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Existing object detection methods are bounded in a fixed-set vocabulary by costly labeled data. When dealing with novel categories, the model has to be retrained with more bounding box annotations. Natural language supervision is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Chuang Lin , Peize Sun , Yi Jiang , Ping Luo , Lizhen Qu , Gholamreza Haffari , Zehuan Yuan , Jianfei Cai

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

This paper presents DetCLIPv2, an efficient and scalable training framework that incorporates large-scale image-text pairs to achieve open-vocabulary object detection (OVD). Unlike previous OVD frameworks that typically rely on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Lewei Yao , Jianhua Han , Xiaodan Liang , Dan Xu , Wei Zhang , Zhenguo Li , Hang Xu

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

Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVOD) has achieved remarkable success in generalizing to novel categories. However, this success often rests on the implicit assumption of domain stationarity. In this work, we provide a principled revisit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Xiaoran Xu , Xiaoshan Yang , Jiangang Yang , Yifan Xu , Jian Liu , Changsheng Xu

Open-vocabulary learning has emerged as a cutting-edge research area, particularly in light of the widespread adoption of vision-based foundational models. Its primary objective is to comprehend novel concepts that are not encompassed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Chunlei Wang , Wenquan Feng , Xiangtai Li , Guangliang Cheng , Shuchang Lyu , Binghao Liu , Lijiang Chen , Qi Zhao

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) aims to detect both seen and unseen categories, yet existing methods often struggle to generalize to novel objects due to limited integration of global and local contextual cues. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Soichiro Okazaki , Tatsuya Sasaki , Hiroki Ohashi

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) enables models to detect any object category, including unseen ones. Benefiting from large-scale pre-training, existing OVOD methods achieve strong detection performance on general scenarios (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Weihao Cao , Runqi Wang , Xiaoyue Duan , Jinchao Zhang , Ang Yang , Liping Jing

Object detection traditionally relies on fixed category sets, requiring costly re-training to handle novel objects. While Open-World and Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OWOD and OVOD) improve flexibility, OWOD lacks semantic labels for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Furkan Mumcu , Michael J. Jones , Anoop Cherian , Yasin Yilmaz

Vision-Language Model (VLM) have gained widespread adoption in Open-Vocabulary (OV) object detection and segmentation tasks. Despite they have shown promise on OV-related tasks, their effectiveness in conventional vision tasks has thus far…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yongchao Feng , Yajie Liu , Shuai Yang , Wenrui Cai , Jinqing Zhang , Qiqi Zhan , Ziyue Huang , Hongxi Yan , Qiao Wan , Chenguang Liu , Junzhe Wang , Jiahui Lv , Ziqi Liu , Tengyuan Shi , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Open-vocabulary object perception has become an important topic in artificial intelligence, which aims to identify objects with novel classes that have not been seen during training. Under this setting, open-vocabulary object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Haiji Liang , Ruize Han

The challenge of Out-Of-Distribution (OOD) robustness remains a critical hurdle towards deploying deep vision models. Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have recently achieved groundbreaking results. VLM-based open-vocabulary object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Prakash Chandra Chhipa , Kanjar De , Meenakshi Subhash Chippa , Rajkumar Saini , Marcus Liwicki

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) aims at localizing and recognizing visual objects from novel classes unseen at the training time. Whereas, empirical studies reveal that advanced detectors generally assign lower scores to those novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Yanhao Zheng , Kai Liu

Recent generalist vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive reasoning capabilities across diverse multimodal tasks. However, these models still struggle with fine-grained object-level understanding and grounding. In terms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Timothy Ossowski , Junjie Hu

Despite the remarkable progress in open-vocabulary object detection (OVD), a significant gap remains between the training and testing phases. During training, the RPN and RoI heads often misclassify unlabeled novel-category objects as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yupeng Zhang , Ruize Han , Zhiwei Chen , Wei Feng , Liang Wan

Conventional object detectors typically operate under a closed-set assumption, limiting recognition to a predefined set of base classes seen during training. Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) addresses this limitation by leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Sanghoon Lee , Geon Lee , Hyekang Park , Bumsub Ham

Learning from pseudo-labels that generated with VLMs~(Vision Language Models) has been shown as a promising solution to assist open vocabulary detection (OVD) in recent studies. However, due to the domain gap between VLM and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Kuo Wang , Lechao Cheng , Weikai Chen , Pingping Zhang , Liang Lin , Fan Zhou , Guanbin Li

Zero-shot out-of-vocabulary detection (ZS-OOVD) aims to accurately recognize objects of in-vocabulary (IV) categories provided at zero-shot inference, while simultaneously rejecting undefined ones (out-of-vocabulary, OOV) that lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Binyi Su , Chenghao Huang , Haiyong Chen

Open World Object Detection(OWOD) addresses realistic scenarios where unseen object classes emerge, enabling detectors trained on known classes to detect unknown objects and incrementally incorporate the knowledge they provide. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Sunoh Lee , Minsik Jeon , Jihong Min , Junwon Seo

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