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Traditional object detection models in medical imaging operate within a closed-set paradigm, limiting their ability to detect objects of novel labels. Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) addresses this limitation but remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Tooba Tehreem Sheikh , Jean Lahoud , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Salman Khan , Hisham Cholakkal

In this paper, we for the first time explore helpful multi-modal contextual knowledge to understand novel categories for open-vocabulary object detection (OVD). The multi-modal contextual knowledge stands for the joint relationship across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Yifan Xu , Mengdan Zhang , Xiaoshan Yang , Changsheng Xu

Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVOD) aims to enable detectors to generalize across categories by leveraging semantic information. Although existing methods are pretrained on large vision-language datasets, their inference is still…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chujie Wang , Jianyu Lu , Zhiyuan Luo , Xi Chen , Chu He

Open-Ended object Detection (OED) is a novel and challenging task that detects objects and generates their category names in a free-form manner, without requiring additional vocabularies during inference. However, the existing OED models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Guiping Cao , Tao Wang , Wenjian Huang , Xiangyuan Lan , Jianguo Zhang , Dongmei Jiang

Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVD) faces severe performance degradation when applied to UAV imagery due to the domain gap from ground-level datasets. To address this challenge, we propose a complete UAV-oriented solution that combines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Zhenhai Weng , Xinjie Li , Can Wu , Weijie He , Jianfeng Lv , Dong Zhou , Zhongliang Yu

Prompt-OVD is an efficient and effective framework for open-vocabulary object detection that utilizes class embeddings from CLIP as prompts, guiding the Transformer decoder to detect objects in both base and novel classes. Additionally, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Hwanjun Song , Jihwan Bang

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) extends recognition beyond fixed taxonomies by aligning visual and textual features, as in MDETR, GLIP, or RegionCLIP. While effective, these models require updating all parameters of large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Bilal Faye , Hanane Azzag , Mustapha Lebbah

The goal of open-vocabulary detection is to identify novel objects based on arbitrary textual descriptions. In this paper, we address open-vocabulary 3D point-cloud detection by a dividing-and-conquering strategy, which involves: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Yuheng Lu , Chenfeng Xu , Xiaobao Wei , Xiaodong Xie , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Kurt Keutzer , Shanghang Zhang

Enabling models to recognize vast open-world categories has been a longstanding pursuit in object detection. By leveraging the generalization capabilities of vision-language models, current open-world detectors can recognize a broader range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yitong Chen , Wenhao Yao , Lingchen Meng , Sihong Wu , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Existing methods enhance open-vocabulary object detection by leveraging the robust open-vocabulary recognition capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP.However, two main challenges emerge:(1) A deficiency in concept…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Penghui Du , Yu Wang , Yifan Sun , Luting Wang , Yue Liao , Gang Zhang , Errui Ding , Yan Wang , Jingdong Wang , Si Liu

In this paper, we attempt to specialize the VLM model for OWOD tasks by distilling its open-world knowledge into a language-agnostic detector. Surprisingly, we observe that the combination of a simple \textbf{knowledge distillation}…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Shuailei Ma , Yuefeng Wang , Ying Wei , Jiaqi Fan , Enming Zhang , Xinyu Sun , Peihao Chen

Unsupervised domain adaptation methods have been widely explored to bridge domain gaps. However, in real-world remote-sensing scenarios, privacy and transmission constraints often preclude access to source domain data, which limits their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jianhong Han , Yupei Wang , Liang Chen

Open-vocabulary (OV) 3D object detection is an emerging field, yet its exploration through image-based methods remains limited compared to 3D point cloud-based methods. We introduce OpenM3D, a novel open-vocabulary multi-view indoor 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Peng-Hao Hsu , Ke Zhang , Fu-En Wang , Tao Tu , Ming-Feng Li , Yu-Lun Liu , Albert Y. C. Chen , Min Sun , Cheng-Hao Kuo

Vision-language models such as CLIP have boosted the performance of open-vocabulary object detection, where the detector is trained on base categories but required to detect novel categories. Existing methods leverage CLIP's strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Cheng Shi , Sibei Yang

Open-World Object Detection (OWOD) extends object detection problem to a realistic and dynamic scenario, where a detection model is required to be capable of detecting both known and unknown objects and incrementally learning newly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Ruohuan Fang , Guansong Pang , Lei Zhou , Xiao Bai , Jin Zheng

Detecting anomalous hazards in visual data, particularly in video streams, is a critical challenge in autonomous driving. Existing models often struggle with unpredictable, out-of-label hazards due to their reliance on predefined object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Shashank Shriram , Srinivasa Perisetla , Aryan Keskar , Harsha Krishnaswamy , Tonko Emil Westerhof Bossen , Andreas Møgelmose , Ross Greer

Open-Vocabulary Detection (OVD) is the task of detecting all interesting objects in a given scene without predefined object classes. Extensive work has been done to deal with the OVD for 2D RGB images, but the exploration of 3D OVD is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Xingyu Peng , Yan Bai , Chen Gao , Lirong Yang , Fei Xia , Beipeng Mu , Xiaofei Wang , Si Liu

The task of LiDAR-based 3D Open-Vocabulary Detection (3D OVD) requires the detector to learn to detect novel objects from point clouds without off-the-shelf training labels. Previous methods focus on the learning of object-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Xingyu Peng , Si Liu , Chen Gao , Yan Bai , Beipeng Mu , Xiaofei Wang , Huaxia Xia

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

It is highly desirable yet challenging to generate image captions that can describe novel objects which are unseen in caption-labeled training data, a capability that is evaluated in the novel object captioning challenge (nocaps). In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Xiaowei Hu , Xi Yin , Kevin Lin , Lijuan Wang , Lei Zhang , Jianfeng Gao , Zicheng Liu