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Open-vocabulary detection (OVD) is a challenging task to detect and classify objects from an unrestricted set of categories, including those unseen during training. Existing open-vocabulary detectors are limited by complex visual-textual…

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We introduce the new setting of open-vocabulary object 6D pose estimation, in which a textual prompt is used to specify the object of interest. In contrast to existing approaches, in our setting (i) the object of interest is specified…

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Language-driven object navigation requires agents to interpret natural language descriptions of target objects, which combine intrinsic and extrinsic attributes for instance recognition and commonsense navigation. Existing methods either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Francesco Taioli , Shiping Yang , Sonia Raychaudhuri , Marco Cristani , Unnat Jain , Angel X Chang

Deriving reliable region-word alignment from image-text pairs is critical to learn object-level vision-language representations for open-vocabulary object detection. Existing methods typically rely on pre-trained or self-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Chuofan Ma , Yi Jiang , Xin Wen , Zehuan Yuan , Xiaojuan Qi

Open-vocabulary 3D object detection (OV-3DDet) aims to localize and recognize both seen and previously unseen object categories within any new 3D scene. While language and vision foundation models have achieved success in handling various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Pengkun Jiao , Na Zhao , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

Detecting actions in untrimmed videos should not be limited to a small, closed set of classes. We present a simple, yet effective strategy for open-vocabulary temporal action detection utilizing pretrained image-text co-embeddings. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Vivek Rathod , Bryan Seybold , Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan , Austin Myers , Xiuye Gu , Vighnesh Birodkar , David A. Ross

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims at segmenting arbitrary categories expressed in textual form. Previous works have trained over large amounts of image-caption pairs to enforce pixel-level multimodal alignments. However, captions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Luca Barsellotti , Roberto Amoroso , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Recent open-vocabulary detection methods aim to detect novel objects by distilling knowledge from vision-language models (VLMs) trained on a vast amount of image-text pairs. To improve the effectiveness of these methods, researchers have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Han-Cheol Cho , Won Young Jhoo , Wooyoung Kang , Byungseok Roh

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

Traditional object detection methods operate under the closed-set assumption, where models can only detect a fixed number of objects predefined in the training set. Recent works on open vocabulary object detection (OVD) enable the detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zizhao Li , Zhengkang Xiang , Joseph West , Kourosh Khoshelham

The ability to interpret and comprehend a 3D scene is essential for many vision and robotics systems. In numerous applications, this involves 3D object detection, i.e.~identifying the location and dimensions of objects belonging to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Olivier Moliner , Viktor Larsson , Kalle Åström

Recently, vision-language pre-training shows great potential in open-vocabulary object detection, where detectors trained on base classes are devised for detecting new classes. The class text embedding is firstly generated by feeding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yu Du , Fangyun Wei , Zihe Zhang , Miaojing Shi , Yue Gao , Guoqi Li

Open vocabulary object detection has been greatly advanced by the recent development of vision-language pretrained model, which helps recognize novel objects with only semantic categories. The prior works mainly focus on knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Tao Wang , Nan Li

Existing open-vocabulary object detectors typically enlarge their vocabulary sizes by leveraging different forms of weak supervision. This helps generalize to novel objects at inference. Two popular forms of weak-supervision used in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Hanoona Rasheed , Muhammad Maaz , Muhammad Uzair Khattak , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

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

It is highly desirable yet challenging to generate image captions that can describe novel objects which are unseen in caption-labeled training data, a capability that is evaluated in the novel object captioning challenge (nocaps). In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Xiaowei Hu , Xi Yin , Kevin Lin , Lijuan Wang , Lei Zhang , Jianfeng Gao , Zicheng Liu

Open-Vocabulary Temporal Action Detection (OV-TAD) aims to classify and localize action segments in untrimmed videos for unseen categories. Previous methods rely solely on global alignment between label-level semantics and visual features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Sa Zhu , Wanqian Zhang , Lin Wang , Xiaohua Chen , Chenxu Cui , Jinchao Zhang , Bo Li

Language-based object detection (LOD) aims to align visual objects with language expressions. A large amount of paired data is utilized to improve LOD model generalizations. During the training process, recent studies leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yuming Chen , Jiangyan Feng , Haodong Zhang , Lijun Gong , Feng Zhu , Rui Zhao , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng , Yibing Song

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

Searching for objects in unfamiliar scenarios is a challenging task for blind people. It involves specifying the target object, detecting it, and then gathering detailed information according to the user's intent. However, existing…

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