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Open World Object Detection (OWOD), simulating the real dynamic world where knowledge grows continuously, attempts to detect both known and unknown classes and incrementally learn the identified unknown ones. We find that although the only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Xiaowei Zhao , Xianglong Liu , Yifan Shen , Yixuan Qiao , Yuqing Ma , Duorui 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…

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

This work tackles the unsupervised cross-domain object detection problem which aims to generalize a pre-trained object detector to a new target domain without labels. We propose an uncertainty-aware model adaptation method, which is based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Minjie Cai , Minyi Luo , Xionghu Zhong , Hao Chen

Open-World Object Detection (OWOD) enriches traditional object detectors by enabling continual discovery and integration of unknown objects via human guidance. However, existing OWOD approaches frequently suffer from semantic confusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Anay Majee , Amitesh Gangrade , Rishabh Iyer

We address the challenging problem of open world object detection (OWOD), where object detectors must identify objects from known classes while also identifying and continually learning to detect novel objects. Prior work has resulted in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 David Pershouse , Feras Dayoub , Dimity Miller , Niko Sünderhauf

Unsupervised object discovery is commonly interpreted as the task of localizing and/or categorizing objects in visual data without the need for labeled examples. While current object recognition methods have proven highly effective for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 José-Fabian Villa-Vásquez , Marco Pedersoli

Semi-supervised object detection (SSOD), leveraging unlabeled data to boost object detectors, has become a hot topic recently. However, existing SSOD approaches mainly focus on horizontal objects, leaving oriented objects common in aerial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Dingkang Liang , Wei Hua , Chunsheng Shi , Zhikang Zou , Xiaoqing Ye , Xiang Bai

Exploring new knowledge is a fundamental human ability that can be mirrored in the development of deep neural networks, especially in the field of object detection. Open world object detection (OWOD) is an emerging area of research that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yiming Li , Yi Wang , Wenqian Wang , Dan Lin , Bingbing Li , Kim-Hui Yap

Open-set object detection (OSOD), a task involving the detection of unknown objects while accurately detecting known objects, has recently gained attention. However, we identify a fundamental issue with the problem formulation employed in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yusuke Hosoya , Masanori Suganuma , Takayuki Okatani

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

Despite the importance of unsupervised object detection, to the best of our knowledge, there is no previous work addressing this problem. One main issue, widely known to the community, is that object boundaries derived only from 2D image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Hao Tian , Yuntao Chen , Jifeng Dai , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Xizhou Zhu

This paper introduces an innovative approach to open world recognition (OWR), where we leverage knowledge acquired from known objects to address the recognition of previously unseen objects. The traditional method of object modeling relies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Paridhi Singh , Arun Kumar

Semi-Supervised Object Detection (SSOD), aiming to explore unlabeled data for boosting object detectors, has become an active task in recent years. However, existing SSOD approaches mainly focus on horizontal objects, leaving multi-oriented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Wei Hua , Dingkang Liang , Jingyu Li , Xiaolong Liu , Zhikang Zou , Xiaoqing Ye , Xiang Bai

Building robust and generic object detection frameworks requires scaling to larger label spaces and bigger training datasets. However, it is prohibitively costly to acquire annotations for thousands of categories at a large scale. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Shiyu Zhao , Zhixing Zhang , Samuel Schulter , Long Zhao , Vijay Kumar B. G , Anastasis Stathopoulos , Manmohan Chandraker , Dimitris Metaxas

Autonomous systems rely on accurate 3D object detection from LiDAR data, yet most detectors are limited to a predefined set of known classes, making them vulnerable to unexpected out-of-distribution (OOD) objects. In this work, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Louis Soum-Fontez , Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud , François Goulette

Recent advances in semi-supervised object detection (SSOD) are largely driven by consistency-based pseudo-labeling methods for image classification tasks, producing pseudo labels as supervisory signals. However, when using pseudo labels,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Hengduo Li , Zuxuan Wu , Abhinav Shrivastava , Larry S. Davis

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

Modern object detectors have achieved impressive progress under the close-set setup. However, open-set object detection (OSOD) remains challenging since objects of unknown categories are often misclassified to existing known classes. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Jiaming Han , Yuqiang Ren , Jian Ding , Xingjia Pan , Ke Yan , Gui-Song Xia

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

Annotating remote sensing images (RSIs) presents a notable challenge due to its labor-intensive nature. Semi-supervised object detection (SSOD) methods tackle this issue by generating pseudo-labels for the unlabeled data, assuming that all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Nanqing Liu , Xun Xu , Yingjie Gao , Heng-Chao Li