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Conventional open-world object detection (OWOD) problem setting first distinguishes known and unknown classes and then later incrementally learns the unknown objects when introduced with labels in the subsequent tasks. However, the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Sahal Shaji Mullappilly , Abhishek Singh Gehlot , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Hisham Cholakkal

Open-world object detection (OWOD) requires detectors to localize known classes while identifying unknown objects for future incremental learning. We find that the unknown prediction streams of strong OWOD detectors are heavily polluted: on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yingjun Xiao , Xi Chen , Gang Fang , Siyuan Chen

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

Open-world object detection (OWOD), as a more general and challenging goal, requires the model trained from data on known objects to detect both known and unknown objects and incrementally learn to identify these unknown objects. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Shuailei Ma , Yuefeng Wang , Jiaqi Fan , Ying Wei , Thomas H. Li , Hongli Liu , Fanbing Lv

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

Current closed-set instance segmentation models rely on pre-defined class labels for each mask during training and evaluation, largely limiting their ability to detect novel objects. Open-world instance segmentation (OWIS) models address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Muzhi Zhu , Hengtao Li , Hao Chen , Chengxiang Fan , Weian Mao , Chenchen Jing , Yifan Liu , Chunhua Shen

Open World Object Detection (OWOD) is a challenging and realistic task that extends beyond the scope of standard Object Detection task. It involves detecting both known and unknown objects while integrating learned knowledge for future…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Thang Doan , Xin Li , Sima Behpour , Wenbin He , Liang Gou , Liu Ren

Real-world object detection must operate in evolving environments where new classes emerge, domains shift, and unseen objects must be identified as "unknown": all without accessing prior data. We introduce Evolving World Object Detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Munish Monga , Vishal Chudasama , Pankaj Wasnik , C. V. Jawahar

In many applications, such as autonomous driving, hand manipulation, or robot navigation, object detection methods must be able to detect objects unseen in the training set. Open World Detection(OWD) seeks to tackle this problem by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Sachin Konan , Kevin J Liang , Li Yin

Open-Set Object Detection (OSOD) has emerged as a contemporary research direction to address the detection of unknown objects. Recently, few works have achieved remarkable performance in the OSOD task by employing contrastive clustering to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Hiran Sarkar , Vishal Chudasama , Naoyuki Onoe , Pankaj Wasnik , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Traditional semi-supervised object detection methods assume a fixed set of object classes (in-distribution or ID classes) during training and deployment, which limits performance in real-world scenarios where unseen classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Garvita Allabadi , Ana Lucic , Siddarth Aananth , Tiffany Yang , Yu-Xiong Wang , Vikram Adve

In real-world applications where confidence is key, like autonomous driving, the accurate detection and appropriate handling of classes differing from those used during training are crucial. Despite the proposal of various unknown object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Hejer Ammar , Nikita Kiselov , Guillaume Lapouge , Romaric Audigier

Traditional object detection models are constrained by the limitations of closed-set datasets, detecting only categories encountered during training. While multimodal models have extended category recognition by aligning text and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Lihao Liu , Juexiao Feng , Hui Chen , Ao Wang , Lin Song , Jungong Han , Guiguang Ding

Open vocabulary object detection (OVD) aims at seeking an optimal object detector capable of recognizing objects from both base and novel categories. Recent advances leverage knowledge distillation to transfer insightful knowledge from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jiaming Li , Jiacheng Zhang , Jichang Li , Ge Li , Si Liu , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

Because of its use in practice, open-world object detection (OWOD) has gotten a lot of attention recently. The challenge is how can a model detect novel classes and then incrementally learn them without forgetting previously known classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Qian Wan , Xiang Xiang , Qinhao Zhou

Open-set object detection (OSOD), a task involving the detection of unknown objects while accurately detecting known objects, has recently gained attention. However, we identify a fundamental issue with the problem formulation employed in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yusuke Hosoya , Masanori Suganuma , Takayuki Okatani

Object detection is integral to a bevy of real-world applications, from robotics to medical image analysis. To be used reliably in such applications, models must be capable of handling unexpected - or novel - objects. The open world object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Orr Zohar , Alejandro Lozano , Shelly Goel , Serena Yeung , Kuan-Chieh Wang

Incremental Object Detection (IOD) aims to continuously learn new object categories without forgetting previously learned ones. Recently, prompt-based methods have gained popularity for their replay-free design and parameter efficiency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yaoteng Zhang , Zhou Qing , Junyu Gao , Qi Wang

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

Autonomous driving (AD) operates in open-world scenarios, where encountering unknown objects is inevitable. However, standard object detectors trained on a limited number of base classes tend to ignore any unknown objects, posing potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Lars Schmarje , Kaspar Sakman , Reinhard Koch , Dan Zhang