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3D object detection plays a crucial role in autonomous systems, yet existing methods are limited by closed-set assumptions and struggle to recognize novel objects and their attributes in real-world scenarios. We propose OVODA, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Xinhao Xiang , Kuan-Chuan Peng , Suhas Lohit , Michael J. Jones , Jiawei Zhang

Object detection is integral to a bevy of real-world applications, from robotics to medical image analysis. To be used reliably in such applications, models must be capable of handling unexpected - or novel - objects. The open world object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Orr Zohar , Alejandro Lozano , Shelly Goel , Serena Yeung , Kuan-Chieh Wang

Object-based Novelty Detection (ND) aims to identify unknown objects that do not belong to classes seen during training by an object detection model. The task is particularly crucial in real-world applications, as it allows to avoid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Simone Caldarella , Elisa Ricci , Rahaf Aljundi

Robustness is a fundamental aspect for developing safe and trustworthy models, particularly when they are deployed in the open world. In this work we analyze the inherent capability of one-stage object detectors to robustly operate in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Aitor Martinez-Seras , Javier Del Ser , Aitzol Olivares-Rad , Alain Andres , Pablo Garcia-Bringas

Traditional semi-supervised object detection methods assume a fixed set of object classes (in-distribution or ID classes) during training and deployment, which limits performance in real-world scenarios where unseen classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Garvita Allabadi , Ana Lucic , Siddarth Aananth , Tiffany Yang , Yu-Xiong Wang , Vikram Adve

Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) aims to identify objects that blend seamlessly into their surroundings. The inherent visual complexity of camouflaged objects, including their low contrast with the background, diverse textures, and subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Chenxi Zhang , Qing Zhang , Jiayun Wu , Youwei Pang

Semi-Supervised Object Detection (SSOD) has achieved resounding success by leveraging unlabeled data to improve detection performance. However, in Open Scene Semi-Supervised Object Detection (O-SSOD), unlabeled data may contains unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Jingyu Zhuang , Kuo Wang , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

Object proposals have become an integral preprocessing steps of many vision pipelines including object detection, weakly supervised detection, object discovery, tracking, etc. Compared to the learning-free methods, learning-based proposals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Dahun Kim , Tsung-Yi Lin , Anelia Angelova , In So Kweon , Weicheng Kuo

Current Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) approaches are restricted to recognition of a single dominant unseen object category in a test image. We hypothesize that this setting is ill-suited for real-world applications where unseen objects appear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Shafin Rahman , Salman Khan , Fatih Porikli

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) aims at localizing and recognizing visual objects from novel classes unseen at the training time. Whereas, empirical studies reveal that advanced detectors generally assign lower scores to those novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Yanhao Zheng , Kai Liu

Object detection is essential to many perception algorithms used in modern robotics applications. Unfortunately, the existing models share a tendency to assign high confidence scores for out-of-distribution (OOD) samples. Although OOD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Bartłomiej Olber , Krystian Radlak , Krystian Chachuła , Jakub Łyskawa , Piotr Frątczak

The detection of unknown traffic obstacles is vital to ensure safe autonomous driving. The standard object-detection methods cannot identify unknown objects that are not included under predefined categories. This is because object-detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Chihiro Noguchi , Toshiaki Ohgushi , Masao Yamanaka

Open-world object detection (OWOD) is a challenging problem that combines object detection with incremental learning and open-set learning. Compared to standard object detection, the OWOD setting is task to: 1) detect objects seen during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Jinan Yu , Liyan Ma , Zhenglin Li , Yan Peng , Shaorong Xie

Open world object detection aims at detecting objects that are absent in the object classes of the training data as unknown objects without explicit supervision. Furthermore, the exact classes of the unknown objects must be identified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Na Dong , Yongqiang Zhang , Mingli Ding , Gim Hee Lee

Traditional object detection answers two questions; "what" (what the object is?) and "where" (where the object is?). "what" part of the object detection can be fine-grained further i.e. "what type", "what shape" and "what material" etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Addel Zafar , Umar Khalid

Open-set panoptic segmentation (OPS) problem is a new research direction aiming to perform segmentation for both \known classes and \unknown classes, i.e., the objects ("things") that are never annotated in the training set. The main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Hai-Ming Xu , Hao Chen , Lingqiao Liu , Yufei Yin

Object detection has achieved a huge breakthrough with deep neural networks and massive annotated data. However, current detection methods cannot be directly transferred to the scenario where the annotated data is scarce due to the severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Qihan Huang , Haofei Zhang , Mengqi Xue , Jie Song , Mingli Song

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

Unsupervised object discovery, the task of identifying and localizing objects in images without human-annotated labels, remains a significant challenge and a growing focus in computer vision. In this work, we introduce a novel model, DADO…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Federico Gonzalez , Estefania Talavera , Petia Radeva

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