CVPR 2025 Papers

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Decision breakdown

2,872papers

Counted from the official paper list; may differ slightly from the number the conference announced.

  • Poster
    2,46885.9%
  • Other / unlabeled
    40414.1%

Browse all papers

Dual Energy-Based Model with Open-World Uncertainty Estimation for Out-of-distribution Detection

Qi Chen, Hu Ding

Expand abstract

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for machine learning models deployed in open-world environments. However, existing methods often struggle with model over-confidence or rely heavily on empirical energy value estimation, limiting their scalability and generalizability. This paper introduces DEBO (Dual Energy-Based Model for Out-of-distribution Detection), a novel approach that addresses these limitations through an innovative dual classifier architecture and a unified energy-based objective function. DEBO enhances the standard classification framework by integrating a dual-purpose output space within a single classifier. The primary component classifies in-distribution (ID) data conventionally, while the secondary component captures open-world information and estimates uncertainty. Our method overcomes the dependence of traditional energy model-based OOD detection methods on empirical energy estimation while maintaining theoretical guarantees. Theoretical analysis demonstrates that DEBO promotes low energy and high confidence for ID data, while simultaneously inducing higher energy and decreased confidence for OOD samples. Extensive experiments conducted on benchmark datasets reveal that DEBO achieves state-of-the-art OOD detection performance while maintaining comparable classification accuracy on ID data.

Poster
Distribution Prototype Diffusion Learning for Open-set Supervised Anomaly Detection

Fuyun Wang, Tong Zhang, Yuanzhi Wang, Yide Qiu, Xin Liu, Xu Guo, Zhen Cui

Expand abstract

In Open-set Supervised Anomaly Detection (OSAD), the existing methods typically generate pseudo anomalies to compensate for the scarcity of observed anomaly samples, while overlooking critical priors of normal samples, leading to less effective discriminative boundaries. To address this issue, we propose a Distribution Prototype Diffusion Learning (DPDL) method aimed at enclosing normal samples within a compact and discriminative distribution space. Specifically, we construct multiple learnable Gaussian prototypes to create a latent representation space for abundant and diverse normal samples and learn a Schr"odinger bridge to facilitate a diffusive transition toward these prototypes for normal samples while steering anomaly samples away. Moreover, to enhance inter-sample separation, we design a dispersion feature learning way in hyperspherical space, which benefits the identification of out-ofdistribution anomalies. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of our proposed DPDL, achieving state-of-the-art performance on 9 public datasets.

Poster
Distilling Spectral Graph for Object-Context Aware Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

Chanyoung Kim, Dayun Ju, Woojung Han, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Seong Jae Hwang

Expand abstract

Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation (OVSS) has advanced with recent vision-language models (VLMs), enabling segmentation beyond predefined categories through various learning schemes. Notably, training-free methods offer scalable, easily deployable solutions for handling unseen data, a key goal of OVSS. Yet, a critical issue persists: lack of object-level context consideration when segmenting complex objects in the challenging environment of OVSS based on arbitrary query prompts. This oversight limits models' ability to group semantically consistent elements within object and map them precisely to user-defined arbitrary classes. In this work, we introduce a novel approach that overcomes this limitation by incorporating object-level contextual knowledge within images. Specifically, our model enhances intra-object consistency by distilling spectral-driven features from vision foundation models into the attention mechanism of the visual encoder, enabling semantically coherent components to form a single object mask. Additionally, we refine the text embeddings with zero-shot object presence likelihood to ensure accurate alignment with the specific objects represented in the images. By leveraging object-level contextual knowledge, our proposed approach achieves state-of-the-art performance with strong generalizability across diverse datasets.

Poster
Detection-Friendly Nonuniformity Correction: A Union Framework for Infrared UAV Target Detection

Houzhang Fang, Xiaolin Wang, Zengyang Li, Lu Wang, Qingshan Li, Yi Chang, Luxin Yan

Expand abstract

Infrared unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images captured using thermal detectors are often affected by temperature-dependent low-frequency nonuniformity, which significantly reduces the contrast of the images. Detecting UAV targets under nonuniform conditions is crucial in UAV surveillance applications. Existing methods typically treat infrared nonuniformity correction (NUC) as a preprocessing step for detection, which leads to suboptimal performance. Balancing the two tasks while enhancing detection-beneficial information remains challenging. In this paper, we present a detection-friendly union framework, termed UniCD, that simultaneously addresses both infrared NUC and UAV target detection tasks in an end-to-end manner. We first model NUC as a small number of parameter estimation problem jointly driven by priors and data to generate detection-conducive images. Then, we incorporate a new auxiliary loss with target mask supervision into the backbone of the infrared UAV target detection network to strengthen target features while suppressing the background. To better balance correction and detection, we introduce a detection-guided self-supervised loss to reduce feature discrepancies between the two tasks, thereby enhancing detection robustness to varying nonuniformity levels. Additionally, we construct a new benchmark composed of 50,000 infrared images in various nonuniformity types, multi-scale UAV targets and rich backgrounds with target annotations, called IRBFD. Extensive experiments on IRBFD demonstrate that our UniCD is a robust union framework for NUC and UAV target detection while achieving real-time processing capabilities. Dataset can be available at https://github.com/IVPLaboratory/UniCD.

Highlight
Detecting Open World Objects via Partial Attribute Assignment

Muli Yang, Gabriel James Goenawan, Huaiyuan Qin, Kai Han, Xi Peng, Yanhua Yang, Hongyuan Zhu

Expand abstract

Despite being trained on massive data, today's vision foundation models still fall short in detecting open world objects. Apart from recognizing known objects from training, a successful Open World Object Detection (OWOD) system must also be able to detect unknown objects never seen before, without confusing them with the backgrounds. Unlike prevailing prior works that rely on probability models to learn "objectness", we focus on learning fine-grained, class-agnostic attributes, allowing the detection of both known and unknown objects in an explainable manner. In this paper, we propose Partial Attribute Assignment (PASS), aiming to automatically select and optimize a small, relevant subset of attributes from a large attribute pool. Specifically, we model attribute selection as a Partial Optimal Transport (POT) problem between known visual objects and the attribute pool, in which more relevant attributes signify more transported mass. PASS follows a curriculum schedule that progressively selects and optimizes a targeted subset of attributes during training, promoting stability and accuracy. Our method enjoys end-to-end optimization by minimizing the POT distance and the classification loss on known visual objects, demonstrating high training efficiency and superior OWOD performance among extensive experimental evaluations.

Poster
DeCLIP: Decoupled Learning for Open-Vocabulary Dense Perception

Junjie Wang, Bin CHEN, Yulin Li, Bin Kang, Yichi Chen, Zhuotao Tian

Expand abstract

Dense visual prediction tasks have been constrained by their reliance on predefined categories, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios where visual concepts are unbounded. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP have shown promise in open-vocabulary tasks, their direct application to dense prediction often leads to suboptimal performance due to limitations in local feature representation. In this work, we present our observation that CLIP's image tokens struggle to effectively aggregate information from spatially or semantically related regions, resulting in features that lack local discriminability and spatial consistency. To address this issue, we propose DeCLIP, a novel framework that enhances CLIP by decoupling the self-attention module to obtain "content" and "context" features respectively. The "content" features are aligned with image crop representations to improve local discriminability, while "context" features learn to retain the spatial correlations under the guidance of vision foundation models, such as DINO. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DeCLIP significantly outperforms existing methods across multiple open-vocabulary dense prediction tasks, including object detection and semantic segmentation. Code is available at https://github.com/xiaomoguhz/DeCLIP.

Poster
D^3: Scaling Up Deepfake Detection by Learning from Discrepancy

Yongqi Yang, Zhihao Qian, Ye Zhu, Olga Russakovsky, Yu Wu

Expand abstract

The boom of Generative AI brings opportunities entangled with risks and concerns. Existing literature emphasizes the generalization capability of deepfake detection on unseen generators, significantly promoting the detector's ability to identify more universal artifacts. This work seeks a step toward a universal deepfake detection system with better generalization and robustness. We do so by first scaling up the existing detection task setup from the one-generator to multiple-generators in training, during which we disclose two challenges presented in prior methodological designs and demonstrate the divergence of detectors' performance. Specifically, we reveal that the current methods tailored for training on one specific generator either struggle to learn comprehensive artifacts from multiple generators or sacrifice their fitting ability for seen generators (i.e., In-Domain (ID) performance) to exchange the generalization for unseen generators (i.e., Out-Of-Domain (OOD) performance). To tackle the above challenges, we propose our Discrepancy Deepfake Detector (D3) framework, whose core idea is to deconstruct the universal artifacts from multiple generators by introducing a parallel network branch that takes a distorted image feature as an extra discrepancy signal and supplements its original counterpart. Extensive scaled-up experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of D3, achieving 5.3% accuracy improvement in the OOD testing compared to the current SOTA methods while maintaining the ID performance. The source code will be updated in our GitHub repository: https://github.com/BigAandSmallq/D3.

Poster
DPSeg: Dual-Prompt Cost Volume Learning for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

Ziyu Zhao, Xiaoguang Li, Lingjia Shi, Nasrin Imanpour, Song Wang

Expand abstract

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims to segment images into distinct semantic regions for both seen and unseen categories at the pixel level. Current methods utilize text embeddings from pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP but struggle with the inherent domain gap between image and text embeddings, even after extensive alignment during training. Additionally, relying solely on deep text-aligned features limits shallow-level feature guidance, which is crucial for detecting small objects and fine details, ultimately reducing segmentation accuracy. To address these limitations, we propose a dual prompting framework, DPSeg, for this task. Our approach combines dual-prompt cost volume generation, a cost volume-guided decoder, and a semantic-guided prompt refinement strategy that leverages our dual prompting scheme to mitigate alignment issues in visual prompt generation. By incorporating visual embeddings from a visual prompt encoder, our approach reduces the domain gap between text and image embeddings while providing multi-level guidance through shallow features. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art approaches on multiple public datasets.

Poster
Cubify Anything: Scaling Indoor 3D Object Detection

Justin Lazarow, David Griffiths, Gefen Kohavi, Francisco Crespo, Afshin Dehghan

Expand abstract

We consider indoor 3D object detection with respect to a single RGB(-D) frame acquired from a commodity handheld device. We seek to significantly advance the status quo with respect to both data and modeling. First, we establish that existing datasets have significant limitations to scale, accuracy, and diversity of objects. As a result, we introduce the Cubify-Anything 1M (CA-1M) dataset, which exhaustively labels over 400K 3D objects on over 1K highly accurate laser-scanned scenes with near-perfect registration to over 3.5K handheld, egocentric captures. Next, we establish Cubify Transformer (CuTR), a fully Transformer 3D object detection baseline which rather than operating in 3D on point or voxel-based representations, predicts 3D boxes directly from 2D features derived from RGB(-D) inputs. While this approach lacks any 3D inductive biases, we show that paired with CA-1M, CuTR outperforms point-based methods, accurately recalling over 62% of objects in 3D, and is significantly more capable at handling noise and uncertainty present in commodity LiDAR-derived depth maps while also providing promising RGB only performance without architecture changes. Furthermore, by pre-training on CA-1M, CuTR can outperform point-based methods on a more diverse variant of SUN RGB-D, supporting the notion that while inductive biases in 3D are useful at the smaller sizes of existing datasets, they fail to scale to the data-rich regime of CA-1M. Overall, this dataset and baseline model provide strong evidence that we are moving towards models which can effectively Cubify Anything.

Highlight
Cross-Modal and Uncertainty-Aware Agglomeration for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding

Jinlong Li, Cristiano Saltori, Fabio Poiesi, Nicu Sebe

Expand abstract

The lack of a large-scale 3D-text corpus has led recent works to distill open-vocabulary knowledge from vision-language models (VLMs). However, these methods typically rely on a single VLM to align the feature spaces of 3D models within a common language space, which limits the potential of 3D models to leverage the diverse spatial and semantic capabilities encapsulated in various foundation models. In this paper, we propose Cross-modal and Uncertainty-aware Agglomeration for Open-vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding dubbed CUA-O3D, the first model to integrate multiple foundation models--such as CLIP, DINOv2, and Stable Diffusion--into 3D scene understanding. We further introduce a deterministic uncertainty estimation to adaptively distill and harmonize the heterogeneous 2D feature embeddings from these models. Our method addresses two key challenges: (1) incorporating semantic priors from VLMs alongside the geometric knowledge of spatially-aware vision foundation models, and (2) using a novel deterministic uncertainty estimation to capture model-specific uncertainties across diverse semantic and geometric sensitivities, helping to reconcile heterogeneous representations during training. Extensive experiments on ScanNetV2 and Matterport3D demonstrate that our method not only advances open-vocabulary segmentation but also achieves robust cross-domain alignment and competitive spatial perception capabilities.

Poster
Compositional Caching for Training-free Open-vocabulary Attribute Detection

Marco Garosi, Alessandro Conti, Gaowen Liu, Elisa Ricci, Massimiliano Mancini

Expand abstract

Attribute detection is crucial for many computer vision tasks, as it enables systems to describe properties such as color, texture, and material. Current approaches often rely on labor-intensive annotation processes which are inherently limited: objects can be described at an arbitrary level of detail (e.g., color vs. color shades), leading to ambiguities when the annotators are not instructed carefully. Furthermore, they operate within a predefined set of attributes, reducing scalability and adaptability to unforeseen downstream applications. We present Compositional Caching (ComCa), a training-free method for open-vocabulary attribute detection that overcomes these constraints. ComCa requires only the list of target attributes and objects as input, using them to populate an auxiliary cache of images by leveraging web-scale databases and Large Language Models to determine attribute-object compatibility. To account for the compositional nature of attributes, cache images receive soft attribute labels. Those are aggregated at inference time based on the similarity between the input and cache images, refining the predictions of underlying Vision-Language Models (VLMs). Importantly, our approach is model-agnostic, compatible with various VLMs. Experiments on public datasets demonstrate that ComCa significantly outperforms zero-shot and cache-based baselines, competing with recent training-based methods, proving that a carefully designed training-free approach can successfully address open-vocabulary attribute detection.

Highlight
Brain-Inspired Spiking Neural Networks for Energy-Efficient Object Detection

Ziqi Li, Tao Gao, Yisheng An, Ting Chen, Jing Zhang, Yuanbo Wen, Mengkun Liu, Qianxi Zhang

Expand abstract

Brain-inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs) have the capability of energy-efficient processing of temporal information. However, leveraging the rich dynamic characteristics of SNNs and prior works in artificial neural networks (ANNs) to construct an effective object detection model for visual tasks remains an open question for further exploration. To develop a directly-trained , low energy consumption and high-performance multi-scale SNN model, we propose a novel interpretable object detection framework Multi-scale Spiking Detector (MSD). Initially, we propose a spiking convolutional neuron as a core component of the Optic Nerve Nucleus Block (ONNB), designed to significantly enhance the deep feature extraction capabilities of SNNs. ONNB enables direct training with improved energy efficiency, demonstrating superior performance compared to state-of-the-art ANN-to-SNN conversion and SNN techniques. In addition, we propose a Multi-scale Spiking Detection Framework to emulate the biological response and comprehension of stimuli from different objects. Wherein, spiking multi-scale fusion and the spiking detector are employed to integrate features across different depths and to detect response outcomes, respectively. Our method outperforms state-of-the-art ANN detectors, with only 7.8 M parameters and 6.43 mJ energy consumption. MSD obtains the mean average precision (mAP) of 62.0% and 66.3% on COCO and Gen1 datasets, respectively.

Poster
BOOTPLACE: Bootstrapped Object Placement with Detection Transformers

Hang Zhou, Xinxin Zuo, Rui Ma, Li Cheng

Expand abstract

In this paper, we tackle the copy-paste image-to-image composition problem with a focus on object placement learning. Prior methods have leveraged generative models to reduce the reliance for dense supervision. However, this often limits their capacity to model complex data distributions. Alternatively, transformer networks with a sparse contrastive loss have been explored, but their over-relaxed regularization often leads to imprecise object placement. We introduce BOOTPLACE, a novel paradigm that formulates object placement as a placement-by-detection problem. Our approach begins by identifying suitable regions of interest for object placement. This is achieved by training a specialized detection transformer on object-subtracted backgrounds, enhanced with multi-object supervisions. It then semantically associates each target compositing object with detected regions based on their complementary characteristics. Through a boostrapped training approach applied to randomly object-subtracted images, our model enforces meaningful placements through extensive paired data augmentation. Experimental results on established benchmarks demonstrate BOOTPLACE's superior performance in object repositioning, markedly surpassing state-of-the-art baselines on Cityscapes and OPA datasets with notable improvements in IOU scores. Additional ablation studies further showcase the compositionality and generalizability of our approach, supported by user study evaluations. Code is available at https://github.com/RyanHangZhou/BOOTPLACE

Poster
Advancing Generalizable Tumor Segmentation with Anomaly-Aware Open-Vocabulary Attention Maps and Frozen Foundation Diffusion Models

Yankai Jiang, Peng Zhang, Donglin Yang, Yuan Tian, Hai Lin, Xiaosong Wang

Expand abstract

We explore Generalizable Tumor Segmentation, aiming to train a single model for zero-shot tumor segmentation across diverse anatomical regions. Existing methods face limitations related to segmentation quality, scalability, and the range of applicable imaging modalities. In this paper, we uncover the potential of the internal representations within frozen medical foundation diffusion models as highly efficient zero-shot learners for tumor segmentation by introducing a novel framework named DiffuGTS. DiffuGTS creates anomaly-aware open-vocabulary attention maps based on text prompts to enable generalizable anomaly segmentation without being restricted by a predefined training category list. To further improve and refine anomaly segmentation masks, DiffuGTS leverages the diffusion model, transforming pathological regions into high-quality pseudo-healthy counterparts through latent space inpainting, and applies a novel pixel-level and feature-level residual learning approach, resulting in segmentation masks with significantly enhanced quality and generalization. Comprehensive experiments on four datasets and seven tumor categories demonstrate the superior performance of our method, surpassing current state-of-the-art models across multiple zero-shot settings. Codes are available at https://github.com/Yankai96/DiffuGTS.

Poster