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Unsupervised object discovery (UOD) refers to the task of discriminating the whole region of objects from the background within a scene without relying on labeled datasets, which benefits the task of bounding-box-level localization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Yunqiu Lv , Jing Zhang , Nick Barnes , Yuchao Dai

Object discovery is a core task in computer vision. While fast progresses have been made in supervised object detection, its unsupervised counterpart remains largely unexplored. With the growth of data volume, the expensive cost of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yuqi Wang , Yuntao Chen , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Passive methods for object detection and segmentation treat images of the same scene as individual samples and do not exploit object permanence across multiple views. Generalization to novel or difficult viewpoints thus requires additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Zhaoyuan Fang , Ayush Jain , Gabriel Sarch , Adam W. Harley , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Current 3D object detection models follow a single dataset-specific training and testing paradigm, which often faces a serious detection accuracy drop when they are directly deployed in another dataset. In this paper, we study the task of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Bo Zhang , Jiakang Yuan , Botian Shi , Tao Chen , Yikang Li , Yu Qiao

Existing LiDAR-based 3D object detectors typically rely on manually annotated labels for training to achieve good performance. However, obtaining high-quality 3D labels is time-consuming and labor-intensive. To address this issue, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Mingqian Ji , Jian Yang , Shanshan Zhang

Unsupervised object modeling is important in robotics, especially for handling a large set of objects. We present a method for unsupervised 3D object discovery, reconstruction, and localization that exploits multiple instances of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Wim Abbeloos , Esra Ataer-Cansizoglu , Sergio Caccamo , Yuichi Taguchi , Yukiyasu Domae

Monocular 3D object detection plays a crucial role in autonomous driving. However, existing monocular 3D detection algorithms depend on 3D labels derived from LiDAR measurements, which are costly to acquire for new datasets and challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Fulong Ma , Xiaoyang Yan , Guoyang Zhao , Xiaojie Xu , Yuxuan Liu , Jun Ma , Ming Liu

3D object detection is an important yet demanding task that heavily relies on difficult to obtain 3D annotations. To reduce the required amount of supervision, we propose 3DIoUMatch, a novel semi-supervised method for 3D object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 He Wang , Yezhen Cong , Or Litany , Yue Gao , Leonidas J. Guibas

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

In this paper, we study the problem of unsupervised object detection from 3D point clouds in self-driving scenes. We present a simple yet effective method that exploits (i) point clustering in near-range areas where the point clouds are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Lunjun Zhang , Anqi Joyce Yang , Yuwen Xiong , Sergio Casas , Bin Yang , Mengye Ren , Raquel Urtasun

Growing customer demand for smart solutions in robotics and augmented reality has attracted considerable attention to 3D object detection from point clouds. Yet, existing indoor datasets taken individually are too small and insufficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Maksim Kolodiazhnyi , Anna Vorontsova , Matvey Skripkin , Danila Rukhovich , Anton Konushin

Unsupervised domain adaptation for LiDAR-based 3D object detection (3D UDA) based on the teacher-student architecture with pseudo labels has achieved notable improvements in recent years. Although it is quite popular to collect point clouds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Shenao Zhao , Pengpeng Liang , Zhoufan Yang

In this paper, we propose a novel training strategy called SupFusion, which provides an auxiliary feature level supervision for effective LiDAR-Camera fusion and significantly boosts detection performance. Our strategy involves a data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Yiran Qin , Chaoqun Wang , Zijian Kang , Ningning Ma , Zhen Li , Ruimao Zhang

Existing approaches to unsupervised object discovery (UOD) do not scale up to large datasets without approximations that compromise their performance. We propose a novel formulation of UOD as a ranking problem, amenable to the arsenal of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Huy V. Vo , Elena Sizikova , Cordelia Schmid , Patrick Pérez , Jean Ponce

To ensure safe urban driving for autonomous platforms, it is crucial not only to develop high-performance object detection techniques but also to establish a diverse and representative dataset that captures various urban environments and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Jin-Hee Lee , Jae-Keun Lee , Je-Seok Kim , Soon Kwon

The unsupervised pretraining of object detectors has recently become a key component of object detector training, as it leads to improved performance and faster convergence during the supervised fine-tuning stage. Existing unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Ioannis Maniadis Metaxas , Adrian Bulat , Ioannis Patras , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Unsupervised object discovery, the task of identifying and localizing objects in images without human-annotated labels, remains a significant challenge and a growing focus in computer vision. In this work, we introduce a novel model, DADO…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Federico Gonzalez , Estefania Talavera , Petia Radeva

Object detection methods have witnessed impressive improvements in the last years thanks to the design of novel neural network architectures and the availability of large scale datasets. However, current methods have a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Dario Fontanel , Matteo Tarantino , Fabio Cermelli , Barbara Caputo

We present an unsupervised framework for simultaneous appearance-based object discovery, detection, tracking and reconstruction using RGBD cameras and a robot manipulator. The system performs dense 3D simultaneous localization and mapping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-11-05 Lu Ma , Mahsa Ghafarianzadeh , Dave Coleman , Nikolaus Correll , Gabe Sibley

We propose an unsupervised method for detecting and tracking moving objects in 3D, in unlabelled RGB-D videos. The method begins with classic handcrafted techniques for segmenting objects using motion cues: we estimate optical flow and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Adam W. Harley , Yiming Zuo , Jing Wen , Ayush Mangal , Shubhankar Potdar , Ritwick Chaudhry , Katerina Fragkiadaki