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 5 of 12

201. CVPR 2025Learning Endogenous Attention for Incremental Object Detection
202. CVPR 2025Leveraging 3D Geometric Priors in 2D Rotation Symmetry Detection
203. CVPR 2025Leveraging Perturbation Robustness to Enhance Out-of-Distribution Detection
204. CVPR 2025LLMDet: Learning Strong Open-Vocabulary Object Detectors under the Supervision of Large Language Models
205. CVPR 2025LPOSS: Label Propagation Over Patches and Pixels for Open-vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
206. CVPR 2025Mask-Adapter: The Devil is in the Masks for Open-Vocabulary Segmentation
207. CVPR 2025Masked Point-Entity Contrast for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding
208. CVPR 2025Mosaic3D: Foundation Dataset and Model for Open-Vocabulary 3D Segmentation
209. CVPR 2025Odd-One-Out: Anomaly Detection by Comparing with Neighbors
210. CVPR 2025Open Ad-hoc Categorization with Contextualized Feature Learning
211. CVPR 2025Open-Canopy: Towards Very High Resolution Forest Monitoring
212. CVPR 2025Open-Vocabulary Functional 3D Scene Graphs for Real-World Indoor Spaces
213. CVPR 2025Open-World Amodal Appearance Completion
214. CVPR 2025Open-World Objectness Modeling Unifies Novel Object Detection
215. CVPR 2025OpenMIBOOD: Open Medical Imaging Benchmarks for Out-Of-Distribution Detection
216. CVPR 2025OW-OVD: Unified Open World and Open Vocabulary Object Detection
217. CVPR 2025PanoGS: Gaussian-based Panoptic Segmentation for 3D Open Vocabulary Scene Understanding
218. CVPR 2025Parameter-efficient Fine-tuning in Hyperspherical Space for Open-vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
219. CVPR 2025RaCFormer: Towards High-Quality 3D Object Detection via Query-based Radar-Camera Fusion
220. CVPR 2025ReasonGrounder: LVLM-Guided Hierarchical Feature Splatting for Open-Vocabulary 3D Visual Grounding and Reasoning
221. CVPR 2025Reconstructing In-the-Wild Open-Vocabulary Human-Object Interactions
222. CVPR 2025Recover and Match: Open-Vocabulary Multi-Label Recognition through Knowledge-Constrained Optimal Transport
223. CVPR 2025RelationField: Relate Anything in Radiance Fields
224. CVPR 2025RLAIF-V: Open-Source AI Feedback Leads to Super GPT-4V Trustworthiness
225. CVPR 2025ROD-MLLM: Towards More Reliable Object Detection in Multimodal Large Language Models
226. CVPR 2025ScaleLSD: Scalable Deep Line Segment Detection Streamlined
227. CVPR 2025SDBF: Steep-Decision-Boundary Fingerprinting for Hard-Label Tampering Detection of DNN Models
228. CVPR 2025Secret Lies in Color: Enhancing AI-Generated Images Detection with Color Distribution Analysis
229. CVPR 2025SeeGround: See and Ground for Zero-Shot Open-Vocabulary 3D Visual Grounding
230. CVPR 2025SegEarth-OV: Towards Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Segmentation for Remote Sensing Images
231. CVPR 2025Semantic Library Adaptation: LoRA Retrieval and Fusion for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
232. CVPR 2025SET: Spectral Enhancement for Tiny Object Detection
233. CVPR 2025SGC-Net: Stratified Granular Comparison Network for Open-Vocabulary HOI Detection
234. CVPR 2025SimLTD: Simple Supervised and Semi-Supervised Long-Tailed Object Detection
235. CVPR 2025Solving Instance Detection from an Open-World Perspective
236. CVPR 2025SP3D: Boosting Sparsely-Supervised 3D Object Detection via Accurate Cross-Modal Semantic Prompts
237. CVPR 2025SparseAlign: a Fully Sparse Framework for Cooperative Object Detection
238. CVPR 2025Towards Generalizable Scene Change Detection
239. CVPR 2025Towards Open-Vocabulary Audio-Visual Event Localization
240. CVPR 2025Towards RAW Object Detection in Diverse Conditions
241. CVPR 2025UCOD-DPL: Unsupervised Camouflaged Object Detection via Dynamic Pseudo-label Learning
242. CVPR 2025Understanding Fine-tuning CLIP for Open-vocabulary Semantic Segmentation in Hyperbolic Space
243. CVPR 2025ViKIENet: Towards Efficient 3D Object Detection with Virtual Key Instance Enhanced Network
244. ICLR 20253D-AffordanceLLM: Harnessing Large Language Models for Open-Vocabulary Affordance Detection in 3D Worlds
245. ICLR 2025A Simple Framework for Open-Vocabulary Zero-Shot Segmentation
246. ICLR 2025A Statistical Approach for Controlled Training Data Detection
247. ICLR 2025Black-Box Detection of Language Model Watermarks
248. ICLR 2025Class Distribution-induced Attention Map for Open-vocabulary Semantic Segmentations
249. ICLR 2025Cut Your Losses in Large-Vocabulary Language Models
250. ICLR 2025Cyclic Contrastive Knowledge Transfer for Open-Vocabulary Object 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.