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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

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

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

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-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

Open World Object Detection (OWOD) is a challenging computer vision task that extends standard object detection by (1) detecting and classifying unknown objects without supervision, and (2) incrementally learning new object classes without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Riku Inoue , Masamitsu Tsuchiya , Yuji Yasui

In this work, we tackle the problem of Open World Object Detection (OWOD). This challenging scenario requires the detector to incrementally learn to classify known objects without forgetting while identifying unknown objects without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jun-Woo Heo , Keonhee Park , Gyeong-Moon Park

Object detection methods have witnessed impressive improvements in the last years thanks to the design of novel neural network architectures and the availability of large scale datasets. However, current methods have a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Dario Fontanel , Matteo Tarantino , Fabio Cermelli , Barbara Caputo

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

Humans have a natural instinct to identify unknown object instances in their environments. The intrinsic curiosity about these unknown instances aids in learning about them, when the corresponding knowledge is eventually available. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 K J Joseph , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

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

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

Open-Set Object Detection (OSOD) is crucial for autonomous driving, where perception systems must recognize and localize both known and previously unseen objects in complex, dynamic environments. While recent approaches deliver promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yuchen Zhang , Yao Lu , Johannes Betz

Open-world perception aims to develop a model adaptable to novel domains and various sensor configurations and can understand uncommon objects and corner cases. However, current research lacks sufficiently comprehensive open-world 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zhongyu Xia , Jishuo Li , Zhiwei Lin , Xinhao Wang , Yongtao Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Open-set object detection (OSOD) aims to detect the known categories and reject unknown objects in a dynamic world, which has achieved significant attention. However, previous approaches only consider this problem in data-abundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Binyi Su , Hua Zhang , Jingzhi Li , Zhong Zhou

Detecting both known and unknown objects is a fundamental skill for robot manipulation in unstructured environments. Open-set object detection (OSOD) is a promising direction to handle the problem consisting of two subtasks: objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Zhongxiang Zhou , Yifei Yang , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

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

For decades, Computer Vision has aimed at enabling machines to perceive the external world. Initial limitations led to the development of highly specialized niches. As success in each task accrued and research progressed, increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Andrei-Stefan Bulzan , Cosmin Cernazanu-Glavan

A more realistic object detection paradigm, Open-World Object Detection, has arisen increasing research interests in the community recently. A qualified open-world object detector can not only identify objects of known categories, but also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Shuo Yang , Peize Sun , Yi Jiang , Xiaobo Xia , Ruiheng Zhang , Zehuan Yuan , Changhu Wang , Ping Luo , Min Xu

This paper introduces an innovative approach to open world recognition (OWR), where we leverage knowledge acquired from known objects to address the recognition of previously unseen objects. The traditional method of object modeling relies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Paridhi Singh , Arun Kumar