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Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is critical to ensuring the reliability and safety of machine learning systems. For instance, in autonomous driving, we would like the driving system to issue an alert and hand over the control to humans…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Jingkang Yang , Kaiyang Zhou , Yixuan Li , Ziwei Liu

Recent advancements in 3D object detection and novel category detection have made significant progress, yet research on learning generalized 3D objectness remains insufficient. In this paper, we delve into learning open-world 3D objectness,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Taichi Liu , Zhenyu Wang , Ruofeng Liu , Guang Wang , Desheng Zhang

Unsupervised object discovery is commonly interpreted as the task of localizing and/or categorizing objects in visual data without the need for labeled examples. While current object recognition methods have proven highly effective for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 José-Fabian Villa-Vásquez , Marco Pedersoli

Deep learning (DL) based object detection has achieved great progress. These methods typically assume that large amount of labeled training data is available, and training and test data are drawn from an identical distribution. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Wanyi Li , Fuyu Li , Yongkang Luo , Peng Wang , Jia sun

Object detection traditionally relies on fixed category sets, requiring costly re-training to handle novel objects. While Open-World and Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OWOD and OVOD) improve flexibility, OWOD lacks semantic labels for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Furkan Mumcu , Michael J. Jones , Anoop Cherian , Yasin Yilmaz

In this work, we tackle the problem of Open World Object Detection (OWOD). This challenging scenario requires the detector to incrementally learn to classify known objects without forgetting while identifying unknown objects without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jun-Woo Heo , Keonhee Park , Gyeong-Moon Park

We present Deeply Supervised Object Detector (DSOD), a framework that can learn object detectors from scratch. State-of-the-art object objectors rely heavily on the off-the-shelf networks pre-trained on large-scale classification datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Zhiqiang Shen , Zhuang Liu , Jianguo Li , Yu-Gang Jiang , Yurong Chen , Xiangyang Xue

In open-world learning, an agent starts with a set of known classes, detects, and manages things that it does not know, and learns them over time from a non-stationary stream of data. Open-world learning is related to but also distinct from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Mohsen Jafarzadeh , Akshay Raj Dhamija , Steve Cruz , Chunchun Li , Touqeer Ahmad , Terrance E. Boult

The thesis contributes in several important ways to the research area of 3D object category learning and recognition. To cope with the mentioned limitations, we look at human cognition, in particular at the fact that human beings learn to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-23 S. Hamidreza Kasaei

The field of Continual Learning investigates the ability to learn consecutive tasks without losing performance on those previously learned. Its focus has been mainly on incremental classification tasks. We believe that research in continual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Angelo G. Menezes , Gustavo de Moura , Cézanne Alves , André C. P. L. F. de Carvalho

Object detection is a critical field in computer vision focusing on accurately identifying and locating specific objects in images or videos. Traditional methods for object detection rely on large labeled training datasets for each object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Vishal Chudasama , Hiran Sarkar , Pankaj Wasnik , Vineeth N Balasubramanian , Jayateja Kalla

Open-Set Object Detection (OSOD) is crucial for autonomous driving, where perception systems must recognize and localize both known and previously unseen objects in complex, dynamic environments. While recent approaches deliver promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yuchen Zhang , Yao Lu , Johannes Betz

In the field of visual scene understanding, deep neural networks have made impressive advancements in various core tasks like segmentation, tracking, and detection. However, most approaches operate on the close-set assumption, meaning that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Jianzong Wu , Xiangtai Li , Shilin Xu , Haobo Yuan , Henghui Ding , Yibo Yang , Xia Li , Jiangning Zhang , Yunhai Tong , Xudong Jiang , Bernard Ghanem , Dacheng Tao

Unknown Object Detection (UOD) aims to identify objects of unseen categories, differing from the traditional detection paradigm limited by the closed-world assumption. A key component of UOD is learning a generalized representation, i.e.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Haomiao Liu , Hao Xu , Chuhuai Yue , Bo Ma

As the most fundamental scene understanding tasks, object detection and segmentation have made tremendous progress in deep learning era. Due to the expensive manual labeling cost, the annotated categories in existing datasets are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Chaoyang Zhu , Long Chen

As AI agents are increasingly used in the real open world with unknowns or novelties, they need the ability to (1) recognize objects that (a) they have learned before and (b) detect items that they have never seen or learned, and (2) learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Gyuhak Kim , Changnan Xiao , Tatsuya Konishi , Zixuan Ke , Bing Liu

With the of advent rich classification models and high computational power visual recognition systems have found many operational applications. Recognition in the real world poses multiple challenges that are not apparent in controlled lab…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Abhijit Bendale , Terrance Boult

Many open-world applications require the detection of novel objects, yet state-of-the-art object detection and instance segmentation networks do not excel at this task. The key issue lies in their assumption that regions without any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Kuniaki Saito , Ping Hu , Trevor Darrell , Kate Saenko

A desirable open world recognition (OWR) system requires performing three tasks: (1) Open set recognition (OSR), i.e., classifying the known (classes seen during training) and rejecting the unknown (unseen$/$novel classes) online; (2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Fulin Gao , Weimin Zhong , Zhixing Cao , Xin Peng , Zhi Li

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for ensuring the reliability of deep learning models. Existing methods mostly focus on regular entangled representations to discriminate in-distribution (ID) and OOD data, neglecting the rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Boyang Dai , Chaoqi Chen , Yizhou Yu