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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

This paper addresses the significant challenge in open-set object detection (OSOD): the tendency of state-of-the-art detectors to erroneously classify unknown objects as known categories with high confidence. We present a novel approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Prakash Mallick , Feras Dayoub , Jamie Sherrah

Existing 3D object detectors encounter extreme challenges in localizing unseen 3D objects and recognizing them as unseen, which is a crucial technology in autonomous driving in the wild. To address these challenges, we propose practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Hyunjun Choi , Daeho Um , Hawook Jeong

Open-world object detection (OWOD) requires incrementally detecting known categories while reliably identifying unknown objects. Existing methods primarily focus on improving unknown recall, yet overlook interpretability, often leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Xueqiang Lv , Shizhou Zhang , Yinghui Xing , Di Xu , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Semi-Supervised Object Detection (SSOD), aiming to explore unlabeled data for boosting object detectors, has become an active task in recent years. However, existing SSOD approaches mainly focus on horizontal objects, leaving multi-oriented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Wei Hua , Dingkang Liang , Jingyu Li , Xiaolong Liu , Zhikang Zou , Xiaoqing Ye , Xiang Bai

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Sadia Ilyas , Annika Mütze , Klaus Friedrichs , Thomas Kurbiel , Matthias Rottmann

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD), detecting specific classes of objects using only their linguistic descriptions (e.g., class names) without any image samples, has garnered significant attention. However, in real-world applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yusuke Hosoya , Masanori Suganuma , Takayuki Okatani

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

As we move towards large-scale object detection, it is unrealistic to expect annotated training data, in the form of bounding box annotations around objects, for all object classes at sufficient scale, and so methods capable of unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Pengkai Zhu , Hanxiao Wang , Venkatesh Saligrama

Many open-world applications require the detection of novel objects, yet state-of-the-art object detection and instance segmentation networks do not excel at this task. The key issue lies in their assumption that regions without any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Kuniaki Saito , Ping Hu , Trevor Darrell , Kate Saenko

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-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

Object detection is an essential and fundamental task in computer vision and satellite image processing. Existing deep learning methods have achieved impressive performance thanks to the availability of large-scale annotated datasets. Yet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Fahong Zhang , Yilei Shi , Zhitong Xiong , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Deep learning has emerged as an effective solution for solving the task of object detection in images but at the cost of requiring large labeled datasets. To mitigate this cost, semi-supervised object detection methods, which consist in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Renaud Vandeghen , Gilles Louppe , Marc Van Droogenbroeck

Open World Object Detection (OWOD) is a challenging and realistic task that extends beyond the scope of standard Object Detection task. It involves detecting both known and unknown objects while integrating learned knowledge for future…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Thang Doan , Xin Li , Sima Behpour , Wenbin He , Liang Gou , Liu Ren

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) use object detection models to recognize their surroundings and make driving decisions accordingly. Conventional object detection approaches classify objects into known classes, which limits the AV's ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Menna Taha , Aya Ahmed , Mohammed Karmoose , Yasser Gadallah

Supervised learning based object detection frameworks demand plenty of laborious manual annotations, which may not be practical in real applications. Semi-supervised object detection (SSOD) can effectively leverage unlabeled data to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Qiang Zhou , Chaohui Yu , Zhibin Wang , Qi Qian , Hao Li

Marine object detection has gained prominence in marine research, driven by the pressing need to unravel oceanic mysteries and enhance our understanding of invaluable marine ecosystems. There is a profound requirement to efficiently and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Liang Haixin , Zheng Ziqiang , Ma Zeyu , Sai-Kit Yeung

LiDAR-based 3D object detection has become an essential part of automated driving due to its ability to localize and classify objects precisely in 3D. However, object detectors face a critical challenge when dealing with unknown foreground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Michael Kösel , Marcel Schreiber , Michael Ulrich , Claudius Gläser , Klaus Dietmayer

Despite weakly supervised object detection (WSOD) being a promising step toward evading strong instance-level annotations, its capability is confined to closed-set categories within a single training dataset. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Jianghang Lin , Yunhang Shen , Bingquan Wang , Shaohui Lin , Ke Li , Liujuan Cao