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Point cloud-based open-vocabulary 3D object detection aims to detect 3D categories that do not have ground-truth annotations in the training set. It is extremely challenging because of the limited data and annotations (bounding boxes with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Chenming Zhu , Wenwei Zhang , Tai Wang , Xihui Liu , Kai Chen

The goal of open-vocabulary detection is to identify novel objects based on arbitrary textual descriptions. In this paper, we address open-vocabulary 3D point-cloud detection by a dividing-and-conquering strategy, which involves: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Yuheng Lu , Chenfeng Xu , Xiaobao Wei , Xiaodong Xie , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Kurt Keutzer , Shanghang Zhang

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) aims to detect known and unknown objects in the open world by leveraging text prompts. Benefiting from the emergence of large-scale vision--language pre-trained models, OVOD has demonstrated strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Jiaming Liang , Yifeng Zhan , Chunlin Liu , Weihua Zheng , Bingye Peng , Qiwei Liang , Boyang Cai , Xiaochun Mai , Qiang Nie

Locating and retrieving objects from scene-level point clouds is a challenging problem with broad applications in robotics and augmented reality. This task is commonly formulated as open-vocabulary 3D instance segmentation. Although recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Khanh Nguyen , Dasith de Silva Edirimuni , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Ajmal Mian

Traditional object detection systems are typically constrained to predefined categories, limiting their applicability in dynamic environments. In contrast, open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) enables the identification of objects from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Tianyi Zhang , Antoine Simoulin , Kai Li , Sana Lakdawala , Shiqing Yu , Arpit Mittal , Hongyu Fu , Yu Lin

An increasingly massive number of remote-sensing images spurs the development of extensible object detectors that can detect objects beyond training categories without costly collecting new labeled data. In this paper, we aim to develop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yan Li , Weiwei Guo , Xue Yang , Ning Liao , Dunyun He , Jiaqi Zhou , Wenxian Yu

To identify objects beyond predefined categories, open-vocabulary aerial object detection (OVAD) leverages the zero-shot capabilities of visual-language models (VLMs) to generalize from base to novel categories. Existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jianhang Yao , Yongbin Zheng , Siqi Lu , Wanying Xu , Peng Sun

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

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

Existing object detection methods are bounded in a fixed-set vocabulary by costly labeled data. When dealing with novel categories, the model has to be retrained with more bounding box annotations. Natural language supervision is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Chuang Lin , Peize Sun , Yi Jiang , Ping Luo , Lizhen Qu , Gholamreza Haffari , Zehuan Yuan , Jianfei Cai

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

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

Detecting objects based on language information is a popular task that includes Open-Vocabulary object Detection (OVD) and Referring Expression Comprehension (REC). In this paper, we advance them to a more practical setting called Described…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Chi Xie , Zhao Zhang , Yixuan Wu , Feng Zhu , Rui Zhao , Shuang Liang

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

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 studies typically investigate domain shift and category shift as independent problems, however, in real-world scenarios, the two types of shifts often occur simultaneously and interact, leading to significant degradation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yupeng Zhang , Ruize Han , Fangnan Zhou , Wei Feng , Liang Wan

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

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

3D object detection has achieved significant performance in many fields, e.g., robotics system, autonomous driving, and augmented reality. However, most existing methods could cause catastrophic forgetting of old classes when performing on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Wenqi Liang , Gan Sun , Chenxi Liu , Jiahua Dong , Kangru Wang

Traditional object detection methods operate under the closed-set assumption, where models can only detect a fixed number of objects predefined in the training set. Recent works on open vocabulary object detection (OVD) enable the detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zizhao Li , Zhengkang Xiang , Joseph West , Kourosh Khoshelham