English
Related papers

Related papers: Open World Object Detection: A Survey

200 papers

Object detection is a fundamental visual recognition problem in computer vision and has been widely studied in the past decades. Visual object detection aims to find objects of certain target classes with precise localization in a given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Xiongwei Wu , Doyen Sahoo , Steven C. H. Hoi

Because of its use in practice, open-world object detection (OWOD) has gotten a lot of attention recently. The challenge is how can a model detect novel classes and then incrementally learn them without forgetting previously known classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Qian Wan , Xiang Xiang , Qinhao Zhou

Open World Object Detection (OWOD) is a novel and challenging computer vision task that enables object detection with the ability to detect unknown objects. Existing methods typically estimate the object likelihood with an additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yulin He , Wei Chen , Yusong Tan , Siqi Wang

Object detection, one of the most fundamental and challenging problems in computer vision, seeks to locate object instances from a large number of predefined categories in natural images. Deep learning techniques have emerged as a powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Li Liu , Wanli Ouyang , Xiaogang Wang , Paul Fieguth , Jie Chen , Xinwang Liu , Matti Pietikäinen

Object detection is one of the most important and challenging branches of computer vision, which has been widely applied in peoples life, such as monitoring security, autonomous driving and so on, with the purpose of locating instances of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Licheng Jiao , Fan Zhang , Fang Liu , Shuyuan Yang , Lingling Li , Zhixi Feng , Rong Qu

Object detection is a pivotal task in computer vision that has received significant attention in previous years. Nonetheless, the capability of a detector to localise objects out of the training distribution remains unexplored. Whilst…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Brian K. S. Isaac-Medina , Yona Falinie A. Gaus , Neelanjan Bhowmik , Toby P. Breckon

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 World Object Detection (OWOD) is a challenging computer vision task that extends standard object detection by (1) detecting and classifying unknown objects without supervision, and (2) incrementally learning new object classes without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Riku Inoue , Masamitsu Tsuchiya , Yuji Yasui

Substantial progress has been made in various techniques for open-world recognition. Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection methods can effectively distinguish between known and unknown classes in the data, while incremental learning enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xiang Xiang , Qinhao Zhou , Zhuo Xu , Jing Ma , Jiaxin Dai , Yifan Liang , Hanlin Li

Object detection is a crucial task in computer vision that aims to identify and localize objects in images or videos. The recent advancements in deep learning and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have significantly improved the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Hrishitva Patel

Open World Object Detection (OWOD) combines open-set object detection with incremental learning capabilities to handle the challenge of the open and dynamic visual world. Existing works assume that a foreground predictor trained on the seen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Xuanyi Liu , Zhongqi Yue , Xian-Sheng Hua

Conventional open-world object detection (OWOD) problem setting first distinguishes known and unknown classes and then later incrementally learns the unknown objects when introduced with labels in the subsequent tasks. However, the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Sahal Shaji Mullappilly , Abhishek Singh Gehlot , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Hisham Cholakkal

In real-world applications where confidence is key, like autonomous driving, the accurate detection and appropriate handling of classes differing from those used during training are crucial. Despite the proposal of various unknown object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Hejer Ammar , Nikita Kiselov , Guillaume Lapouge , Romaric Audigier

Traditional semi-supervised object detection methods assume a fixed set of object classes (in-distribution or ID classes) during training and deployment, which limits performance in real-world scenarios where unseen classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Garvita Allabadi , Ana Lucic , Siddarth Aananth , Tiffany Yang , Yu-Xiong Wang , Vikram Adve

This paper introduces an innovative approach to open world recognition (OWR), where we leverage knowledge acquired from known objects to address the recognition of previously unseen objects. The traditional method of object modeling relies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Paridhi Singh , Arun Kumar

Oriented object detection is a fundamental yet challenging task in remote sensing (RS), aiming to locate and classify objects with arbitrary orientations. Recent advancements in deep learning have significantly enhanced the capabilities of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Kun Wang , Zi Wang , Zhang Li , Ang Su , Xichao Teng , Erting Pan , Minhao Liu , Qifeng Yu

We tackle the challenging problem of Open-Set Object Detection (OSOD), which aims to detect both known and unknown objects in unlabelled images. The main difficulty arises from the absence of supervision for these unknown classes, making it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Silin Cheng , Yuanpei Liu , Kai Han

State-of-the-art Object Detection (OD) methods predominantly operate under a closed-world assumption, where test-time categories match those encountered during training. However, detecting and localizing unknown objects is crucial for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Daniel Montoya , Aymen Bouguerra , Alexandra Gomez-Villa , Fabio Arnez

In real-world recognition/classification tasks, limited by various objective factors, it is usually difficult to collect training samples to exhaust all classes when training a recognizer or classifier. A more realistic scenario is open set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Chuanxing Geng , Sheng-jun Huang , Songcan Chen

Existing object detectors often struggle to generalize across domains while adapting to emerging novel categories. Adaptive open-set object detection (AOOD) addresses this challenge by training on base categories in the source domain and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yuqi Ji , Junjie Ke , Lihuo He , Lizhi Wang , Xinbo Gao