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The task of video object segmentation with referring expressions (language-guided VOS) is to, given a linguistic phrase and a video, generate binary masks for the object to which the phrase refers. Our work argues that existing benchmarks…

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In this technical report, we present our findings from the research conducted on the Vast Vocabulary Visual Detection (V3Det) dataset for Supervised Vast Vocabulary Visual Detection task. How to deal with complex categories and detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Peixi Wu , Bosong Chai , Xuan Nie , Longquan Yan , Zeyu Wang , Qifan Zhou , Boning Wang , Yansong Peng , Hebei Li

Referring expression comprehension (REF) aims at identifying a particular object in a scene by a natural language expression. It requires joint reasoning over the textual and visual domains to solve the problem. Some popular referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Zhenfang Chen , Peng Wang , Lin Ma , Kwan-Yee K. Wong , Qi Wu

Open-Vocabulary Detection (OVD) is the task of detecting all interesting objects in a given scene without predefined object classes. Extensive work has been done to deal with the OVD for 2D RGB images, but the exploration of 3D OVD is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Xingyu Peng , Yan Bai , Chen Gao , Lirong Yang , Fei Xia , Beipeng Mu , Xiaofei Wang , Si Liu

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) extends recognition beyond fixed taxonomies by aligning visual and textual features, as in MDETR, GLIP, or RegionCLIP. While effective, these models require updating all parameters of large…

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Recent advancements in 3D object detection and novel category detection have made significant progress, yet research on learning generalized 3D objectness remains insufficient. In this paper, we delve into learning open-world 3D objectness,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Taichi Liu , Zhenyu Wang , Ruofeng Liu , Guang Wang , Desheng Zhang

Referring expression comprehension aims to locate the object instance described by a natural language referring expression in an image. This task is compositional and inherently requires visual reasoning on top of the relationships among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Sibei Yang , Guanbin Li , Yizhou Yu

Visual prompted object detection enables interactive and flexible definition of target categories, thereby facilitating open-vocabulary detection. Since visual prompts are derived directly from image features, they often outperform text…

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Mobile robots rely on object detectors for perception and object localization in indoor environments. However, standard closed-set methods struggle to handle the diverse objects and dynamic conditions encountered in real homes and labs.…

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Traditional object detection models are typically trained on a fixed set of classes, limiting their flexibility and making it costly to incorporate new categories. Open-vocabulary object detection addresses this limitation by enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jyoti Kini , Rohit Gupta , Mubarak Shah

Open World Object Detection (OWOD) is a novel and challenging computer vision task that enables object detection with the ability to detect unknown objects. Existing methods typically estimate the object likelihood with an additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yulin He , Wei Chen , Yusong Tan , Siqi Wang

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…

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In recent years, open-vocabulary (OV) object detection has attracted increasing research attention. Unlike traditional detection, which only recognizes fixed-category objects, OV detection aims to detect objects in an open category set.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Hengcan Shi , Munawar Hayat , Jianfei Cai

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

Open-world object detection (OWOD) is a challenging computer vision problem, where the task is to detect a known set of object categories while simultaneously identifying unknown objects. Additionally, the model must incrementally learn new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Akshita Gupta , Sanath Narayan , K J Joseph , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

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

Referring Camouflaged Object Detection (Ref-COD) focuses on segmenting specific camouflaged targets in a query image using category-aligned references. Despite recent advances, existing methods struggle with reference-target semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ye Wang , Kai Huang , Sumin Shen , Chenyang Ma

Out-of-distribution (OOD) object detection is an important yet underexplored task. A reliable object detector should be able to handle OOD objects by localizing and correctly classifying them as OOD. However, a critical issue arises when…

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Accurately detecting active objects undergoing state changes is essential for comprehending human interactions and facilitating decision-making. The existing methods for active object detection (AOD) primarily rely on visual appearance of…

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