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.
Knowledge-Intensive Visual Question Answering (KI-VQA) benchmarks evaluate Vision-Language Models (VLMs) as multimodal knowledge assistants by requiring external information beyond a provided image to answer questions. KI-VQA involves multiple sub-problems -referring expression understanding, visual grounding, object recognition, knowledge retrieval, and reasoning-yet existing benchmarks typically report only end-task accuracy, obscuring where failures arise.
arXiv:2607. 21155v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Knowledge-Intensive Visual Question Answering (KI-VQA) benchmarks evaluate Vision-Language Models (VLMs) as multimodal knowledge assistants by requiring external information beyond a provided image to answer questions.
By Hanseok Oh, Parishad BehnamGhader, Benno Krojer, Hyunji Lee, Paul Liang, Siva Reddy, Verna Dankers
arXiv:2607. 04548v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Novel category discovery aims to identify unseen classes from unlabeled data by transferring knowledge from labeled categories, but most existing methods perform discovery in opaque latent feature spaces.
By Ifrat Ikhtear Uddin, Yang Zhou, KC Santosh, Longwei Wang
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.
By Jae-Ryung Hong, Ho-Joong Kim, Seong-Whan Lee
Adapting CLIP for zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR) via prompt learning faces a fundamental tension: the model must bridge the sketch-photo domain gap through task-specific adaptation, yet the added flexibility risks overfitting to seen training categories and eroding CLIP's zero-shot generalization. We present SeCo-SBIR, a semantically consistent prompt learning framework that resolves this tension from both sides.
arXiv:2608. 07577v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A closed-set detector for autonomous driving must assign every object one of a fixed set of labels.
By Felix Schaller
arXiv:2608. 08308v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern vision systems must operate in "open-world" settings, where models must recognize known categories and detect unseen or anomalous content.
By Anastasios Romanos Varvarigos, Nikos Giakoumoglou, Tania Stathaki
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:2509. 14001v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Personalized object detection aims to adapt a general-purpose detector to recognize user-specific instances from only a few examples.
By Elena Camuffo, Francesco Barbato, Mete Ozay, Simone Milani, Umberto Michieli
arXiv:2606. 15134v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision encoders for retrieval are typically trained with class-label supervision: each training pair reduces to a scalar that uniformly pushes the embedding apart or pulls it together, as if every visual attribute either differed or matched.
By Shubhang Bhatnagar, Dheeraj Baiju, Narendra Ahuja
arXiv:2608. 09270v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-grained cross-modal understanding in drone views is essential for aerial vision-language navigation.
By Jiahui Cui, Yan Zhao, Kan Wei, Enze Zhu, Peirong Zhang, Lei Wang, Yiru Wang