Background-Free Objectness Learning (B-FOR) is a dense, class‑agnostic detection framework that learns objectness without treating unlabeled regions as background. It predicts multi‑scale object‑center and scale fields, using spatially structured soft targets to supervise only reliable annotated areas and introduces displacement‑aware scale fields to model object extent. Experiments on PASCAL VOC, MS‑COCO, and Open Images show B‑FOR improves recall by over +10 AR points compared to prior class‑agnostic baselines, with ablation studies confirming the importance of localized supervision and displacement‑aware scaling.
arXiv:2607. 01759v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-vocabulary object detection aims to localize and classify objects beyond the fixed set of categories seen dur ing training.
arXiv:2609.39785v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Segment Anything Model (SAM) relies heavily on massive manual annotations, creating a fundamental bottleneck for model scaling. While unsupervised...
arXiv:2610.07326v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Universal object localization in X-ray security inspection is critical for automated threat detection in safety-critical venues. However, unlike everyd...
arXiv:2608.28216v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Locating a specific object instance in a cluttered scene using a single reference image and a short description, and reporting when that instance is ab...
Open-world object detection (OWOD) requires a detector to recognize known categories, discover unnamed objects from unseen categories, and incrementally learn newly annotated classes. PROB improves unknown discovery by modeling class-agnostic probabilistic objectness in the decoder-query space.
arXiv:2404. 10034v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL) allows training deep learning models for classification and localization (LOC) using only global class-level labels.
The paper introduces Structured Prior Knowledge (SPK), a framework that extracts and organizes latent priors from pretrained object detectors to improve out-of-distribution (OoD) detection. SPK uses in-distribution data and hallucination-inducing samples to elicit part-level semantic concepts, then combines these with geometric and contextual priors into a compact five-dimensional representation. Experiments across various detector architectures and OoD benchmarks show that SPK achieves state-of-the-art performance, demonstrating that pretrained detectors encode richer latent knowledge than previously exploited.
The paper introduces a biologically inspired framework that learns object‑centric visual representations from raw videos without human annotations or camera calibration. By using motion boundaries detected via optical flow and clustering to create pseudo‑instance masks, the method supervises a single‑image encoder with pixel‑level pairwise metric learning. Training on 195 million pseudo‑labeled frames and expanding to 421 million frames through Motion‑Verified Self‑Training, the approach yields Swin‑based encoders that outperform or match supervised and self‑supervised baselines on tasks such as monocular depth estimation, 3D object detection, 3D occupancy prediction, and end‑to‑end planning.
arXiv:2606. 00844v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bounding-box regression is a fundamental component of object detection, playing a critical role in precise object localization.
arXiv:2604.09045v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent works on 3D scene understanding leverage 2D masks from visual foundation models (VFMs) to supervise radiance fields, enabling instance-level...
The paper presents a semi‑supervised framework that uses open‑vocabulary object detectors to generate region proposals and semantic representations, builds an object‑level similarity graph, and propagates probabilistic labels to assign soft, uncertainty‑aware annotations to previously unlabeled objects. Experiments on four detection benchmarks show that high‑quality soft labels can be produced with only a small fraction of manual annotations, and models trained on these semi‑automatically annotated datasets achieve performance comparable to fully manually annotated models. On COCO, the method reaches 40.5% AP, nearly matching the 40.9% AP of a fully annotated model while incurring only 1% of the labeling cost.
arXiv:2605. 07821v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for ensuring the reliability of deep learning models.