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Vision-language object detectors (VLODs) such as YOLO-World and Grounding DINO exhibit strong zero-shot generalization, but their performance degrades under distribution shift. Test-time adaptation (TTA) offers a practical way to adapt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Atif Belal , Heitor R. Medeiros , Marco Pedersoli , Eric Granger

Classical object detectors are incapable of detecting novel class objects that are not encountered before. Regarding this issue, Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVOD) is proposed, which aims to detect the objects in the candidate class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Zhao Wang , Aoxue Li , Fengwei Zhou , Zhenguo Li , Qi Dou

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 object detection (OWOD) is a challenging problem that combines object detection with incremental learning and open-set learning. Compared to standard object detection, the OWOD setting is task to: 1) detect objects seen during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Jinan Yu , Liyan Ma , Zhenglin Li , Yan Peng , Shaorong Xie

Because of its use in practice, open-world object detection (OWOD) has gotten a lot of attention recently. The challenge is how can a model detect novel classes and then incrementally learn them without forgetting previously known classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Qian Wan , Xiang Xiang , Qinhao Zhou

Language-based object detection (LOD) aims to align visual objects with language expressions. A large amount of paired data is utilized to improve LOD model generalizations. During the training process, recent studies leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yuming Chen , Jiangyan Feng , Haodong Zhang , Lijun Gong , Feng Zhu , Rui Zhao , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng , Yibing Song

Object detection (OD), a crucial vision task, remains challenged by the lack of large training datasets with precise object localization labels. In this work, we propose ALWOD, a new framework that addresses this problem by fusing active…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Yuting Wang , Velibor Ilic , Jiatong Li , Branislav Kisacanin , Vladimir Pavlovic

We present a new open-vocabulary detection framework. Our framework uses both image-level labels and detailed detection annotations when available. Our framework proceeds in three steps. We first train a language-conditioned object detector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Jang Hyun Cho , Philipp Krähenbühl

The You Only Look Once (YOLO) series of detectors have established themselves as efficient and practical tools. However, their reliance on predefined and trained object categories limits their applicability in open scenarios. Addressing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Tianheng Cheng , Lin Song , Yixiao Ge , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang , Ying Shan

Open-vocabulary detection (OVD) is an object detection task aiming at detecting objects from novel categories beyond the base categories on which the detector is trained. Recent OVD methods rely on large-scale visual-language pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Xiaoshi Wu , Feng Zhu , Rui Zhao , Hongsheng Li

Open-vocabulary 3D object detection (OV-3DOD) aims at localizing and classifying novel objects beyond closed sets. The recent success of vision-language models (VLMs) has demonstrated their remarkable capabilities to understand open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Youjun Zhao , Jiaying Lin , Rynson W. H. Lau

Open-vocabulary object detection has benefited greatly from pretrained vision-language models, but is still limited by the amount of available detection training data. While detection training data can be expanded by using Web image-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Matthias Minderer , Alexey Gritsenko , Neil Houlsby

In this paper, we consider the problem of simultaneously detecting objects and inferring their visual attributes in an image, even for those with no manual annotations provided at the training stage, resembling an open-vocabulary scenario.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Keyan Chen , Xiaolong Jiang , Yao Hu , Xu Tang , Yan Gao , Jianqi Chen , Weidi Xie

In modern urban environments, camera networks generate massive amounts of operational footage -- reaching petabytes each day -- making scalable video analytics essential for efficient processing. Many existing approaches adopt an SQL-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yanrui Yu , Tianfei Zhou , Jiaxin Sun , Lianpeng Qiao , Lizhong Ding , Ye Yuan , Guoren Wang

Combining simple architectures with large-scale pre-training has led to massive improvements in image classification. For object detection, pre-training and scaling approaches are less well established, especially in the long-tailed and…

Visual object localization is the key step in a series of object detection tasks. In the literature, high localization accuracy is achieved with the mainstream strongly supervised frameworks. However, such methods require object-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Yi-Geng Hong , Hui-Chu Xiao , Wan-Lei Zhao

Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL) methods only require image level labels as opposed to expensive bounding box annotations required by fully supervised algorithms. We study the problem of learning localization model on target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Amir Rahimi , Amirreza Shaban , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Richard Hartley , Byron Boots

Source-free domain adaptation (SFDA) is a challenging problem in object detection, where a pre-trained source model is adapted to a new target domain without using any source domain data for privacy and efficiency reasons. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Simon Varailhon , Masih Aminbeidokhti , Marco Pedersoli , Eric Granger

Open-vocabulary detection (OVD) is a new object detection paradigm, aiming to localize and recognize unseen objects defined by an unbounded vocabulary. This is challenging since traditional detectors can only learn from pre-defined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Jincheng Li , Chunyu Xie , Xiaoyu Wu , Bin Wang , Dawei Leng

Open-vocabulary 3D Object Detection (OV-3DDet) aims to detect objects from an arbitrary list of categories within a 3D scene, which remains seldom explored in the literature. There are primarily two fundamental problems in OV-3DDet, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Yang Cao , Yihan Zeng , Hang Xu , Dan Xu