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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-world (OW) recognition and detection models show strong zero- and few-shot adaptation abilities, inspiring their use as initializations in continual learning methods to improve performance. Despite promising results on seen classes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Bowen Dong , Zitong Huang , Guanglei Yang , Lei Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo

In real-world applications where confidence is key, like autonomous driving, the accurate detection and appropriate handling of classes differing from those used during training are crucial. Despite the proposal of various unknown object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Hejer Ammar , Nikita Kiselov , Guillaume Lapouge , Romaric Audigier

Open-world object detection (OWOD) requires incrementally detecting known categories while reliably identifying unknown objects. Existing methods primarily focus on improving unknown recall, yet overlook interpretability, often leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Xueqiang Lv , Shizhou Zhang , Yinghui Xing , Di Xu , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Open World Object Detection (OWOD) is a challenging and realistic task that extends beyond the scope of standard Object Detection task. It involves detecting both known and unknown objects while integrating learned knowledge for future…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Thang Doan , Xin Li , Sima Behpour , Wenbin He , Liang Gou , Liu Ren

Open-Set Object Detection (OSOD) has emerged as a contemporary research direction to address the detection of unknown objects. Recently, few works have achieved remarkable performance in the OSOD task by employing contrastive clustering to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Hiran Sarkar , Vishal Chudasama , Naoyuki Onoe , Pankaj Wasnik , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Open World Object Detection (OWOD) is a challenging computer vision task that extends standard object detection by (1) detecting and classifying unknown objects without supervision, and (2) incrementally learning new object classes without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Riku Inoue , Masamitsu Tsuchiya , Yuji Yasui

Open-world object detection (OWOD), as a more general and challenging goal, requires the model trained from data on known objects to detect both known and unknown objects and incrementally learn to identify these unknown objects. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Shuailei Ma , Yuefeng Wang , Jiaqi Fan , Ying Wei , Thomas H. Li , Hongli Liu , Fanbing Lv

Open-Set Object Detection (OSOD) is crucial for autonomous driving, where perception systems must recognize and localize both known and previously unseen objects in complex, dynamic environments. While recent approaches deliver promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yuchen Zhang , Yao Lu , Johannes Betz

We tackle the challenging problem of Open-Set Object Detection (OSOD), which aims to detect both known and unknown objects in unlabelled images. The main difficulty arises from the absence of supervision for these unknown classes, making it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Silin Cheng , Yuanpei Liu , Kai Han

For decades, Computer Vision has aimed at enabling machines to perceive the external world. Initial limitations led to the development of highly specialized niches. As success in each task accrued and research progressed, increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Andrei-Stefan Bulzan , Cosmin Cernazanu-Glavan

In many applications, such as autonomous driving, hand manipulation, or robot navigation, object detection methods must be able to detect objects unseen in the training set. Open World Detection(OWD) seeks to tackle this problem by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Sachin Konan , Kevin J Liang , Li Yin

In this work, we tackle the problem of Open World Object Detection (OWOD). This challenging scenario requires the detector to incrementally learn to classify known objects without forgetting while identifying unknown objects without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jun-Woo Heo , Keonhee Park , Gyeong-Moon Park

Traditional semi-supervised object detection methods assume a fixed set of object classes (in-distribution or ID classes) during training and deployment, which limits performance in real-world scenarios where unseen classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Garvita Allabadi , Ana Lucic , Siddarth Aananth , Tiffany Yang , Yu-Xiong Wang , Vikram Adve

Object detection is a pivotal task in computer vision that has received significant attention in previous years. Nonetheless, the capability of a detector to localise objects out of the training distribution remains unexplored. Whilst…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Brian K. S. Isaac-Medina , Yona Falinie A. Gaus , Neelanjan Bhowmik , Toby P. Breckon

With the of advent rich classification models and high computational power visual recognition systems have found many operational applications. Recognition in the real world poses multiple challenges that are not apparent in controlled lab…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Abhijit Bendale , Terrance Boult

Autonomous driving (AD) operates in open-world scenarios, where encountering unknown objects is inevitable. However, standard object detectors trained on a limited number of base classes tend to ignore any unknown objects, posing potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Lars Schmarje , Kaspar Sakman , Reinhard Koch , Dan Zhang

Open world object detection aims at detecting objects that are absent in the object classes of the training data as unknown objects without explicit supervision. Furthermore, the exact classes of the unknown objects must be identified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Na Dong , Yongqiang Zhang , Mingli Ding , Gim Hee Lee

In this work, we address the challenging and emergent problem of novel object detection (NOD), focusing on the accurate detection of both known and novel object categories during inference. Traditional object detection algorithms are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Rohit Bharadwaj , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

This paper addresses the significant challenge in open-set object detection (OSOD): the tendency of state-of-the-art detectors to erroneously classify unknown objects as known categories with high confidence. We present a novel approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Prakash Mallick , Feras Dayoub , Jamie Sherrah