Open-Vocabulary Detection papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Open-Vocabulary Detection went from 111 papers in 2023 to 168 in 2026, roughly 1.5x in three years.
• CVPR publishes the most Open-Vocabulary Detection work: 294 papers from 2023 to 2026, 51% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Open-Domain QA: papers tagged with both rose from 8 in 2023 to 22 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Open-Vocabulary Vision, it ranks #2 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Visual Grounding, is up 4.3x versus 1.5x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026At FullTilt: Real-Time Open-Set 3D Macromolecule Detection Directly from Tilted 2D Projections
• ICML 2026An In-Depth Study on Deep Learning Model Cloning
• ICLR 2026DeCo-DETR: Decoupled Cognition DETR for efficient Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
• CVPR 2026ANTS Adaptive Negative Textual Space Shaping for OOD Detection via
• NeurIPS 2025Beyond the Seen: Bounded Distribution Estimation for Open-Vocabulary Learning
• ICML 2025Position: We Can’t Understand AI Using our Existing Vocabulary
• ICLR 20253D-AffordanceLLM: Harnessing Large Language Models for Open-Vocabulary Affordance Detection in 3D Worlds
• CVPR 2025Anomize: Better Open Vocabulary Video Anomaly Detection
• NeurIPS 2024DreamCatcher: A Wearer-aware Multi-modal Sleep Event Dataset Based on Earables in Non-restrictive Environments
• ICML 2024Binary Decomposition: A Problem Transformation Perspective for Open-Set Semi-Supervised Learning
• ICLR 2024FROSTER: Frozen CLIP is A Strong Teacher for Open-Vocabulary Action Recognition
• CVPR 2024DetCLIPv3: Towards Versatile Generative Open-vocabulary Object Detection
• NeurIPS 2023AttrSeg: Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation via Attribute Decomposition-Aggregation
• ICML 2023Internet Explorer: Targeted Representation Learning on the Open Web
• ICLR 2023Adaptive Robust Evidential Optimization For Open Set Detection from Imbalanced Data
• CVPR 2023Being Comes From Not-Being: Open-Vocabulary Text-to-Motion Generation With Wordless Training
• NeurIPS 2026CompleteRXN: Toward Completing Open Chemical Reaction Databases
• ICML 2026Learning Attribute–Affordance Hierarchies in Hyperbolic Space for Open-Vocabulary 3D Object Affordance Grounding
• ICLR 2026DETR-ViP: Detection Transformer with Robust Discriminative Visual Prompts
• CVPR 2026Bypassing the Transport Plan Dynamic Reweighting for Out-of-Distribution Detection with

All Open-Vocabulary Detection papers

294 papers, page 2 of 6

51. CVPR 2026QueryMe Query-Driven Open-Vocabulary 3D Object Affordances Grounding from Multimodal Evidence
52. CVPR 2026RankOOD - Class Ranking-based Out-of-Distribution Detection
53. CVPR 2026ReAttnCLIP Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Remote Sensing Image Segmentation via Re-defined Attention
54. CVPR 2026Reconstructing CLIP for Open-Vocabulary Dense Perception
55. CVPR 2026ReManNet A Riemannian Manifold Network for Monocular 3D Lane Detection
56. CVPR 2026RHCNet Residual-Guided Hierarchical Calibration Network for Robust Underwater Object Detection
57. CVPR 2026S2C2Seg Semantic-Spatial Consistency and Category Optimization for Open-Vocabulary Segmentation
58. CVPR 2026Scene Reconstruction as Mapping Priors for 3D Detection
59. CVPR 2026SDDF Specificity-Driven Dynamic Focusing for Open-Vocabulary Camouflaged Object Detection
60. CVPR 2026Seeing as Experts Do A Knowledge-Augmented Agent for Open-Set Fine-Grained
61. CVPR 2026Seeing Both Sides Towards Bidirectional Semantic Alignment for Open-Vocabulary Camouflaged
62. CVPR 2026Similarity-Consistent Likelihood Diffusion enables Hidden Person Detection from Wall Reflections
63. CVPR 2026SPAR Single-Pass Any-Resolution ViT for Open-vocabulary Segmentation
64. CVPR 2026SRA-Det Learning Omni-Grained Open-Vocabulary Detection Beyond Category Names
65. CVPR 2026SRGCD Stability-Driven Region Growth Framework for 3D Change Detection
66. CVPR 2026Streamlined Open-Vocabulary Human-Object Interaction Detection
67. CVPR 2026SynCLIP Synonym-Coherent Language-Image Pretraining for Robust Open-Vocabulary Dense Perception
68. CVPR 2026Test-Time Multi-Prompt Adaptation for Open-Vocabulary Remote Sensing Image Segmentation
69. CVPR 2026The Invisible Gorilla Effect in Out-of-distribution Detection
70. CVPR 2026The Power of Prior Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation with LLaVA
71. CVPR 2026Thermal-Det Language-Guided Cross-Modal Distillation for Open-Vocabulary Thermal Object Detection
72. CVPR 2026Towards Open-Vocabulary Industrial Defect Understanding with a Large-Scale Multimodal Dataset
73. CVPR 2026Towards Persistence Learning Topological Constraints for Event-based Small Object Detection
74. CVPR 2026Training-free Detection of Generated Videos via Spatial-Temporal Likelihoods
75. CVPR 2026Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Camouflaged Object Segmentation via Fine-Grained Object Binding and
76. CVPR 2026TTL Test-time Textual Learning for OOD Detection with Pretrained Vision-Language
77. CVPR 2026UniChange Unifying Change Detection with Multimodal Large Language Model
78. CVPR 2026VisualAD Language-Free Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection via Vision Transformer
79. CVPR 2026ViTPrompt Training-Free Prompt Refinement with Visual Tokens for Open-Vocabulary Detection
80. CVPR 2026Vocabulary Scaling Law Tuning Open-vocabulary Predictors for Their Openness
81. CVPR 2026WeDetect Fast Open-Vocabulary Object Detection as Retrieval
82. CVPR 2026Zoo3D Zero-Shot 3D Object Detection at Scene Level
83. CVPR 2025Advancing Generalizable Tumor Segmentation with Anomaly-Aware Open-Vocabulary Attention Maps and Frozen Foundation Diffusion Models
84. CVPR 2025Anomize: Better Open Vocabulary Video Anomaly Detection
85. CVPR 2025BOOTPLACE: Bootstrapped Object Placement with Detection Transformers
86. CVPR 2025Brain-Inspired Spiking Neural Networks for Energy-Efficient Object Detection
87. CVPR 2025Compositional Caching for Training-free Open-vocabulary Attribute Detection
88. CVPR 2025Cross-Modal and Uncertainty-Aware Agglomeration for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding
89. CVPR 2025Cubify Anything: Scaling Indoor 3D Object Detection
90. CVPR 2025D^3: Scaling Up Deepfake Detection by Learning from Discrepancy
91. CVPR 2025DeCLIP: Decoupled Learning for Open-Vocabulary Dense Perception
92. CVPR 2025Detecting Open World Objects via Partial Attribute Assignment
93. CVPR 2025Detection-Friendly Nonuniformity Correction: A Union Framework for Infrared UAV Target Detection
94. CVPR 2025Distilling Spectral Graph for Object-Context Aware Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
95. CVPR 2025Distribution Prototype Diffusion Learning for Open-set Supervised Anomaly Detection
96. CVPR 2025DPSeg: Dual-Prompt Cost Volume Learning for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
97. CVPR 2025Dual Energy-Based Model with Open-World Uncertainty Estimation for Out-of-distribution Detection
98. CVPR 2025Dual Semantic Guidance for Open Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
99. CVPR 2025Dual-view X-ray Detection: Can AI Detect Prohibited Items from Dual-view X-ray Images like Humans?
100. CVPR 2025DynRefer: Delving into Region-level Multimodal Tasks via Dynamic Resolution

FAQ

How many Open-Vocabulary Detection papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

577 in total: 111 in 2023, 144 in 2024, 154 in 2025, 168 in 2026.

How many Open-Vocabulary Detection papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 42 Open-Vocabulary Detection papers, versus 41 the year before.

How many Open-Vocabulary Detection papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 22 Open-Vocabulary Detection papers, versus 24 the year before.

How many Open-Vocabulary Detection papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 22 Open-Vocabulary Detection papers, versus 14 the year before.

How many Open-Vocabulary Detection papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 82 Open-Vocabulary Detection papers, versus 75 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Open-Vocabulary Detection papers?

CVPR, with 294 papers from 2023 to 2026.