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Traditional object detection models are typically trained on a fixed set of classes, limiting their flexibility and making it costly to incorporate new categories. Open-vocabulary object detection addresses this limitation by enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jyoti Kini , Rohit Gupta , Mubarak Shah

Recently, by introducing large-scale dataset and strong transformer network, video-language pre-training has shown great success especially for retrieval. Yet, existing video-language transformer models do not explicitly fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Alex Jinpeng Wang , Yixiao Ge , Guanyu Cai , Rui Yan , Xudong Lin , Ying Shan , Xiaohu Qie , Mike Zheng Shou

Open-vocabulary object detection, which is concerned with the problem of detecting novel objects guided by natural language, has gained increasing attention from the community. Ideally, we would like to extend an open-vocabulary detector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Yuhang Zang , Wei Li , Kaiyang Zhou , Chen Huang , Chen Change Loy

Inspired by the success of vision-language methods (VLMs) in zero-shot classification, recent works attempt to extend this line of work into object detection by leveraging the localization ability of pre-trained VLMs and generating pseudo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Yanxin Long , Jianhua Han , Runhui Huang , Xu Hang , Yi Zhu , Chunjing Xu , Xiaodan Liang

A domain shift exists between the large-scale, internet data used to train a Vision-Language Model (VLM) and the raw image streams collected by a robot. Existing adaptation strategies require the definition of a closed-set of classes, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Nicolas Harvey Chapman , Feras Dayoub , Will Browne , Christopher Lehnert

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

The goal of this work is to establish a scalable pipeline for expanding an object detector towards novel/unseen categories, using zero manual annotations. To achieve that, we make the following four contributions: (i) in pursuit of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Chengjian Feng , Yujie Zhong , Zequn Jie , Xiangxiang Chu , Haibing Ren , Xiaolin Wei , Weidi Xie , Lin Ma

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

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) has recently gained significant attention as a crucial step toward achieving human-like visual intelligence. Existing OVOD methods extend target vocabulary from pre-defined categories to open-world by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Sunghun Kang , Junbum Cha , Jonghwan Mun , Byungseok Roh , Chang D. Yoo

This paper addresses the challenging problem of open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) where an object detector must identify both seen and unseen classes in test images without labeled examples of the unseen classes in training. A typical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Chau Pham , Truong Vu , Khoi Nguyen

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation enables models to identify novel object categories beyond their training data. While this flexibility represents a significant advancement, current approaches still rely on manually specified class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Klara Reichard , Giulia Rizzoli , Stefano Gasperini , Lukas Hoyer , Pietro Zanuttigh , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Vocabulary adaptation, which integrates new vocabulary into pre-trained language models, enables expansion to new languages and mitigates token over-fragmentation. However, existing approaches are limited by their reliance on heuristics or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-18 HyoJung Han , Akiko Eriguchi , Haoran Xu , Hieu Hoang , Marine Carpuat , Huda Khayrallah

Recent advancements in large vision-language models enabled visual object detection in open-vocabulary scenarios, where object classes are defined in free-text formats during inference. In this paper, we aim to probe the state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Lorenzo Bianchi , Fabio Carrara , Nicola Messina , Claudio Gennaro , Fabrizio Falchi

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

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

Image captioning models have lately shown impressive results when applied to standard datasets. Switching to real-life scenarios, however, constitutes a challenge due to the larger variety of visual concepts which are not covered in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Marco Cagrandi , Marcella Cornia , Matteo Stefanini , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Object detection is an important task in computer vision, which aims to detect the objects of interest. through the given category list or query images. In this work, we propose a new problem of language-visual-complementary open-set object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yupeng Zhang , Ruize Han , Wei Feng , Song Wang , Liang Wan

In this work, we tackle the limitations of current LiDAR-based 3D object detection systems, which are hindered by a restricted class vocabulary and the high costs associated with annotating new object classes. Our exploration of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Djamahl Etchegaray , Zi Huang , Tatsuya Harada , Yadan Luo

Vision-language object detectors (VLODs) such as YOLO-World and Grounding DINO exhibit strong zero-shot generalization, but their performance degrades under distribution shift. Test-time adaptation (TTA) offers a practical way to adapt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Atif Belal , Heitor R. Medeiros , Marco Pedersoli , Eric Granger

Object detection has been expanded from a limited number of categories to open vocabulary. Moving forward, a complete intelligent vision system requires understanding more fine-grained object descriptions, object parts. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Peize Sun , Shoufa Chen , Chenchen Zhu , Fanyi Xiao , Ping Luo , Saining Xie , Zhicheng Yan