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

577 papers, page 4 of 12

151. NeurIPS 2026RelGS: Relation-Aware Gaussian Splatting for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding
152. NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Geometric Depth in Monocular 3D Object Detection: A Projection-Consistent Reformulation
153. NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Infrared Small Target Detection: A Foundation Driven Efficient Paradigm
154. NeurIPS 2026RETR: A Structure-Preserving RGB-Event Transformer for Robust 3D Lane Detection
155. NeurIPS 2026ROAD: Rule-Grounded Context-Aware Open-World Driver Anomaly Detection
156. NeurIPS 2026Scalable Token-Level Hallucination Detection in Large Language Models
157. NeurIPS 2026Stability-Weighted Direction Regularization Disentangles Generator Shortcuts from Detection Signal
158. NeurIPS 2026StomataBench: Measuring Taxonomic Generalization in Stomatal Detection
159. NeurIPS 2026Stranger Things: When Objects Appear Without Their Typical Neighbours
160. NeurIPS 2026Strengthen Out-of-Distribution Detection via Adaptive Mahalanobis Gap
161. NeurIPS 2026Surprisingly consistent failures of post-hoc OOD detectors reveal security concerns in open-set recognition with modern CNNs and ViTs, stemming from representation mismatch
162. NeurIPS 2026TACO: Towards Task-Consistent Open-Vocabulary Adaptation in Video Recognition
163. NeurIPS 2026TerraMesh-Masks: Open‑Vocabulary Segmentation for Earth Observation
164. NeurIPS 2026Towards Unified Dynamic Face Landmark Detection
165. NeurIPS 2026Training-Free Open World Object Detection
166. NeurIPS 2026When the Same Coefficients Reach Different Places: Asymmetric Realizability in Transplanting Tokenizers across Large Language Models
167. NeurIPS 2026WildBox: A Dataset and Benchmark for Aerial Monocular 3D Detection of African Savanna Wildlife
168. NeurIPS 2026Witness Overlap: Directional Provenance Inside Open-Weight Model Families
169. CVPR 2025Advancing Generalizable Tumor Segmentation with Anomaly-Aware Open-Vocabulary Attention Maps and Frozen Foundation Diffusion Models
170. CVPR 2025Anomize: Better Open Vocabulary Video Anomaly Detection
171. CVPR 2025BOOTPLACE: Bootstrapped Object Placement with Detection Transformers
172. CVPR 2025Brain-Inspired Spiking Neural Networks for Energy-Efficient Object Detection
173. CVPR 2025Compositional Caching for Training-free Open-vocabulary Attribute Detection
174. CVPR 2025Cross-Modal and Uncertainty-Aware Agglomeration for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding
175. CVPR 2025Cubify Anything: Scaling Indoor 3D Object Detection
176. CVPR 2025D^3: Scaling Up Deepfake Detection by Learning from Discrepancy
177. CVPR 2025DeCLIP: Decoupled Learning for Open-Vocabulary Dense Perception
178. CVPR 2025Detecting Open World Objects via Partial Attribute Assignment
179. CVPR 2025Detection-Friendly Nonuniformity Correction: A Union Framework for Infrared UAV Target Detection
180. CVPR 2025Distilling Spectral Graph for Object-Context Aware Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
181. CVPR 2025Distribution Prototype Diffusion Learning for Open-set Supervised Anomaly Detection
182. CVPR 2025DPSeg: Dual-Prompt Cost Volume Learning for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
183. CVPR 2025Dual Energy-Based Model with Open-World Uncertainty Estimation for Out-of-distribution Detection
184. CVPR 2025Dual Semantic Guidance for Open Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
185. CVPR 2025Dual-view X-ray Detection: Can AI Detect Prohibited Items from Dual-view X-ray Images like Humans?
186. CVPR 2025DynRefer: Delving into Region-level Multimodal Tasks via Dynamic Resolution
187. CVPR 2025Effective SAM Combination for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
188. CVPR 2025Ev-3DOD: Pushing the Temporal Boundaries of 3D Object Detection with Event Cameras
189. CVPR 2025Exploring Simple Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
190. CVPR 2025FASTer: Focal token Acquiring-and-Scaling Transformer for Long-term 3D Objection Detection
191. CVPR 2025Fine-Grained Image-Text Correspondence with Cost Aggregation for Open-Vocabulary Part Segmentation
192. CVPR 2025FIRE: Robust Detection of Diffusion-Generated Images via Frequency-Guided Reconstruction Error
193. CVPR 2025Forensic Self-Descriptions Are All You Need for Zero-Shot Detection, Open-Set Source Attribution, and Clustering of AI-generated Images
194. CVPR 2025Forensics Adapter: Adapting CLIP for Generalizable Face Forgery Detection
195. CVPR 2025Forensics-Bench: A Comprehensive Forgery Detection Benchmark Suite for Large Vision Language Models
196. CVPR 2025FreqDebias: Towards Generalizable Deepfake Detection via Consistency-Driven Frequency Debiasing
197. CVPR 2025FSHNet: Fully Sparse Hybrid Network for 3D Object Detection
198. CVPR 2025GREAT: Geometry-Intention Collaborative Inference for Open-Vocabulary 3D Object Affordance Grounding
199. CVPR 2025GROVE: A Generalized Reward for Learning Open-Vocabulary Physical Skill
200. CVPR 2025H2ST: Hierarchical Two-Sample Tests for Continual Out-of-Distribution Detection

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.