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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 video instance segmentation strives to segment and track instances belonging to an open set of categories in a videos. The vision-language model Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has shown robust zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Wenqi Zhu , Jiale Cao , Jin Xie , Shuangming Yang , Yanwei Pang

Dense visual prediction tasks have been constrained by their reliance on predefined categories, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios where visual concepts are unbounded. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Junjie Wang , Bin Chen , Yulin Li , Bin Kang , Yichi Chen , Zhuotao Tian

Open-vocabulary detection (OVD) aims to detect novel objects without instance-level annotations to achieve open-world object detection at a lower cost. Existing OVD methods mainly rely on the powerful open-vocabulary image-text alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zishuo Wang , Wenhao Zhou , Jinglin Xu , Yuxin Peng

Recent open-vocabulary detectors achieve promising performance with abundant region-level annotated data. In this work, we show that an open-vocabulary detector co-training with a large language model by generating image-level detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Shenghao Fu , Qize Yang , Qijie Mo , Junkai Yan , Xihan Wei , Jingke Meng , Xiaohua Xie , Wei-Shi Zheng

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

Existing methods enhance open-vocabulary object detection by leveraging the robust open-vocabulary recognition capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP.However, two main challenges emerge:(1) A deficiency in concept…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Penghui Du , Yu Wang , Yifan Sun , Luting Wang , Yue Liao , Gang Zhang , Errui Ding , Yan Wang , Jingdong Wang , Si Liu

In this paper, we consider the problem of simultaneously detecting objects and inferring their visual attributes in an image, even for those with no manual annotations provided at the training stage, resembling an open-vocabulary scenario.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Keyan Chen , Xiaolong Jiang , Yao Hu , Xu Tang , Yan Gao , Jianqi Chen , Weidi Xie

Dense visual perception tasks have been constrained by their reliance on predefined categories, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios where visual concepts are unbounded. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Junjie Wang , Keyu Chen , Yulin Li , Bin Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Xiaojuan Qi , Zhuotao Tian

Pretrained vision-language models, such as CLIP, show promising zero-shot performance across a wide variety of datasets. For closed-set classification tasks, however, there is an inherent limitation: CLIP image encoders are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Piyapat Saranrittichai , Mauricio Munoz , Volker Fischer , Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi

Open-vocabulary dense prediction tasks including object detection and image segmentation have been advanced by the success of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP). CLIP models, particularly those incorporating vision transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Size Wu , Wenwei Zhang , Lumin Xu , Sheng Jin , Xiangtai Li , Wentao Liu , Chen Change Loy

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

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

Combining simple architectures with large-scale pre-training has led to massive improvements in image classification. For object detection, pre-training and scaling approaches are less well established, especially in the long-tailed and…

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have demonstrated impressive zero-shot recognition capability, but still underperform in dense prediction tasks. Self-distillation recently is emerging as a promising approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Yunheng Li , Yuxuan Li , Quansheng Zeng , Wenhai Wang , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng

Detecting objects accurately from a large or open vocabulary necessitates the vision-language alignment on region representations. However, learning such a region-text alignment by obtaining high-quality box annotations with text labels or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Size Wu , Wenwei Zhang , Lumin Xu , Sheng Jin , Wentao Liu , Chen Change Loy

Open-vocabulary 3D object detection (OV-3DDet) aims to localize and recognize both seen and previously unseen object categories within any new 3D scene. While language and vision foundation models have achieved success in handling various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Pengkun Jiao , Na Zhao , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

Pre-trained vision-language models, e.g. CLIP, have been increasingly used to address the challenging Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) task, benefiting from their well-aligned vision-text embedding space. Typical solutions involve either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Siyu Jiao , Hongguang Zhu , Jiannan Huang , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei , Humphrey Shi

Recently, vision-language pre-training shows great potential in open-vocabulary object detection, where detectors trained on base classes are devised for detecting new classes. The class text embedding is firstly generated by feeding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yu Du , Fangyun Wei , Zihe Zhang , Miaojing Shi , Yue Gao , Guoqi Li

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