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This paper presents DetCLIPv2, an efficient and scalable training framework that incorporates large-scale image-text pairs to achieve open-vocabulary object detection (OVD). Unlike previous OVD frameworks that typically rely on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Lewei Yao , Jianhua Han , Xiaodan Liang , Dan Xu , Wei Zhang , Zhenguo Li , Hang Xu

End-to-end transformer-based detectors (DETRs) have shown exceptional performance in both closed-set and open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) tasks through the integration of language modalities. However, their demanding computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Tiancheng Zhao , Peng Liu , Xuan He , Lu Zhang , Kyusong Lee

To address the limitations of existing open-vocabulary object recognition methods, specifically high system complexity, substantial training costs, and limited generalization, this paper proposes a novel Open-Vocabulary Object Recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Wei Yu Chen , Ying Dai

Existing open-vocabulary object detectors typically enlarge their vocabulary sizes by leveraging different forms of weak supervision. This helps generalize to novel objects at inference. Two popular forms of weak-supervision used in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Hanoona Rasheed , Muhammad Maaz , Muhammad Uzair Khattak , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

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

Zero-shot out-of-vocabulary detection (ZS-OOVD) aims to accurately recognize objects of in-vocabulary (IV) categories provided at zero-shot inference, while simultaneously rejecting undefined ones (out-of-vocabulary, OOV) that lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Binyi Su , Chenghao Huang , Haiyong Chen

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) aims to detect objects beyond the training annotations, where detectors are usually aligned to a pre-trained vision-language model, eg, CLIP, to inherit its generalizable recognition ability so that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Shenghao Fu , Junkai Yan , Qize Yang , Xihan Wei , Xiaohua Xie , Wei-Shi Zheng

Object detection traditionally relies on fixed category sets, requiring costly re-training to handle novel objects. While Open-World and Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OWOD and OVOD) improve flexibility, OWOD lacks semantic labels for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Furkan Mumcu , Michael J. Jones , Anoop Cherian , Yasin Yilmaz

Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVOD) aims to detect novel objects beyond a given set of base categories on which the detection model is trained. Recent OVOD methods focus on adapting the image-level pre-trained vision-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Ruohuan Fang , Guansong Pang , Xiao Bai

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) enables models to recognize objects beyond predefined categories, but existing approaches remain limited in practical deployment. On the one hand, multimodal designs often incur substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Siheng Wang , Yanshu Li , Bohan Hu , Zhengdao Li , Haibo Zhan , Linshan Li , Weiming Liu , Ruizhi Qian , Guangxin Wu , Hao Zhang , Jifeng Shen , Piotr Koniusz , Zhengtao Yao , Junhao Dong , Qiang Sun

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) has made significant progress, enabling detectors to generalize from seen to unseen categories. However, real-world category spaces continually evolve, and existing OVD models still struggle with newly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yupeng Zhang , Ruize Han , Yuzhong Feng , Zixin Ren , Yuntong Tian , Liang Wan

This work proposes POMP, a prompt pre-training method for vision-language models. Being memory and computation efficient, POMP enables the learned prompt to condense semantic information for a rich set of visual concepts with over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shuhuai Ren , Aston Zhang , Yi Zhu , Shuai Zhang , Shuai Zheng , Mu Li , Alex Smola , Xu Sun

Real-time open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) is essential for practical deployment in dynamic environments, where models must recognize a large and evolving set of categories under strict latency constraints. Current real-time OVOD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Leilei Wang , Longfei Liu , Xi Shen , Xuanlong Yu , Ying Tiffany He , Fei Richard Yu , Yingyi Chen

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

X-ray prohibited item detection is an essential component of security check and categories of prohibited item are continuously increasing in accordance with the latest laws. Previous works all focus on close-set scenarios, which can only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Shuyang Lin , Tong Jia , Hao Wang , Bowen Ma , Mingyuan Li , Dongyue Chen

Open-Ended object Detection (OED) is a novel and challenging task that detects objects and generates their category names in a free-form manner, without requiring additional vocabularies during inference. However, the existing OED models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Guiping Cao , Tao Wang , Wenjian Huang , Xiangyuan Lan , Jianguo Zhang , Dongmei Jiang

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) aims to detect both seen and unseen categories, yet existing methods often struggle to generalize to novel objects due to limited integration of global and local contextual cues. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Soichiro Okazaki , Tatsuya Sasaki , Hiroki Ohashi

To identify objects beyond predefined categories, open-vocabulary aerial object detection (OVAD) leverages the zero-shot capabilities of visual-language models (VLMs) to generalize from base to novel categories. Existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jianhang Yao , Yongbin Zheng , Siqi Lu , Wanying Xu , Peng Sun

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

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