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Transformers trained with self-supervised learning using self-distillation loss (DINO) have been shown to produce attention maps that highlight salient foreground objects. In this paper, we demonstrate a graph-based approach that uses the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Yangtao Wang , Xi Shen , Shell Hu , Yuan Yuan , James Crowley , Dominique Vaufreydaz

Open World Object Detection (OWOD) is a novel and challenging computer vision task that enables object detection with the ability to detect unknown objects. Existing methods typically estimate the object likelihood with an additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yulin He , Wei Chen , Yusong Tan , Siqi Wang

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

Underwater object detection (UOD) is crucial for marine economic development, environmental protection, and the planet's sustainable development. The main challenges of this task arise from low-contrast, small objects, and mimicry of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Linhui Dai , Hong Liu , Pinhao Song , Hao Tang , Runwei Ding , Shengquan Li

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

We study the problem of unsupervised physical object discovery. While existing frameworks aim to decompose scenes into 2D segments based off each object's appearance, we explore how physics, especially object interactions, facilitates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Yilun Du , Kevin Smith , Tomer Ulman , Joshua Tenenbaum , Jiajun Wu

Despite the importance of unsupervised object detection, to the best of our knowledge, there is no previous work addressing this problem. One main issue, widely known to the community, is that object boundaries derived only from 2D image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Hao Tian , Yuntao Chen , Jifeng Dai , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Xizhou Zhu

Developing reliable UAV navigation systems requires robust air-to-air object detectors capable of distinguishing between objects seen during training and previously unseen objects. While many methods address closed-set detection and achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Spyridon Loukovitis , Vasileios Karampinis , Athanasios Voulodimos

Occlusion is a longstanding difficulty that challenges the UAV-based object detection. Many works address this problem by adapting the detection model. However, few of them exploit that the UAV could fundamentally improve detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Xinhua Jiang , Tianpeng Liu , Li Liu , Zhen Liu , Yongxiang Liu

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

Concealed object detection (COD) in cluttered scenes is significant for various image processing applications. However, due to that concealed objects are always similar to their background, it is extremely hard to distinguish them. Here,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yuhan Kang , Qingpeng Li , Leyuan Fang , Jian Zhao , Xuelong Li

In present object detection systems, the deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are utilized to predict bounding boxes of object candidates, and have gained performance advantages over the traditional region proposal methods. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-05 Jiahui Yu , Yuning Jiang , Zhangyang Wang , Zhimin Cao , Thomas Huang

Camouflage object detection (COD) poses a significant challenge due to the high resemblance between camouflaged objects and their surroundings. Although current deep learning methods have made significant progress in detecting camouflaged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Yuchen Dong , Heng Zhou , Chengyang Li , Junjie Xie , Yongqiang Xie , Zhongbo Li

We study the problem of unsupervised discovery and segmentation of object parts, which, as an intermediate local representation, are capable of finding intrinsic object structure and providing more explainable recognition results. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Shilong Liu , Lei Zhang , Xiao Yang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Unsupervised cross-domain image retrieval (UCIR) aims to retrieve images of the same category across diverse domains without relying on annotations. Existing UCIR methods, which align cross-domain features for the entire image, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Ruohong Yang , Peng Hu , Yunfan Li , Xi Peng

Foreground segmentation is an essential task in the field of image understanding. Under unsupervised conditions, different images and instances always have variable expressions, which make it difficult to achieve stable segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Xi Li , Huimin Ma , Hongbing Ma , Yidong Wang

Small object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery is challenging, mainly due to scale variation, structural detail degradation, and limited computational resources. In high-altitude scenarios, fine-grained features are further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xuecheng Bai , Yuxiang Wang , Chuanzhi Xu , Boyu Hu , Kang Han , Ruijie Pan , Xiaowei Niu , Xiaotian Guan , Liqiang Fu , Pengfei Ye

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

Most object detectors operate under a closed-world assumption, recognizing only the classes annotated in the training dataset and failing when encountering novel objects. Open-World Object Detection (OWOD) relaxes this assumption by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yuchen Zhang , Yao Lu , Johannes Betz