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:2509.24192v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced multimodal perception, demonstrated by open-vocabulary object detection with simple language queries. S...
By Sojung An, Kwanyong Park, Yong Jae Lee, Donghyun Kim
arXiv:2607. 23981v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-world object detection (OWOD) requires a detector to recognize known categories, discover unnamed objects from unseen categories, and incrementally learn newly annotated classes.
By Weijun Tian, Rui Liu
Real-world detectors must often interpret functional or ambiguous prompts, yet conventional models such as YOLO remain restricted to fixed class lists. Even open-vocabulary models like YOLO-World freq...
Vague2Detect is a hybrid pipeline that improves object detection for ambiguous prompts by combining a fine‑tuned Sentence‑BERT to retrieve candidates from a structured household knowledge base, YOLO‑World to verify their presence in images, and a GPT‑3.5‑turbo fallback to generate new candidate descriptions when prompts fall outside the knowledge base. On a benchmark of household scenes, Vague2Detect raises the vague prompt success rate from 32% (YOLO‑World alone) to 61% with high precision, and up to 85% when the GPT fallback is used.
By Ibrohimjon Muminov (Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea), Jihie Kim (Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea)
arXiv:2511. 10260v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Fine-Grained Visual Classification (FGVC) remains a challenging task due to subtle inter-class differences and large intra-class variations.
By Yongji Zhang, Siqi Li, Kuiyang Huang, Yue Gao, Yu Jiang
arXiv:2603. 26798v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language model (VLM) encoders such as CLIP enable strong retrieval and zero-shot classification in a shared image-text embedding space, yet the semantic organization of this space is rarely inspected.
By Gesina Schwalbe, Mert Keser, Moritz Bayerkuhnlein, Edgar Heinert, Annika M\"utze, Marvin Keller, Sparsh Tiwari, Georgii Mikriukov, Diedrich Wolter, Jae Hee Lee, Matthias Rottmann
arXiv:2607. 02909v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Taxonomies provide key information about the semantic relationships between concepts and the inherent organization of vision and language.
By Hulingxiao He, Zhi Tan, Yuxin Peng
arXiv:2607. 08541v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-vocabulary object detection and segmentation aim to recognize arbitrary objects beyond predefined categories.
By ZhiXin Sun
arXiv:2608.21937v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Incremental Object Detection (IOD) aims to enable detectors to continuously learn novel categories while preserving previously acquired knowledge. Howe...
By Lecheng Xu, Feifei Shao, Ouyangzi Ye, Zhen Wang, Lin Li, Kexin Li, Zhao Wang, Changqin Huang
arXiv:2608.30247v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent unified open-vocabulary detection (OVD) supports heterogeneous prompts, including text queries, visual exemplars, and their combinations, but of...
By Xiaoyan Wei, Zhimin Yao, Ruilin Yang, Wei Zhang, Yong Dai, Yi Zhang, Wei Ge
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.
By Dania Batool, Liliana Lo Presti, Marco La Cascia, Filippo Vella