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The lack of a large-scale 3D-text corpus has led recent works to distill open-vocabulary knowledge from vision-language models (VLMs). However, these methods typically rely on a single VLM to align the feature spaces of 3D models within a…

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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…

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Camouflaged object detection (COD) aims to identify the objects that conceal themselves in natural scenes. Accurate COD suffers from a number of challenges associated with low boundary contrast and the large variation of object appearances,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Geng Chen , Si-Jie Liu , Yu-Jia Sun , Ge-Peng Ji , Ya-Feng Wu , Tao Zhou

Open World Object Detection (OWOD) is a challenging computer vision problem that requires detecting unknown objects and gradually learning the identified unknown classes. However, it cannot distinguish unknown instances as multiple unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Zhiheng Wu , Yue Lu , Xingyu Chen , Zhengxing Wu , Liwen Kang , Junzhi Yu

Recent research has demonstrated that Large Language Models (LLMs) are not limited to text-only tasks but can also function as multimodal models across various modalities, including audio, images, and videos. In particular, research on 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Keonwoo Kim , Yeongjae Cho , Taebaek Hwang , Minsoo Jo , Sangdo Han

Open World Object Detection (OWOD), simulating the real dynamic world where knowledge grows continuously, attempts to detect both known and unknown classes and incrementally learn the identified unknown ones. We find that although the only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Xiaowei Zhao , Xianglong Liu , Yifan Shen , Yixuan Qiao , Yuqing Ma , Duorui Wang

Recent advancements in 3D object detection and novel category detection have made significant progress, yet research on learning generalized 3D objectness remains insufficient. In this paper, we delve into learning open-world 3D objectness,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Taichi Liu , Zhenyu Wang , Ruofeng Liu , Guang Wang , Desheng Zhang

Visual-language models (VLMs) excel at data mappings, but real-world document heterogeneity and unstructuredness disrupt the consistency of cross-modal embeddings. Recent late-interaction methods enhance image-text alignment through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Weiqing Li , Jinyue Guo , Yaqi Wang , Haiyang Xiao , Yuewei Zhang , Guohua Liu , Hao Henry Wang

Camouflaged object detection identifies objects that blend seamlessly with their surroundings through similar colors, textures, and patterns. This task challenges both traditional segmentation methods and modern foundation models, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Baber Jan , Aiman H. El-Maleh , Abdul Jabbar Siddiqui , Abdul Bais , Saeed Anwar

Estimating continuous optical flow is a fundamental yet challenging problem in dynamic visual perception. Event-based cameras, with microsecond latency and high dynamic range, capture brightness changes asynchronously, offering a unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Rui Hu , Song Wu , Wen Yang , Jinjian Wu

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

Multimodal 3D object detectors leverage the strengths of both geometry-aware LiDAR point clouds and semantically rich RGB images to enhance detection performance. However, the inherent heterogeneity between these modalities, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zhuoqun Su , Huimin Lu , Shuaifeng Jiao , Junhao Xiao , Yaonan Wang , Xieyuanli Chen

Open-world (OW) recognition and detection models show strong zero- and few-shot adaptation abilities, inspiring their use as initializations in continual learning methods to improve performance. Despite promising results on seen classes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Bowen Dong , Zitong Huang , Guanglei Yang , Lei Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo

The goal of this paper is open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) $\unicode{x2013}$ building a model that can detect objects beyond the set of categories seen at training, thus enabling the user to specify categories of interest at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Prannay Kaul , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

3D semantic occupancy prediction is a pivotal task in autonomous driving, providing a dense and fine-grained understanding of the surrounding environment, yet single-modality methods face trade-offs between camera semantics and LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 A. Enes Doruk , Hasan F. Ates

Image fusion is a crucial technique in the field of computer vision, and its goal is to generate high-quality fused images and improve the performance of downstream tasks. However, existing fusion methods struggle to balance these two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Hui Li , Congcong Bian , Zeyang Zhang , Xiaoning Song , Xi Li , Xiao-Jun Wu

Weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) aims at learning precise object detectors with only image-level tags. In spite of intensive research on deep learning (DL) approaches over the past few years, there is still a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Qi Lai , ChiMan Vong

Visual domain gaps often impact object detection performance. Image-to-image translation can mitigate this effect, where contrastive approaches enable learning of the image-to-image mapping under unsupervised regimes. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Danai Triantafyllidou , Sarah Parisot , Ales Leonardis , Steven McDonagh

We address the challenging problem of open world object detection (OWOD), where object detectors must identify objects from known classes while also identifying and continually learning to detect novel objects. Prior work has resulted in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 David Pershouse , Feras Dayoub , Dimity Miller , Niko Sünderhauf

Unsupervised contrastive learning for indoor-scene point clouds has achieved great successes. However, unsupervised learning point clouds in outdoor scenes remains challenging because previous methods need to reconstruct the whole scene and…

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