The paper introduces a framework for out-of-distribution (OOD) detection that addresses the trade‑off between detection performance and classification accuracy caused by fine‑tuning with auxiliary outlier data. It optimizes three factors—model reminder, data sampling, and representation learning—by proposing Self‑Knowledge Distillation to preserve accuracy, Semi‑hard Outlier Sampling to enhance detection with minimal data, and Outlier‑aware Supervised Contrastive Learning to improve ID‑OOD separability. The combined approach yields cumulative gains, outperforming existing methods on diverse benchmarks, especially in long‑tailed scenarios, and offers a robust baseline for real‑world OOD detection.
By Hyunjun Choi, JaeHo Chung, Hawook Jeong
Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection remains challenging for image classifiers, especially when near-OOD samples lie close to in-distribution (ID) class boundaries. Recent vision-language detectors imp...
arXiv:2608. 15802v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection remains challenging for image classifiers, especially when near-OOD samples lie close to in-distribution (ID) class boundaries.
By Chengyao Jia, Ruixuan Wang
The paper introduces Out-of-Distribution Semantic Occupancy Prediction, a task that focuses on detecting unknown objects in 3D voxel space for autonomous driving. It proposes Realistic Anomaly Augmentation to create two new datasets, VAA-KITTI and VAA-KITTI-360, and presents the OccOoD framework, which uses Cross‑Space Semantic Refinement to improve OoD detection while maintaining semantic occupancy accuracy. Experiments show OccOoD achieves an AuROC of 65.50% and an AuPRCr of 31.83% within a 1.2 m radius, demonstrating strong generalization to real‑world urban scenes.
By Yuheng Zhang, Mengfei Duan, Kunyu Peng, Yuhang Wang, Ruiping Liu, Fei Teng, Kai Luo, Zhiyong Li, Kailun Yang
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.
By Changshun Wu, Weicheng He, Xiaowei Huang, Saddek Bensalem
CODE: Cross-Modal Calibration and Dynamic Suppression for Open World Object Detection introduces a unified inference-time framework that addresses semantic ambiguity and over-suppression in multimodal OWOD systems. It comprises Cross-Modal Joint Confidence Calibration, Uncertainty-Guided Universal Objectness Enhancement, and Dynamic Outlier Suppression via Confidence Margin. Experiments on the Real-World Detection benchmark with the OWL‑ViT L/14 backbone show CODE achieving 21.7 U‑mAP and 40.8 K‑mAP, surpassing prior state‑of‑the‑art results by 2.6 and 2.3 points respectively.
By Hao Xu, Zhaoning Shi, Hehe Jin, Bo Ma
The paper proposes a modular training pipeline for zero‑shot cross‑city object detection that combines a multi‑dataset pre‑training strategy with class‑agnostic objectness distillation and a domain‑resilient augmentation stream featuring a Grayworld transformation. Applied to the RF‑DETR detector, the approach reduces cross‑city distribution gaps while using only 16 GB GPU memory, achieving a 24.29‑point mAP improvement and 1st place on the AI City Challenge Track 6 leaderboard. The authors provide code and data at the referenced GitHub repository.
By Long Hoang Pham, Quoc Pham-Nam Ho, Huy-Hung Nguyen, Duong Nguyen-Ngoc Tran, Ngoc Doan-Minh Huynh, Cu Quoc Le, Hoang-Khang Nguyen, Hyung-Min Jeon, Chi Dai Tran, Son Hong Phan, Duong Khac Vu, Trinh Le Ba Khanh, Jae Wook Jeon
arXiv:2609.28239v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: With the development of applications like autonomous driving, object detection has gained significant attention, while also highlighting critical vulne...
By Li Zeng, Mingcheng Duan, Longfei Fan, Hangtao Zhang, Xianlong Wang, Yanchun Li, Xia Wen, Leo Yu Zhang
arXiv:2602. 03018v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Outlier detection (OD) is widely used in practice; but its effective deployment on new tasks is hindered by lack of labeled outliers, which makes algorithm and hyperparameter selection notoriously hard.
By Xueying Ding, Haomin Wen, Simon Kl\"uttermann, Leman Akoglu
arXiv:2605. 07821v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for ensuring the reliability of deep learning models.
By Boyang Dai, Chaoqi Chen, Yizhou Yu
With the development of applications like autonomous driving, object detection has gained significant attention, while also highlighting critical vulnerabilities like backdoor attacks that severely co...
arXiv:2602. 18094v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing Visual-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved significant progress by being trained on massive-scale datasets, typically under the assumption that data are independent and identically distributed (IID).
By Ling Lin, Yang Bai, Heng Su, Congcong Zhu, Yaoxing Wang, Yang Zhou, Huazhu Fu, Jingrun Chen