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Existing object detection methods are bounded in a fixed-set vocabulary by costly labeled data. When dealing with novel categories, the model has to be retrained with more bounding box annotations. Natural language supervision is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Chuang Lin , Peize Sun , Yi Jiang , Ping Luo , Lizhen Qu , Gholamreza Haffari , Zehuan Yuan , Jianfei Cai

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) enables models to recognize objects beyond predefined categories, but existing approaches remain limited in practical deployment. On the one hand, multimodal designs often incur substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Siheng Wang , Yanshu Li , Bohan Hu , Zhengdao Li , Haibo Zhan , Linshan Li , Weiming Liu , Ruizhi Qian , Guangxin Wu , Hao Zhang , Jifeng Shen , Piotr Koniusz , Zhengtao Yao , Junhao Dong , Qiang Sun

Self-supervised vision-and-language pretraining (VLP) aims to learn transferable multi-modal representations from large-scale image-text data and to achieve strong performances on a broad scope of vision-language tasks after finetuning.…

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Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation (OVSS) has advanced with recent vision-language models (VLMs), enabling segmentation beyond predefined categories through various learning schemes. Notably, training-free methods offer scalable, easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Chanyoung Kim , Dayun Ju , Woojung Han , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Seong Jae Hwang

Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVOD) aims to detect novel objects beyond a given set of base categories on which the detection model is trained. Recent OVOD methods focus on adapting the image-level pre-trained vision-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Ruohuan Fang , Guansong Pang , Xiao Bai

In pursuit of detecting unstinted objects that extend beyond predefined categories, prior arts of open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) typically resort to pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) for base-to-novel category generalization.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Chuhan Zhang , Chaoyang Zhu , Pingcheng Dong , Long Chen , Dong Zhang

Traditional object detection systems are typically constrained to predefined categories, limiting their applicability in dynamic environments. In contrast, open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) enables the identification of objects from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Tianyi Zhang , Antoine Simoulin , Kai Li , Sana Lakdawala , Shiqing Yu , Arpit Mittal , Hongyu Fu , Yu Lin

Existing open-vocabulary detectors focus on RGB images and fail to generalize to thermal imagery, where low texture and emissivity variations challenge RGB-based semantics. We present Thermal-Det, the first large language model (LLM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yasiru Ranasinghe , Elim Schenck , Florence Yellin , Shuowen Hu , Christopher Funk , Vishal M. Patel

Open-vocabulary object detection aims to provide object detectors trained on a fixed set of object categories with the generalizability to detect objects described by arbitrary text queries. Previous methods adopt knowledge distillation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Luting Wang , Yi Liu , Penghui Du , Zihan Ding , Yue Liao , Qiaosong Qi , Biaolong Chen , Si Liu

Recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) exhibit strong zero-shot abilities but struggle with complex Grounded Situation Recognition (GSR) and are resource-intensive for edge device deployment. Meanwhile, conventional GSR models…

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Object detection is an important task in computer vision, which aims to detect the objects of interest. through the given category list or query images. In this work, we propose a new problem of language-visual-complementary open-set object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yupeng Zhang , Ruize Han , Wei Feng , Song Wang , Liang Wan

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-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

Referring camouflaged object detection (Ref-COD) is a recently-proposed problem aiming to segment out specified camouflaged objects matched with a textual or visual reference. This task involves two major challenges: the COD domain-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Shupeng Cheng , Ge-Peng Ji , Pengda Qin , Deng-Ping Fan , Bowen Zhou , Peng Xu

Multimodal supervision has achieved promising results in many visual language understanding tasks, where the language plays an essential role as a hint or context for recognizing and locating instances. However, due to the defects of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Weixin Feng , Xingyuan Bu , Chenchen Zhang , Xubin Li

Deriving reliable region-word alignment from image-text pairs is critical to learn object-level vision-language representations for open-vocabulary object detection. Existing methods typically rely on pre-trained or self-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Chuofan Ma , Yi Jiang , Xin Wen , Zehuan Yuan , Xiaojuan Qi

Recent open-vocabulary detectors achieve promising performance with abundant region-level annotated data. In this work, we show that an open-vocabulary detector co-training with a large language model by generating image-level detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Shenghao Fu , Qize Yang , Qijie Mo , Junkai Yan , Xihan Wei , Jingke Meng , Xiaohua Xie , Wei-Shi Zheng

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD), detecting specific classes of objects using only their linguistic descriptions (e.g., class names) without any image samples, has garnered significant attention. However, in real-world applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yusuke Hosoya , Masanori Suganuma , Takayuki Okatani

Open-vocabulary object detection aims to detect novel object categories beyond the training set. The advanced open-vocabulary two-stage detectors employ instance-level visual-to-visual knowledge distillation to align the visual space of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Zongyang Ma , Guan Luo , Jin Gao , Liang Li , Yuxin Chen , Shaoru Wang , Congxuan Zhang , Weiming Hu

Open-vocabulary video visual relationship detection aims to expand video visual relationship detection beyond annotated categories by detecting unseen relationships between both seen and unseen objects in videos. Existing methods usually…

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