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We propose LCLA (Language-Conditioned Latent Alignment), a framework for vision-language navigation that learns modular perception-action interfaces by aligning sensory observations to a latent representation of an expert policy. The expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Nitesh Subedi , Adam Haroon , Samuel Tetteh , Prajwal Koirala , Cody Fleming , Soumik Sarkar

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.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Xiangyu Shi , Yanyuan Qiao , Lingqiao Liu , Feras Dayoub

We present DEF-oriCORN, a framework for language-directed manipulation tasks. By leveraging a novel object-based scene representation and diffusion-model-based state estimation algorithm, our framework enables efficient and robust…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Dongwon Son , Sanghyeon Son , Jaehyung Kim , Beomjoon Kim

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

Inspired by the outstanding zero-shot capability of vision language models (VLMs) in image classification tasks, open-vocabulary object detection has attracted increasing interest by distilling the broad VLM knowledge into detector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Sheng Jin , Xueying Jiang , Jiaxing Huang , Lewei Lu , Shijian Lu

We present Region-aware Open-vocabulary Vision Transformers (RO-ViT) - a contrastive image-text pretraining recipe to bridge the gap between image-level pretraining and open-vocabulary object detection. At the pretraining phase, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Dahun Kim , Anelia Angelova , Weicheng Kuo

Dense visual prediction tasks have been constrained by their reliance on predefined categories, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios where visual concepts are unbounded. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Junjie Wang , Bin Chen , Yulin Li , Bin Kang , Yichi Chen , Zhuotao Tian

Existing open-vocabulary object detectors typically enlarge their vocabulary sizes by leveraging different forms of weak supervision. This helps generalize to novel objects at inference. Two popular forms of weak-supervision used in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Hanoona Rasheed , Muhammad Maaz , Muhammad Uzair Khattak , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Object detection traditionally relies on fixed category sets, requiring costly re-training to handle novel objects. While Open-World and Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OWOD and OVOD) improve flexibility, OWOD lacks semantic labels for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Furkan Mumcu , Michael J. Jones , Anoop Cherian , Yasin Yilmaz

Recent research shows a big convergence in model architecture, training objectives, and inference methods across various tasks for different modalities. In this paper, we propose VioLA, a single auto-regressive Transformer decoder-only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Tianrui Wang , Long Zhou , Ziqiang Zhang , Yu Wu , Shujie Liu , Yashesh Gaur , Zhuo Chen , Jinyu Li , Furu Wei

Large foundation models trained on large-scale vision-language data can boost Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVD) via synthetic training data, yet the hand-crafted pipelines often introduce bias and overfit to specific prompts. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yang Zhou , Shiyu Zhao , Yuxiao Chen , Zhenting Wang , Can Jin , Dimitris N. Metaxas

We propose and study open-vocabulary monocular 3D detection, a novel task that aims to detect objects of any categores in metric 3D space from a single RGB image. Existing 3D object detectors either rely on costly sensors such as LiDAR or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Jin Yao , Hao Gu , Xuweiyi Chen , Jiayun Wang , Zezhou Cheng

Current object detectors are limited in vocabulary size due to the small scale of detection datasets. Image classifiers, on the other hand, reason about much larger vocabularies, as their datasets are larger and easier to collect. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Xingyi Zhou , Rohit Girdhar , Armand Joulin , Philipp Krähenbühl , Ishan Misra

Recently, the emergence of the large-scale vision-language model (VLM), such as CLIP, has opened the way towards open-world object perception. Many works have explored the utilization of pre-trained VLM for the challenging open-vocabulary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Youwei Pang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Jiaming Zuo , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

We present DetToolChain, a novel prompting paradigm, to unleash the zero-shot object detection ability of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), such as GPT-4V and Gemini. Our approach consists of a detection prompting toolkit inspired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Yixuan Wu , Yizhou Wang , Shixiang Tang , Wenhao Wu , Tong He , Wanli Ouyang , Philip Torr , Jian Wu

Large-scale pre-trained multi-modal models (e.g., CLIP) demonstrate strong zero-shot transfer capability in many discriminative tasks. Their adaptation to zero-shot image-conditioned text generation tasks has drawn increasing interest.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Wei Li , Linchao Zhu , Longyin Wen , Yi Yang

We investigate the emergence of objects in visual perception in the absence of any semantic annotation. The resulting model has received no supervision, does not use any pre-trained features, and yet it can segment the domain of an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Dong Lao , Zhengyang Hu , Francesco Locatello , Yanchao Yang , Stefano Soatto

Localizing objects in image collections without supervision can help to avoid expensive annotation campaigns. We propose a simple approach to this problem, that leverages the activation features of a vision transformer pre-trained in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Oriane Siméoni , Gilles Puy , Huy V. Vo , Simon Roburin , Spyros Gidaris , Andrei Bursuc , Patrick Pérez , Renaud Marlet , Jean Ponce

Recent progress in large pre-trained vision language models (VLMs) has reached state-of-the-art performance on several object detection benchmarks and boasts strong zero-shot capabilities, but for optimal performance on specific targets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Frank Ruis , Gertjan Burghouts , Hugo Kuijf

While deep learning, including Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs), has significantly advanced classification performance, its typical reliance on extensive annotated datasets presents a major obstacle in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Matheus Vinícius Todescato , Joel Luís Carbonera