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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

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 (OV-3DOD) aims at localizing and classifying novel objects beyond closed sets. The recent success of vision-language models (VLMs) has demonstrated their remarkable capabilities to understand open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Youjun Zhao , Jiaying Lin , Rynson W. H. Lau

Event cameras offer advantages in object detection tasks due to high-speed response, low latency, and robustness to motion blur. However, event cameras lack texture and color information, making open-vocabulary detection particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jinchang Zhang , Zijun Li , Jiakai Lin , Guoyu Lu

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

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) aims to detect the objects beyond the set of classes observed during training. This work introduces a straightforward and efficient strategy that utilizes pre-trained vision-language models (VLM),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Shilin Xu , Xiangtai Li , Size Wu , Wenwei Zhang , Yunhai Tong , Chen Change Loy

This paper presents a novel training-free framework for open-vocabulary image segmentation and object recognition (OVSR), which leverages EfficientNetB0, a convolutional neural network, for unsupervised segmentation and CLIP, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ying Dai , Wei Yu Chen

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD), detecting specific classes of objects using only their linguistic descriptions (e.g., class names) without any image samples, has garnered significant attention. However, in real-world applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yusuke Hosoya , Masanori Suganuma , Takayuki Okatani

In this paper, we for the first time explore helpful multi-modal contextual knowledge to understand novel categories for open-vocabulary object detection (OVD). The multi-modal contextual knowledge stands for the joint relationship across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Yifan Xu , Mengdan Zhang , Xiaoshan Yang , Changsheng Xu

The recent years have witnessed the remarkable development for open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) using visual-language foundation models, yet still suffer from following fundamental challenges: (1) insufficient cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jing Wang , Huimin Shi , Quan Zhou , Qibo Liu , Suofei Zhang , Huimin Lu

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) aims to scale up vocabulary size to detect objects of novel categories beyond the training vocabulary. Recent work resorts to the rich knowledge in pre-trained vision-language models. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Peixian Chen , Kekai Sheng , Mengdan Zhang , Mingbao Lin , Yunhang Shen , Shaohui Lin , Bo Ren , Ke Li

Knowledge distillation can lead to deploy-friendly networks against the plagued computational complexity problem, but previous methods neglect the feature hierarchy in detectors. Motivated by this, we propose a general framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Yangyang Qin , Hefei Ling , Zhenghai He , Yuxuan Shi , Lei Wu

Prompt-OVD is an efficient and effective framework for open-vocabulary object detection that utilizes class embeddings from CLIP as prompts, guiding the Transformer decoder to detect objects in both base and novel classes. Additionally, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Hwanjun Song , Jihwan Bang

Open-vocabulary segmentation of 3D scenes is a fundamental function of human perception and thus a crucial objective in computer vision research. However, this task is heavily impeded by the lack of large-scale and diverse 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Kunhao Liu , Fangneng Zhan , Jiahui Zhang , Muyu Xu , Yingchen Yu , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik , Christian Theobalt , Eric Xing , Shijian Lu

Training large neural networks on large-scale datasets requires substantial computational resources, particularly for dense prediction tasks such as object detection. Although dataset distillation (DD) has been proposed to alleviate these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Salwa K. Al Khatib , Ahmed ElHagry , Shitong Shao , Zhiqiang Shen

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective method for compressing models in object detection tasks. Due to limited computational capability, UAV-based object detection (UAV-OD) widely adopt the KD technique to obtain lightweight detectors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Liang Yao , Fan Liu , Chuanyi Zhang , Zhiquan Ou , Ting Wu

Large-vocabulary object detectors (LVDs) aim to detect objects of many categories, which learn super objectness features and can locate objects accurately while applied to various downstream data. However, LVDs often struggle in recognizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Kai Jiang , Jiaxing Huang , Weiying Xie , Jie Lei , Yunsong Li , Ling Shao , Shijian Lu

Fine-grained open-vocabulary object detection (FG-OVD) aims to detect novel object categories described by attribute-rich texts. While existing open-vocabulary detectors show promise at the base-category level, they underperform in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jiaming Li , Zhijia Liang , Weikai Chen , Lin Ma , Guanbin Li

3D object detection plays a crucial role in autonomous systems, yet existing methods are limited by closed-set assumptions and struggle to recognize novel objects and their attributes in real-world scenarios. We propose OVODA, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Xinhao Xiang , Kuan-Chuan Peng , Suhas Lohit , Michael J. Jones , Jiawei Zhang

Open-vocabulary 3D object detection for autonomous driving aims to detect novel objects beyond the predefined training label sets in point cloud scenes. Existing approaches achieve this by connecting traditional 3D object detectors with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Adrian Chow , Evelien Riddell , Yimu Wang , Sean Sedwards , Krzysztof Czarnecki