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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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Bilal Faye , Hanane Azzag , Mustapha Lebbah

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

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

Despite weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) being a promising step toward evading strong instance-level annotations, its capability is confined to closed-set categories within a single training dataset. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Jianghang Lin , Yunhang Shen , Bingquan Wang , Shaohui Lin , Ke Li , Liujuan Cao

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

Despite great progress in object detection, most existing methods work only on a limited set of object categories, due to the tremendous human effort needed for bounding-box annotations of training data. To alleviate the problem, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Mingfei Gao , Chen Xing , Juan Carlos Niebles , Junnan Li , Ran Xu , Wenhao Liu , Caiming Xiong

Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVOD) aims to develop the capability to detect anything. Although myriads of large-scale pre-training efforts have built versatile foundation models that exhibit impressive zero-shot capabilities to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Guiying Zhu , Bowen Yang , Yin Zhuang , Tong Zhang , Guanqun Wang , Zhihao Che , He Chen , Lianlin Li

Open-vocabulary 3D object detection has recently attracted considerable attention due to its broad applications in autonomous driving and robotics, which aims to effectively recognize novel classes in previously unseen domains. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Rui Huang , Henry Zheng , Yan Wang , Zhuofan Xia , Marco Pavone , Gao Huang

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

Open-vocabulary (OV) 3D object detection is an emerging field, yet its exploration through image-based methods remains limited compared to 3D point cloud-based methods. We introduce OpenM3D, a novel open-vocabulary multi-view indoor 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Peng-Hao Hsu , Ke Zhang , Fu-En Wang , Tao Tu , Ming-Feng Li , Yu-Lun Liu , Albert Y. C. Chen , Min Sun , Cheng-Hao Kuo

In recent years, aerial object detection has been increasingly pivotal in various earth observation applications. However, current algorithms are limited to detecting a set of pre-defined object categories, demanding sufficient annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yan Li , Weiwei Guo , Xue Yang , Ning Liao , Shaofeng Zhang , Yi Yu , Wenxian Yu , Junchi Yan

The advancement of object detection (OD) in open-vocabulary and open-world scenarios is a critical challenge in computer vision. This work introduces OmDet, a novel language-aware object detection architecture, and an innovative training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Tiancheng Zhao , Peng Liu , Kyusong Lee

Open-vocabulary detection (OVD) is an object detection task aiming at detecting objects from novel categories beyond the base categories on which the detector is trained. Recent OVD methods rely on large-scale visual-language pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Xiaoshi Wu , Feng Zhu , Rui Zhao , Hongsheng Li

Open-vocabulary object detection aims to recognize objects from an open set of categories, which leverages vision-language models (VLMs) pre-trained on large-scale image-text data. The cooperative paradigm combines an object detector with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Yazhe Wan , Changjae Oh

Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVOD) aims to enable detectors to generalize across categories by leveraging semantic information. Although existing methods are pretrained on large vision-language datasets, their inference is still…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chujie Wang , Jianyu Lu , Zhiyuan Luo , Xi Chen , Chu He

Open-vocabulary detection (OVD) is a new object detection paradigm, aiming to localize and recognize unseen objects defined by an unbounded vocabulary. This is challenging since traditional detectors can only learn from pre-defined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Jincheng Li , Chunyu Xie , Xiaoyu Wu , Bin Wang , Dawei Leng

Open-Ended object Detection (OED) is a novel and challenging task that detects objects and generates their category names in a free-form manner, without requiring additional vocabularies during inference. However, the existing OED models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Guiping Cao , Tao Wang , Wenjian Huang , Xiangyuan Lan , Jianguo Zhang , Dongmei Jiang

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) has made significant progress, enabling detectors to generalize from seen to unseen categories. However, real-world category spaces continually evolve, and existing OVD models still struggle with newly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yupeng Zhang , Ruize Han , Yuzhong Feng , Zixin Ren , Yuntong Tian , Liang Wan

Despite the remarkable accuracy of deep neural networks in object detection, they are costly to train and scale due to supervision requirements. Particularly, learning more object categories typically requires proportionally more bounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Alireza Zareian , Kevin Dela Rosa , Derek Hao Hu , Shih-Fu Chang

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