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3D object detection plays a crucial role in autonomous systems, yet existing methods are limited by closed-set assumptions and struggle to recognize novel objects and their attributes in real-world scenarios. We propose OVODA, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Xinhao Xiang , Kuan-Chuan Peng , Suhas Lohit , Michael J. Jones , Jiawei Zhang

Most object detectors operate under a closed-world assumption, recognizing only the classes annotated in the training dataset and failing when encountering novel objects. Open-World Object Detection (OWOD) relaxes this assumption by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yuchen Zhang , Yao Lu , Johannes Betz

In this paper, we for the first time explore helpful multi-modal contextual knowledge to understand novel categories for open-vocabulary object detection (OVD). The multi-modal contextual knowledge stands for the joint relationship across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Yifan Xu , Mengdan Zhang , Xiaoshan Yang , Changsheng Xu

Our work addresses the problem of learning to localize objects in an open-world setting, i.e., given the bounding box information of a limited number of object classes during training, the goal is to localize all objects, belonging to both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Ashish Singh , Michael J. Jones , Kuan-Chuan Peng , Anoop Cherian , Moitreya Chatterjee , Erik Learned-Miller

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) aims to recognize and localize object categories beyond the training set. Recent approaches leverage vision-language models to generate pseudo-labels using image-text alignment, allowing detectors to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Hojun Choi , Youngsun Lim , Jaeyo Shin , Hyunjung Shim

In this paper, we attempt to specialize the VLM model for OWOD tasks by distilling its open-world knowledge into a language-agnostic detector. Surprisingly, we observe that the combination of a simple \textbf{knowledge distillation}…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Shuailei Ma , Yuefeng Wang , Ying Wei , Jiaqi Fan , Enming Zhang , Xinyu Sun , Peihao Chen

In this work, we tackle the limitations of current LiDAR-based 3D object detection systems, which are hindered by a restricted class vocabulary and the high costs associated with annotating new object classes. Our exploration of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Djamahl Etchegaray , Zi Huang , Tatsuya Harada , Yadan Luo

Existing open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) develops methods for testing unseen categories by aligning object region embeddings with corresponding VLM features. A recent study leverages the idea that VLMs implicitly learn compositional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Hojun Choi , Junsuk Choe , Hyunjung Shim

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) models are considered to be Large Multi-modal Models (LMM), due to their extensive training data and a large number of parameters. Mainstream OVD models prioritize object coarse-grained category rather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yuqi Ma , Mengyin Liu , Chao Zhu , Xu-Cheng Yin

Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVOD) aims to detect novel objects beyond a given set of base categories on which the detection model is trained. Recent OVOD methods focus on adapting the image-level pre-trained vision-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Ruohuan Fang , Guansong Pang , Xiao Bai

In recent years, open-vocabulary (OV) object detection has attracted increasing research attention. Unlike traditional detection, which only recognizes fixed-category objects, OV detection aims to detect objects in an open category set.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Hengcan Shi , Munawar Hayat , Jianfei Cai

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

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

Open-vocabulary detection (OVD) is a challenging task to detect and classify objects from an unrestricted set of categories, including those unseen during training. Existing open-vocabulary detectors are limited by complex visual-textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Caixiong Li , Xiongwei Zhao , Jinhang Zhang , Xing Zhang , Qihao Sun , Zhou Wu

Open-Vocabulary Detection (OVD) is the task of detecting all interesting objects in a given scene without predefined object classes. Extensive work has been done to deal with the OVD for 2D RGB images, but the exploration of 3D OVD is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Xingyu Peng , Yan Bai , Chen Gao , Lirong Yang , Fei Xia , Beipeng Mu , Xiaofei Wang , Si Liu

Conventional object detectors typically operate under a closed-set assumption, limiting recognition to a predefined set of base classes seen during training. Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) addresses this limitation by leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Sanghoon Lee , Geon Lee , Hyekang Park , Bumsub Ham

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

The task of LiDAR-based 3D Open-Vocabulary Detection (3D OVD) requires the detector to learn to detect novel objects from point clouds without off-the-shelf training labels. Previous methods focus on the learning of object-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Xingyu Peng , Si Liu , Chen Gao , Yan Bai , Beipeng Mu , Xiaofei Wang , Huaxia Xia

Open-vocabulary detectors are proposed to locate and recognize objects in novel classes. However, variations in vision-aware language vocabulary data used for open-vocabulary learning can lead to unfair and unreliable evaluations. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Ying Liu , Yijing Hua , Haojiang Chai , Yanbo Wang , TengQi Ye

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