arXiv:2603. 18481v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection remains a critical challenge in open-world learning, where models must adapt to evolving data distributions.
By Aditi Naiknaware, Salimeh Sekeh
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
arXiv:2507.21816v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Few-shot object detection (FSOD) for optical remote sensing images aims to detect rare objects with only a few annotated bounding boxes. The limited...
By Yanxing Liu, Jiancheng Pan, Bingchen Zhang
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
arXiv:2509. 04009v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Due to their powerful feature association capabilities, neural network-based computer vision models have the ability to detect and exploit unintended patterns within the data, potentially leading to correct predictions based on incorrect or unintended but statistically relevant signals.
By Solha Kang, Esla Timothy Anzaku, Wesley De Neve, Arnout Van Messem, Joris Vankerschaver, Francois Rameau, Utku Ozbulak
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. 00716v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust detection of generated images is critical to counter the misuse of generative models.
By Jun Nie, Yonggang Zhang, Tongliang Liu, Yiu-ming Cheung, Bo Han, Xinmei Tian
arXiv:2606. 12826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Moving instance segmentation (MIS) attracts increasing attention due to its broad applications in traffic surveillance, autonomous driving, and animal tracking.
By Hongxiang Huang, Hongwei Ren, Xiaopeng Lin, Yulong Huang, Zeke Xie, Bojun Cheng
arXiv:2606. 26734v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The impact of real-world noise on Open Vocabulary Object Detectors (OV-ODs) remains poorly understood due to their architectural complexity.
By Priyank Pathak, Mukilan Karuppasamy, Aaditya Baranwal, Shruti Vyas, Yogesh S Rawat
arXiv:2607. 13881v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human-object interaction detection (HOID) has traditionally been formulated as a supervised detection problem over predefined interaction categories.
By Ting Lei, Jialin Liu, Zhu Xu, Yuxin Peng, Yang Liu
arXiv:2503. 05169v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Applying machine learning to increasingly high-dimensional problems with sparse or biased training data increases the risk that a model is used on inputs outside its training domain.
By Felix Krumbiegel, Juniper Tyree, Michael Boy, Petri Clusius, Andreas Rupp
The paper surveys how commonsense reasoning is being integrated into computer vision, moving beyond traditional CNNs that only detect objects. It reviews methods that use knowledge graphs, scene graphs, neuro-symbolic models, and transformers to add contextual understanding, thereby improving object recognition and spatial reasoning. The authors also discuss current limitations such as dataset bias and knowledge gaps, and propose future research directions in cross‑modal reasoning, scalable knowledge injection, and hybrid architectures.
By Bahar Uddin Mahmud, Sumit Barua, Guan Yue Hong, Ajay Gupta, Hexu Liu