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Recent advances in self-supervised visual representation learning have paved the way for unsupervised methods tackling tasks such as object discovery and instance segmentation. However, discovering objects in an image with no supervision is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Oriane Siméoni , Chloé Sekkat , Gilles Puy , Antonin Vobecky , Éloi Zablocki , Patrick Pérez

This work proposes a process for efficiently training a point-wise object detector that enables localizing objects and computing their 6D poses in cluttered and occluded scenes. Accurate pose estimation is typically a requirement for robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Jean-Philippe Mercier , Chaitanya Mitash , Philippe Giguère , Abdeslam Boularias

We propose Visual Query Detection (VQD), a new visual grounding task. In VQD, a system is guided by natural language to localize a variable number of objects in an image. VQD is related to visual referring expression recognition, where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Manoj Acharya , Karan Jariwala , Christopher Kanan

We present an algorithm for searching image collections using free-hand sketches that describe the appearance and relative positions of multiple objects. Sketch based image retrieval (SBIR) methods predominantly match queries containing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Alexander Black , Tu Bui , Long Mai , Hailin Jin , John Collomosse

Grasping unknown objects from a single view has remained a challenging topic in robotics due to the uncertainty of partial observation. Recent advances in large-scale models have led to benchmark solutions such as GraspNet-1Billion.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Hao Chen , Takuya Kiyokawa , Zhengtao Hu , Weiwei Wan , Kensuke Harada

2D object proposals, quickly detected regions in an image that likely contain an object of interest, are an effective approach for improving the computational efficiency and accuracy of object detection in color images. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Ramanpreet Singh Pahwa , Jiangbo Lu , Nianjuan Jiang , Tian Tsong Ng , Minh N. Do

Open-world interactive object search in household environments requires understanding semantic relationships between objects and their surrounding context to guide exploration efficiently. Prior methods either rely on vision-language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Imen Mahdi , Matteo Cassinelli , Fabien Despinoy , Tim Welschehold , Abhinav Valada

Mapping and localization are two essential tasks for mobile robots in real-world applications. However, largescale and dynamic scenes challenge the accuracy and robustness of most current mature solutions. This situation becomes even worse…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Fan Wang , Chaofan Zhang , Fulin Tang , Hongkui Jiang , Yihong Wu , Yong Liu

We propose a novel task of text-controlled human object interaction generation in 3D scenes with movable objects. Existing human-scene interaction datasets suffer from insufficient interaction categories and typically only consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xinhao Cai , Minghang Zheng , Xin Jin , Yang Liu

Unsupervised object discovery is commonly interpreted as the task of localizing and/or categorizing objects in visual data without the need for labeled examples. While current object recognition methods have proven highly effective for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 José-Fabian Villa-Vásquez , Marco Pedersoli

Despite the importance of unsupervised object detection, to the best of our knowledge, there is no previous work addressing this problem. One main issue, widely known to the community, is that object boundaries derived only from 2D image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Hao Tian , Yuntao Chen , Jifeng Dai , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Xizhou Zhu

Our work addresses the problem of learning to localize objects in an open-world setting, i.e., given the bounding box information of a limited number of object classes during training, the goal is to localize all objects, belonging to both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Ashish Singh , Michael J. Jones , Kuan-Chuan Peng , Anoop Cherian , Moitreya Chatterjee , Erik Learned-Miller

Text-guided diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in object inpainting by providing high-level semantic guidance through text prompts. However, they often lack precise pixel-level spatial control, especially in scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yongle Zhang , Yimin Liu , Yan Huang , Qiang Wu

Object counting and localization are key steps for quantitative analysis in large-scale microscopy applications. This procedure becomes challenging when target objects are overlapping, are densely clustered, and/or present fuzzy boundaries.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Shijie Li , Thomas Ach , Guido Gerig

Effectively and efficiently retrieving images from remote sensing databases is a critical challenge in the realm of remote sensing big data. Utilizing hand-drawn sketches as retrieval inputs offers intuitive and user-friendly advantages,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Bo Yang , Chen Wang , Xiaoshuang Ma , Beiping Song , Zhuang Liu , Fangde Sun

Category-level object pose estimation, which predicts the pose of objects within a known category without prior knowledge of individual instances, is essential in applications like warehouse automation and manufacturing. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Yifan Yang , Peili Song , Enfan Lan , Dong Liu , Jingtai Liu

We present a novel approach to object classification and detection which requires minimal supervision and which combines visual texture cues and shape information learned from freely available unlabeled web search results. The explosion of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Xingchao Peng , Kate Saenko

We introduce the novel task of Language-Guided Object Placement in Real 3D Scenes. Our model is given a 3D scene's point cloud, a 3D asset, and a textual prompt broadly describing where the 3D asset should be placed. The task here is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Ahmed Abdelreheem , Filippo Aleotti , Jamie Watson , Zawar Qureshi , Abdelrahman Eldesokey , Peter Wonka , Gabriel Brostow , Sara Vicente , Guillermo Garcia-Hernando

Multiple sketch datasets have been proposed to understand how people draw 3D objects. However, such datasets are often of small scale and cover a small set of objects or categories. In addition, these datasets contain freehand sketches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Chufeng Xiao , Wanchao Su , Jing Liao , Zhouhui Lian , Yi-Zhe Song , Hongbo Fu

Object pose estimation is a critical task in robotics for precise object manipulation. However, current techniques heavily rely on a reference 3D object, limiting their generalizability and making it expensive to expand to new object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 E. Zhixuan Zeng , Yuhao Chen , Alexander Wong