Cholakkal

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

Visual domain gaps often impact object detection performance. Image-to-image translation can mitigate this effect, where contrastive approaches enable learning of the image-to-image mapping under unsupervised regimes. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Danai Triantafyllidou , Sarah Parisot , Ales Leonardis , Steven McDonagh

Despite the remarkable progress in open-vocabulary object detection (OVD), a significant gap remains between the training and testing phases. During training, the RPN and RoI heads often misclassify unlabeled novel-category objects as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yupeng Zhang , Ruize Han , Zhiwei Chen , Wei Feng , Liang Wan

Image captioning models have lately shown impressive results when applied to standard datasets. Switching to real-life scenarios, however, constitutes a challenge due to the larger variety of visual concepts which are not covered in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Marco Cagrandi , Marcella Cornia , Matteo Stefanini , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Personal robots and driverless cars need to be able to operate in novel environments and thus quickly and efficiently learn to recognise new object classes. We address this problem by considering the task of video object segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Harkirat Singh Behl , Mohammad Najafi , Anurag Arnab , Philip H. S. Torr

In this paper, we explore neural network models that learn to associate segments of spoken audio captions with the semantically relevant portions of natural images that they refer to. We demonstrate that these audio-visual associative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-05 David Harwath , Adrià Recasens , Dídac Surís , Galen Chuang , Antonio Torralba , James Glass

Open-Vocabulary object detectors can generalize to an unrestricted set of categories through simple textual prompting. However, adapting these models to rare classes or reinforcing their abilities on multiple specialized domains remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Chiara Cappellino , Gianluca Mancusi , Matteo Mosconi , Angelo Porrello , Simone Calderara , Rita Cucchiara