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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

Object detection methods have witnessed impressive improvements in the last years thanks to the design of novel neural network architectures and the availability of large scale datasets. However, current methods have a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Dario Fontanel , Matteo Tarantino , Fabio Cermelli , Barbara Caputo

Real-world object detection must operate in evolving environments where new classes emerge, domains shift, and unseen objects must be identified as "unknown": all without accessing prior data. We introduce Evolving World Object Detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Munish Monga , Vishal Chudasama , Pankaj Wasnik , C. V. Jawahar

Deep learning has enabled remarkable advances in scene understanding, particularly in semantic segmentation tasks. Yet, current state of the art approaches are limited to a closed set of classes, and fail when facing novel elements, also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Nicolas Marchal , Charlotte Moraldo , Roland Siegwart , Hermann Blum , Cesar Cadena , Abel Gawel

Open-set object detection (OSOD) aims to detect the known categories and reject unknown objects in a dynamic world, which has achieved significant attention. However, previous approaches only consider this problem in data-abundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Binyi Su , Hua Zhang , Jingzhi Li , Zhong Zhou

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

Substantial progress has been made in various techniques for open-world recognition. Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection methods can effectively distinguish between known and unknown classes in the data, while incremental learning enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xiang Xiang , Qinhao Zhou , Zhuo Xu , Jing Ma , Jiaxin Dai , Yifan Liang , Hanlin Li

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for ensuring the reliability of deep learning models. Existing methods mostly focus on regular entangled representations to discriminate in-distribution (ID) and OOD data, neglecting the rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Boyang Dai , Chaoqi Chen , Yizhou Yu

Unsupervised 3D object detection leverages heuristic algorithms to discover potential objects, offering a promising route to reduce annotation costs in autonomous driving. Existing approaches mainly generate pseudo labels and refine them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Xusheng Guo , Wanfa Zhang , Shijia Zhao , Qiming Xia , Xiaolong Xie , Mingming Wang , Hai Wu , Chenglu Wen

The human visual perception system demonstrates exceptional capabilities in learning without explicit supervision and understanding the part-to-whole composition of objects. Drawing inspiration from these two abilities, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Shengcao Cao , Dhiraj Joshi , Liang-Yan Gui , Yu-Xiong Wang

Humans have a natural instinct to identify unknown object instances in their environments. The intrinsic curiosity about these unknown instances aids in learning about them, when the corresponding knowledge is eventually available. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 K J Joseph , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

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

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

Detecting both known and unknown objects is a fundamental skill for robot manipulation in unstructured environments. Open-set object detection (OSOD) is a promising direction to handle the problem consisting of two subtasks: objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Zhongxiang Zhou , Yifei Yang , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

Out-Of-Distribution (OOD) detection is critical to deploy deep learning models in safety-critical applications. However, the inherent hierarchical concept structure of visual data, which is instrumental to OOD detection, is often poorly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Alvaro Gonzalez-Jimenez , Simone Lionetti , Dena Bazazian , Philippe Gottfrois , Fabian Gröger , Marc Pouly , Alexander Navarini

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

Robots are becoming increasingly popular in a wide range of environments due to their exceptional work capacity, precision, efficiency, and scalability. This development has been further encouraged by advances in Artificial Intelligence,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Daniel Weber

Out-of-distribution (OOD) object detection is a critical task focused on detecting objects that originate from a data distribution different from that of the training data. In this study, we investigate to what extent state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Sadia Ilyas , Ido Freeman , Matthias Rottmann

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

While today's robots are able to perform sophisticated tasks, they can only act on objects they have been trained to recognize. This is a severe limitation: any robot will inevitably see new objects in unconstrained settings, and thus will…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Massimiliano Mancini , Hakan Karaoguz , Elisa Ricci , Patric Jensfelt , Barbara Caputo