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  1. RT-DETR-World: Transferring Rich LLM Semantics to Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Detection

    Oct 7, 2026Yupeng Zhang, Ziyi Zhao, Juntao Cheng +4Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionReal-Time Object Detection

    Tianjin University. · Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology. · Shanghai Jiaotong University. +1

  2. Towards benchmarking Western Bluebird detection in the wild

    Oct 6, 2026Estela Monserrat Arriaga Santana, Julian Rosas Scull, Ibeth P. Alarcón +3Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionInstance Segmentation

    Universidad Nacional Aut´onoma de M´exico, Mexico · Universidad Aut´onoma de Tlaxcala, Mexico · The University of Texas at El Paso, USA and INAOE, Mexico

  3. Losing the name before the box: measuring and repairing what narrow fine-tuning costs a detector outside its deployment vocabulary

    Sep 29, 2026Trung Minh Bui, Jongsul Moon, YoungOuk Kim +2Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionCatastrophic Forgetting

    Intelligent Robotics Research Center, Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Seongnam, 13449, Republic of Korea.

  4. InterHier: Learning Interconnected Hierarchical Semantics for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection

    Sep 21, 2026Yeong-Jin Kim, Ho-Joong Kim, Seong-Whan LeeOpen-Vocabulary Object DetectionPrompt Learning

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea

  5. Efficient Unified Multimodal Understanding (EUMU): Winning Solution for the MUMU Track at the 8th LSVOS Challenge

    Sep 16, 2026Dayoung Kil, Seong-heum KimOpen-Vocabulary Object DetectionEfficient Multimodal Inference

    Department of Intelligent Semiconductors, Soongsil University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  6. Hyperbolic Geometry for Open-World Object Detection in Remote Sensing Imagery

    Sep 10, 2026Wuzhou Li, Jiawei Zhou, Shenghang Wang +1Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionContinual Learning

    School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430072, China · Electronic Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China · Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA +1

  7. Vague2Detect: Handling Ambiguous Prompts in Knowledge-Based Open-World Detection

    Sep 9, 2026Ibrohimjon Muminov, Jihie KimOpen-Vocabulary Object DetectionVision-Language Grounding

    Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea · Department of Computer Science and AI, Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea

  8. DroneGround: Open-Vocabulary Drone Payload Characterization Using Synthetic Data and Grounded Vision-Language Models

    Sep 7, 2026Ami Pandat, Rajasekhar Punna, Gopika Vinod +1Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionVision-Language Grounding

    Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  9. DESA-TTA: Dynamic EMA and Source Anchoring for Test-Time Adaptation

    Sep 1, 2026Atif Belal, Lilian Hollard, Marco Pedersoli +1Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionVLM Robustness

    LIVIA, ILLS, Dept. of Systems Engineering, ETS Montréal, Canada

  10. OPUS: A Simple yet Effective Unified Framework for Open-Vocabulary Detection

    Aug 31, 2026Xiaoyan Wei, Zhimin Yao, Ruilin Yang +4Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionVision-Language Grounding

    Megvii Technology Inc. · X-Humanoid

  11. Towards Sparsely Annotated Open-World Object Detection

    Aug 13, 2026HeeJu Han, AJeong Kim, Jinsun ParkOpen-Vocabulary Object DetectionObject Detection

    Pusan National University, Republic of Korea

  12. Class Geometry as Supervision for Sample-Efficient Open-World Detection

    Aug 13, 2026Akash Rao, Zhou Chen, Revanth Reddy Palem +3Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionPrototype-Based Classification

    CSSE Department, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, 36849 · Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 74078

  13. Open-World Hierarchical Perception: Taxonomic Abstraction over Class-Agnostic Proposals for the Safe Handling of Out-of-Vocabulary Road Objects

    Aug 4, 2026Felix SchallerOpen-Vocabulary Object DetectionHierarchical Classification

    Dubai, UAE / Munich, Germany

  14. OVEarth-Bench: Evaluating Category Breadth and Query Diversity for Open-Vocabulary Earth Observation

    Jul 29, 2026Kaiyu Li, Zepeng Xin, Zixuan Jiang +4VLM EvaluationOpen-Vocabulary Object Detection

    Xi’an Jiaotong University

  15. Attention from Above: A Multimodal Model for Drone-Based Object Localization

    Jul 20, 2026Hyun-Ki JungOpen-Vocabulary Object DetectionSmall Object Detection

    University of Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

  16. WeedExpert-R1: Incentivizing Botanical Reasoning in MLLMs with Reinforcement Learning for Precision Weed Grounding

    Jul 17, 2026Zonglin Yang, Wei-Zhen Liang, Nevin Lawrence +4Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionWeed Detection

    aDepartment of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA · bPanhandle Research and Extension Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Scottsbluff, NE, USA · cDepartment of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA +1

  17. Detector Confidence Signals Presence Rather Than Occlusion in Cluttered Manipulation

    Jul 15, 2026Yuanzhi HeOpen-Vocabulary Object DetectionOcclusion Reasoning

    School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University

  18. Confidence Scores in Open-Vocabulary Detection Are a Biased Mixture of Scale and Semantics

    Jul 13, 2026Yi Tang Soon, Jun-Wei HsiehOpen-Vocabulary Object DetectionObject Detection

    Institute of Intelligence Systems, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Tainan, Taiwan · College of Artificial Intelligence and Green Energy, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

  19. C-GAP: Class-Aware and Online Prompting Improves Vision-Language Models on Imbalanced Classes

    Jul 10, 2026Francis Fernandez, Arash Jahangiri, Salimeh SekehOpen-Vocabulary Object DetectionObject Detection

    San Diego State University

  20. VocaDet: Sample-Driven Open-Vocabulary Object Detection and Segmentation via Visual Tokenization and Vector Database Retrieval

    Jul 9, 2026ZhiXin SunOpen-Vocabulary Object DetectionVisual Tokenization

    PowerChina Zhongnan Engineering Corporation Limited

  21. REAL-OW: Rehearsal-free Open World Object Detection with Low-Rank Adaptation and Dual-Stage Objectness Modeling

    Jul 3, 2026Huazhong Zhang, Xiaowen Fu, Yang Zhang +2Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionContinual Learning

    Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

  22. ProCal: Inference-Time Proposal Calibration for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection

    Jul 2, 2026Jae-Ryung Hong, Ho-Joong Kim, Seong-Whan LeeOpen-Vocabulary Object DetectionVLM Inference

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Korea University, Anam-dong, Seongbuk-ku, Seoul 02841, Korea

  23. DroneFINE: Domain-Aware Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Vision-Language Detectors for Drone Images

    Jul 1, 2026Ke Wu, Yanan Zhang, Yingjie Gao +5Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionVLM Adaptation

    National College for Excellent Engineers, Beihang University, Beijing, China · School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China +2

  24. Identifying the Unknown: Prompt-Free Open Vocabulary Anomaly Recognition for Robot-Object Interaction

    Jun 25, 2026Philipp Allgeuer, Jan-Gerrit Habekost, Stefan WermterOpen-Vocabulary Object DetectionRobotic Perception

    Knowledge Technology, Dept. of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Germany

  25. Robust Onion: Peeling Open Vocab Object Detectors Under Noise

    Jun 25, 2026Priyank Pathak, Mukilan Karuppasamy, Aaditya Baranwal +2Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionVLM Robustness

    UCF Institute of Artificial Intelligence, University of Central Florida (UCF)

  26. VL-DINO: Leveraging CLIP Vision-Language Knowledge for Open-Vocabulary Object Detectio

    Jun 10, 2026Hao Zhang, Qinran Lin, Linqi Song +1Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionDetection Transformer

    Chongqing University, Chongqing, China · City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

  27. ExDet: Open-Domain Open-Vocabulary Detection with Cross-modal Extrapolation and Rectification

    Jun 8, 2026Yupeng Zhang, Yuzhong Feng, Ruize Han +3Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionObject Detection

  28. Unification of Closed-Open Industrial Detection Scenarios: New Large-Scale Benchmarks,Challenges and Baselines

    Jun 6, 2026Zekai Zhang, Jinglin Zhang, Qinghui Chen +8Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionVLM Adaptation

    School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250061, China · Shandong Computer Science Center, Qilu University of Technology, Jinan, China · CEREMADE, University Paris Dauphine, PSL Research University, CNRS, UMR 7534, 75775 Paris, France +4

  29. Unveiling the Unknown: Open Vocabulary Object Detection with Scene Graphs

    Jun 4, 2026Yi Chen, Yinghao Lu, Zhehao Li +4Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionGraph Reasoning

    Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315211, China · Faculty of Computing, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany · School of Software Technology, Zhejiang University, Ningbo 315000, China +1

  30. Ultralytics YOLO26: Unified Real-Time End-to-End Vision Models

    Jun 2, 2026Glenn Jocher, Jing Qiu, Mengyu Liu +3Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionInstance Segmentation

    Ultralytics