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Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVOD) aims to enable detectors to generalize across categories by leveraging semantic information. Although existing methods are pretrained on large vision-language datasets, their inference is still…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chujie Wang , Jianyu Lu , Zhiyuan Luo , Xi Chen , Chu He

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) aims to scale up vocabulary size to detect objects of novel categories beyond the training vocabulary. Recent work resorts to the rich knowledge in pre-trained vision-language models. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Peixian Chen , Kekai Sheng , Mengdan Zhang , Mingbao Lin , Yunhang Shen , Shaohui Lin , Bo Ren , Ke Li

Open-vocabulary detection (OVD) is a challenging task to detect and classify objects from an unrestricted set of categories, including those unseen during training. Existing open-vocabulary detectors are limited by complex visual-textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Caixiong Li , Xiongwei Zhao , Jinhang Zhang , Xing Zhang , Qihao Sun , Zhou Wu

We aim at advancing open-vocabulary object detection, which detects objects described by arbitrary text inputs. The fundamental challenge is the availability of training data. It is costly to further scale up the number of classes contained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Xiuye Gu , Tsung-Yi Lin , Weicheng Kuo , Yin Cui

A key benefit of deep vision-language models such as CLIP is that they enable zero-shot open vocabulary classification; the user has the ability to define novel class labels via natural language prompts at inference time. However, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 A K Nirala , A Joshi , C Hegde , S Sarkar

Recent works on open-vocabulary 3D instance segmentation show strong promise, but at the cost of slow inference speed and high computation requirements. This high computation cost is typically due to their heavy reliance on 3D clip…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Mohamed El Amine Boudjoghra , Angela Dai , Jean Lahoud , Hisham Cholakkal , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Open-vocabulary detectors are proposed to locate and recognize objects in novel classes. However, variations in vision-aware language vocabulary data used for open-vocabulary learning can lead to unfair and unreliable evaluations. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Ying Liu , Yijing Hua , Haojiang Chai , Yanbo Wang , TengQi Ye

Open-vocabulary object detection, which is concerned with the problem of detecting novel objects guided by natural language, has gained increasing attention from the community. Ideally, we would like to extend an open-vocabulary detector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Yuhang Zang , Wei Li , Kaiyang Zhou , Chen Huang , Chen Change Loy

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

Aerial object detection plays a crucial role in numerous applications. However, most existing methods focus on detecting predefined object categories, limiting their applicability in real-world open scenarios. In this paper, we extend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Guoting Wei , Xia Yuan , Yu Liu , Zhenhao Shang , Xizhe Xue , Peng Wang , Kelu Yao , Chunxia Zhao , Haokui Zhang , Rong Xiao

Fine-grained open-vocabulary object detection (FG-OVD) aims to detect novel object categories described by attribute-rich texts. While existing open-vocabulary detectors show promise at the base-category level, they underperform in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jiaming Li , Zhijia Liang , Weikai Chen , Lin Ma , Guanbin Li

Visual prompt-based methods have seen growing interest in incremental learning (IL) for image classification. These approaches learn additional embedding vectors while keeping the model frozen, making them efficient to train. However, no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Matthias Neuwirth-Trapp , Maarten Bieshaar , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) models are considered to be Large Multi-modal Models (LMM), due to their extensive training data and a large number of parameters. Mainstream OVD models prioritize object coarse-grained category rather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yuqi Ma , Mengyin Liu , Chao Zhu , Xu-Cheng Yin

Due to its extensive applications, aerial image object detection has long been a hot topic in computer vision. In recent years, advancements in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) technology have further propelled this field to new heights,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yang Zhou , Junjie Li , CongYang Ou , Dawei Yan , Haokui Zhang , Xizhe Xue

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) aims at localizing and recognizing visual objects from novel classes unseen at the training time. Whereas, empirical studies reveal that advanced detectors generally assign lower scores to those novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Yanhao Zheng , Kai Liu

Large foundation models trained on large-scale vision-language data can boost Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVD) via synthetic training data, yet the hand-crafted pipelines often introduce bias and overfit to specific prompts. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yang Zhou , Shiyu Zhao , Yuxiao Chen , Zhenting Wang , Can Jin , Dimitris N. Metaxas

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

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) aims to recognize and localize object categories beyond the training set. Recent approaches leverage vision-language models to generate pseudo-labels using image-text alignment, allowing detectors to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Hojun Choi , Youngsun Lim , Jaeyo Shin , Hyunjung Shim

Enabling models to recognize vast open-world categories has been a longstanding pursuit in object detection. By leveraging the generalization capabilities of vision-language models, current open-world detectors can recognize a broader range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yitong Chen , Wenhao Yao , Lingchen Meng , Sihong Wu , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

As the most fundamental scene understanding tasks, object detection and segmentation have made tremendous progress in deep learning era. Due to the expensive manual labeling cost, the annotated categories in existing datasets are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Chaoyang Zhu , Long Chen