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Deploying trustworthy AI in open-world environments faces a dual challenge: the necessity for robust Out-of-Distribution (OOD) detection to ensure system safety, and the demand for flexible machine unlearning to satisfy privacy compliance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Ningkang Peng , Kun Shao , Jingyang Mao , Linjing Qian , Xiaoqian Peng , Xichen Yang , Yanhui Gu

Current state-of-the-art object detection and segmentation methods work well under the closed-world assumption. This closed-world setting assumes that the list of object categories is available during training and deployment. However, many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Weiyao Wang , Matt Feiszli , Heng Wang , Du Tran

Out-of-distribution (OOD) object detection is an important yet underexplored task. A reliable object detector should be able to handle OOD objects by localizing and correctly classifying them as OOD. However, a critical issue arises when…

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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

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

Conventional camera-based 3D object detectors in autonomous driving are limited to recognizing a predefined set of objects, which poses a safety risk when encountering novel or unseen objects in real-world scenarios. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhuolin He , Xinrun Li , Jiacheng Tang , Shoumeng Qiu , Wenfu Wang , Xiangyang Xue , Jian Pu

The superior performance of object detectors is often established under the condition that the test samples are in the same distribution as the training data. However, in many practical applications, out-of-distribution (OOD) instances are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Tianhao Zhang , Shenglin Wang , Nidhal Bouaynaya , Radu Calinescu , Lyudmila Mihaylova

Object Detection on the mobile system is a challenge in terms of everything. Nowadays, many object detection models have been designed, and most of them concentrate on precision. However, the computation burden of those models on mobile…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Yihao Wang , Ling Gao , Jie Ren , Rui Cao , Hai Wang , Jie Zheng , Quanli Gao

Automated driving object detection has always been a challenging task in computer vision due to environmental uncertainties. These uncertainties include significant differences in object sizes and encountering the class unseen. It may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zezhou Wang , Guitao Cao , Xidong Xi , Jiangtao 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

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is an essential approach to robustifying deep learning models, enabling them to identify inputs that fall outside of their trained distribution. Existing OOD detection methods usually depend on crafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Yifan Wu , Xichen Ye , Songmin Dai , Dengye Pan , Xiaoqiang Li , Weizhong Zhang , Yifan Chen

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) enables models to recognize objects beyond predefined categories, but existing approaches remain limited in practical deployment. On the one hand, multimodal designs often incur substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Siheng Wang , Yanshu Li , Bohan Hu , Zhengdao Li , Haibo Zhan , Linshan Li , Weiming Liu , Ruizhi Qian , Guangxin Wu , Hao Zhang , Jifeng Shen , Piotr Koniusz , Zhengtao Yao , Junhao Dong , Qiang Sun

Object detectors achieve strong performance under nominal imaging conditions but can fail silently when exposed to blur, noise, compression, adverse weather, or resolution changes. In safety-critical settings, it is therefore insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Stefan Becker , Simon Weiss , Wolfgang Hübner , Michael Arens

In open-set recognition (OSR), a promising strategy is exploiting pseudo-unknown data outside given $K$ known classes as an additional $K$+$1$-th class to explicitly model potential open space. However, treating unknown classes without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Chaohua Li , Enhao Zhang , Chuanxing Geng , SongCan Chen

Detecting objects based on language information is a popular task that includes Open-Vocabulary object Detection (OVD) and Referring Expression Comprehension (REC). In this paper, we advance them to a more practical setting called Described…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Chi Xie , Zhao Zhang , Yixuan Wu , Feng Zhu , Rui Zhao , Shuang Liang

Many top-down architectures for instance segmentation achieve significant success when trained and tested on pre-defined closed-world taxonomy. However, when deployed in the open world, they exhibit notable bias towards seen classes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Tarun Kalluri , Weiyao Wang , Heng Wang , Manmohan Chandraker , Lorenzo Torresani , Du Tran

Out-of-distribution (OOD) object detection is a critical task focused on detecting objects that originate from a data distribution different from that of the training data. In this study, we investigate to what extent state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Sadia Ilyas , Ido Freeman , Matthias Rottmann

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have achieved state-of-the-art results for novel view synthesis. However, efficiently capturing high-fidelity reconstructions of specific objects within complex scenes remains a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Haiyi Li , Qi Chen , Denis Kalkofen , Hsiang-Ting Chen

The separation of overlapping objects presents a significant challenge in scientific imaging. While deep learning segmentation-regression algorithms can predict pixel-wise intensities, they typically treat all regions equally rather than…

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