arXiv Computer Vision By Hanlin Kou, Beiqi Bai, Li Chen, Youjia Jing, Shupan Li, Mingyuan Jiu

FocusOVD: Geometric and Contextual Feature Refinement for Open-Vocabulary Small-Object Detection

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FocusOVD is an open‑vocabulary object detector that improves small‑object detection by refining geometric and contextual features without altering the frozen vision‑language model backbone. It introduces a Reweighted Cross‑scale Feature Fusion module to balance shallow and deep features, a Residual Pinwheel‑shaped Gated Convolution module to enhance local geometry in high‑resolution features, and a Residual Convolutional Gated Linear Unit module to suppress background activations and boost region‑of‑interest discriminability. Experiments on COCO‑OVD and LVIS‑OVD show that FocusOVD outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods, achieving a novel‑category AP of 36.3% on COCO‑OVD and an overall AP of 33.7% on LVIS‑OVD.

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arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 25

MEVL-STP: Multi-Encoder and Vision Language Model for Arbitrarily Shaped Scene Text Spotting

MEVL-STP introduces a two‑stage pipeline for spotting arbitrarily shaped scene text. The detection stage fuses features from six frozen vision encoders via a hierarchical Feature Pyramid Network and a Progressive Scale Expansion network to produce precise polygon masks. The recognition stage then crops these masks and feeds them to a fine‑tuned Qwen3‑VL‑8B‑Instruct model, achieving state‑of‑the‑art detection and end‑to‑end performance on CTW1500, Total‑Text, and ICDAR 2015 without synthetic pretraining.

By Aman Anand, Partha Pratim Roy, Shivakumara Palaiahnakote