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Recent object detectors have achieved impressive accuracy in identifying objects seen during training. However, real-world deployment often introduces novel and unexpected objects, referred to as out-of-distribution (OOD) objects, posing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Quang-Huy Nguyen , Jin Peng Zhou , Zhenzhen Liu , Khanh-Huyen Bui , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Wei-Lun Chao , Dung D. Le

The detection of unknown traffic obstacles is vital to ensure safe autonomous driving. The standard object-detection methods cannot identify unknown objects that are not included under predefined categories. This is because object-detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Chihiro Noguchi , Toshiaki Ohgushi , Masao Yamanaka

We address the challenging problem of open world object detection (OWOD), where object detectors must identify objects from known classes while also identifying and continually learning to detect novel objects. Prior work has resulted in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 David Pershouse , Feras Dayoub , Dimity Miller , Niko Sünderhauf

Object detection is a computer vision task that has become an integral part of many consumer applications today such as surveillance and security systems, mobile text recognition, and diagnosing diseases from MRI/CT scans. Object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Abhishek Balasubramaniam , Sudeep Pasricha

Open-World Object Detection (OWOD) enriches traditional object detectors by enabling continual discovery and integration of unknown objects via human guidance. However, existing OWOD approaches frequently suffer from semantic confusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Anay Majee , Amitesh Gangrade , Rishabh Iyer

In the past few years, we have seen great progress in perception algorithms, particular through the use of deep learning. However, most existing approaches focus on a few categories of interest, which represent only a small fraction of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Kelvin Wong , Shenlong Wang , Mengye Ren , Ming Liang , Raquel Urtasun

Bounding-box regression is a popular technique to refine or predict localization boxes in recent object detection approaches. Typically, bounding-box regressors are trained to regress from either region proposals or fixed anchor boxes to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Seungkwan Lee , Suha Kwak , Minsu Cho

Autonomous systems rely on accurate 3D object detection from LiDAR data, yet most detectors are limited to a predefined set of known classes, making them vulnerable to unexpected out-of-distribution (OOD) objects. In this work, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Louis Soum-Fontez , Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud , François Goulette

Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) use natural images and videos as input to understand the real world by overlaying and inferring digital elements, facilitating proactive detection in an effort to assure safety. A crucial aspect of this process is…

Existing 3D object detectors encounter extreme challenges in localizing unseen 3D objects and recognizing them as unseen, which is a crucial technology in autonomous driving in the wild. To address these challenges, we propose practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Hyunjun Choi , Daeho Um , Hawook Jeong

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 aims at detecting objects that are absent in the object classes of the training data as unknown objects without explicit supervision. Furthermore, the exact classes of the unknown objects must be identified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Na Dong , Yongqiang Zhang , Mingli Ding , Gim Hee Lee

Object detection methods trained on a fixed set of known classes struggle to detect objects of unknown classes in the open-world setting. Current fixes involve adding approximate supervision with pseudo-labels corresponding to candidate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Mısra Yavuz , Fatma Güney

Capturing uncertainty in object detection is indispensable for safe autonomous driving. In recent years, deep learning has become the de-facto approach for object detection, and many probabilistic object detectors have been proposed.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Di Feng , Ali Harakeh , Steven Waslander , Klaus Dietmayer

Open-world object detection (OWOD) is a challenging computer vision problem, where the task is to detect a known set of object categories while simultaneously identifying unknown objects. Additionally, the model must incrementally learn new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Akshita Gupta , Sanath Narayan , K J Joseph , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

Conventional camera-based 3D object detectors in autonomous driving are limited to recognizing a predefined set of objects, which poses a safety risk when encountering novel or unseen objects in real-world scenarios. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhuolin He , Xinrun Li , Jiacheng Tang , Shoumeng Qiu , Wenfu Wang , Xiangyang Xue , Jian Pu

Traditional object detection answers two questions; "what" (what the object is?) and "where" (where the object is?). "what" part of the object detection can be fine-grained further i.e. "what type", "what shape" and "what material" etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Addel Zafar , Umar Khalid

Recent efforts in deploying Deep Neural Networks for object detection in real world applications, such as autonomous driving, assume that all relevant object classes have been observed during training. Quantifying the performance of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Yimeng Li , Jana Kosecka

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

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