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Semantic occupancy prediction aims to infer dense geometry and semantics of surroundings for an autonomous agent to operate safely in the 3D environment. Existing occupancy prediction methods are almost entirely trained on human-annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Zhiyu Tan , Zichao Dong , Cheng Zhang , Weikun Zhang , Hang Ji , Hao Li

Visual counting, a task that aims to estimate the number of objects from an image/video, is an open-set problem by nature, i.e., the number of population can vary in [0, inf) in theory. However, collected data and labeled instances are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Haipeng Xiong , Hao Lu , Chengxin Liu , Liang Liu , Chunhua Shen , Zhiguo Cao

The advancement of remote sensing, including satellite systems, facilitates the continuous acquisition of remote sensing imagery globally, introducing novel challenges for achieving open-world tasks. Deployed models need to continuously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Xiang Xiang , Zhuo Xu , Yao Deng , Qinhao Zhou , Yifan Liang , Ke Chen , Qingfang Zheng , Yaowei Wang , Xilin Chen , Wen Gao

Current remote sensing vision-language models (RS VLMs) demonstrate impressive performance in image interpretation but rely on static training data, limiting their ability to accommodate continuously emerging sensing modalities and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xingxing Weng , Ruifeng Ni , Chao Pang , XiangYu Hao , Yishan Wang , Xiaokang Zhang , Wei Xu , Gui-Song Xia

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) aims to scale up vocabulary size to detect objects of novel categories beyond the training vocabulary. Recent work resorts to the rich knowledge in pre-trained vision-language models. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Peixian Chen , Kekai Sheng , Mengdan Zhang , Mingbao Lin , Yunhang Shen , Shaohui Lin , Bo Ren , Ke Li

Zero-shot object counting (ZOC) aims to enumerate objects in images using only the names of object classes during testing, without the need for manual annotations. However, a critical challenge in current ZOC methods lies in their inability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Huilin Zhu , Jingling Yuan , Zhengwei Yang , Yu Guo , Zheng Wang , Xian Zhong , Shengfeng He

Remote Sensing Image Captioning (RSIC) presents unique challenges and plays a critical role in applications. Traditional RSIC methods often struggle to produce rich and diverse descriptions. Recently, with advancements in VLMs, efforts have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Hui Lin , Danfeng Hong , Shuhang Ge , Chuyao Luo , Kai Jiang , Hao Jin , Congcong Wen

Open-vocabulary multi-object tracking (OVMOT) represents a critical new challenge involving the detection and tracking of diverse object categories in videos, encompassing both seen categories (base classes) and unseen categories (novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Zekun Qian , Ruize Han , Junhui Hou , Linqi Song , Wei Feng

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

Open-vocabulary object detection, which is concerned with the problem of detecting novel objects guided by natural language, has gained increasing attention from the community. Ideally, we would like to extend an open-vocabulary detector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Yuhang Zang , Wei Li , Kaiyang Zhou , Chen Huang , Chen Change Loy

Traditional object detection models are typically trained on a fixed set of classes, limiting their flexibility and making it costly to incorporate new categories. Open-vocabulary object detection addresses this limitation by enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jyoti Kini , Rohit Gupta , Mubarak Shah

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

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

We propose a new method to count objects of specific categories that are significantly smaller than the ground sampling distance of a satellite image. This task is hard due to the cluttered nature of scenes where different object categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Andres C. Rodriguez , Jan D. Wegner

Novel object captioning aims at describing objects absent from training data, with the key ingredient being the provision of object vocabulary to the model. Although existing methods heavily rely on an object detection model, we view the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Duc Minh Vo , Hong Chen , Akihiro Sugimoto , Hideki Nakayama

Open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding (OV-3D) aims to localize and classify novel objects beyond the closed set of object classes. However, existing approaches and benchmarks primarily focus on the open vocabulary problem within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Youjun Zhao , Jiaying Lin , Shuquan Ye , Qianshi Pang , Rynson W. H. Lau

Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) methods are capable of performing semantic segmentation without relying on a fixed vocabulary, and in some cases, without training or fine-tuning. However, OVS methods typically require a human in the loop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Osman Ülger , Maksymilian Kulicki , Yuki Asano , Martin R. Oswald

The nature of diversity in real-world environments necessitates neural network models to expand from closed category settings to accommodate novel emerging categories. In this paper, we study the open-vocabulary object detection (OVD),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Sunyuan Qiang , Xianfei Li , Yanyan Liang , Wenlong Liao , Tao He , Pai Peng

3D multi-object tracking plays a critical role in autonomous driving by enabling the real-time monitoring and prediction of multiple objects' movements. Traditional 3D tracking systems are typically constrained by predefined object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Ayesha Ishaq , Mohamed El Amine Boudjoghra , Jean Lahoud , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Salman Khan , Hisham Cholakkal , Rao Muhammad Anwer

Open-vocabulary segmentation (OVS) extends the zero-shot recognition capabilities of vision-language models (VLMs) to pixel-level prediction, enabling segmentation of arbitrary categories specified by text prompts. Despite recent progress,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Tilemachos Aravanis , Vladan Stojnić , Bill Psomas , Nikos Komodakis , Giorgos Tolias