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Weakly supervised object detection (WSup-OD) increases the usefulness and interpretability of image classification algorithms without requiring additional supervision. The successes of multiple instance learning in this task for natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Philip Müller , Felix Meissen , Georgios Kaissis , Daniel Rueckert

Recent deep learning-based video salient object detection (VSOD) has achieved some breakthrough, but these methods rely on expensive annotated videos with pixel-wise annotations, weak annotations, or part of the pixel-wise annotations. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Binwei Xu , Haoran Liang , Wentian Ni , Weihua Gong , Ronghua Liang , Peng Chen

Weakly-supervised object localization (WSOL) has gained popularity over the last years for its promise to train localization models with only image-level labels. Since the seminal WSOL work of class activation mapping (CAM), the field has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Junsuk Choe , Seong Joon Oh , Seungho Lee , Sanghyuk Chun , Zeynep Akata , Hyunjung Shim

In this work a novel approach for weakly supervised object detection that incorporates pointwise mutual information is presented. A fully convolutional neural network architecture is applied in which the network learns one filter per object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Rene Grzeszick , Sebastian Sudholt , Gernot A. Fink

We present a technique for weakly supervised object localization (WSOL), building on the observation that WSOL algorithms usually work better on images with bigger objects. Instead of training the object detector on the entire training set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-17 Miaojing Shi , Vittorio Ferrari

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) aims to recognize novel objects whose categories are not included in the training set. In order to classify these unseen classes during training, many OVOD frameworks leverage the zero-shot capability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Joonhyun Jeong , Geondo Park , Jayeon Yoo , Hyungsik Jung , Heesu Kim

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation aims to achieve pixel-level predictions using image-level labels. Existing methods typically entangle semantic recognition and object localization, which often leads models to focus exclusively on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Qingze He , Fagui Liu , Dengke Zhang , Qingmao Wei , Quan Tang

Single-Domain Generalized Object Detection~(S-DGOD) aims to train an object detector on a single source domain while generalizing well to diverse unseen target domains, making it suitable for multimedia applications that involve various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Xiaoran Xu , Jiangang Yang , Wenyue Chong , Wenhui Shi , Shichu Sun , Jing Xing , Jian Liu

Few-shot object detection (FSOD) aims to detect never-seen objects using few examples. This field sees recent improvement owing to the meta-learning techniques by learning how to match between the query image and few-shot class examples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Guangxing Han , Yicheng He , Shiyuan Huang , Jiawei Ma , Shih-Fu Chang

An object detector's ability to detect and flag \textit{novel} objects during open-world deployments is critical for many real-world applications. Unfortunately, much of the work in open object detection today is disjointed and fails to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Matthew Inkawhich , Nathan Inkawhich , Hao Yang , Jingyang Zhang , Randolph Linderman , Yiran Chen

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

Despite the remarkable progress in open-vocabulary object detection (OVD), a significant gap remains between the training and testing phases. During training, the RPN and RoI heads often misclassify unlabeled novel-category objects as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yupeng Zhang , Ruize Han , Zhiwei Chen , Wei Feng , Liang Wan

Video Camouflaged Object Detection (VCOD) is a challenging task which aims to identify objects that seamlessly concealed within the background in videos. The dynamic properties of video enable detection of camouflaged objects through motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Shuyong Gao , Yu'ang Feng , Qishan Wang , Lingyi Hong , Xinyu Zhou , Liu Fei , Yan Wang , Wenqiang Zhang

Conventional training of deep neural networks requires a large number of the annotated image which is a laborious and time-consuming task, particularly for rare objects. Few-shot object detection (FSOD) methods offer a remedy by realizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Zeyu Shangguan , Mohammad Rostami

Object detection is a critical field in computer vision focusing on accurately identifying and locating specific objects in images or videos. Traditional methods for object detection rely on large labeled training datasets for each object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Vishal Chudasama , Hiran Sarkar , Pankaj Wasnik , Vineeth N Balasubramanian , Jayateja Kalla

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

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) focuses on localizing objects only with the supervision of image-level classification masks. Most previous WSOL methods follow the classification activation map (CAM) that localizes objects based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Lei Zhu , Qi She , Qian Chen , Yunfei You , Boyu Wang , Yanye Lu

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

We introduce count-guided weakly supervised localization (C-WSL), an approach that uses per-class object count as a new form of supervision to improve weakly supervised localization (WSL). C-WSL uses a simple count-based region selection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Mingfei Gao , Ang Li , Ruichi Yu , Vlad I. Morariu , Larry S. Davis

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