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 7 of 12

301. NeurIPS 2025On the Empirical Power of Goodness-of-Fit Tests in Watermark Detection
302. NeurIPS 2025OOD-Barrier: Build a Middle-Barrier for Open-Set Single-Image Test Time Adaptation via Vision Language Models
303. NeurIPS 2025Open-Insect: Benchmarking Open-Set Recognition of Novel Species in Biodiversity Monitoring
304. NeurIPS 2025Open-Vocabulary Part Segmentation via Progressive and Boundary-Aware Strategy
305. NeurIPS 2025OpenAD: Open-World Autonomous Driving Benchmark for 3D Object Detection
306. NeurIPS 2025OpenBox: Annotate Any Bounding Boxes in 3D
307. NeurIPS 2025OpenHype: Hyperbolic Embeddings for Hierarchical Open-Vocabulary Radiance Fields
308. NeurIPS 2025OpenLex3D: A Tiered Benchmark for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Representations
309. NeurIPS 2025OPMapper: Enhancing Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation with Multi-Guidance Information
310. NeurIPS 2025OVS Meets Continual Learning: Towards Sustainable Open-Vocabulary Segmentation
311. NeurIPS 2025PHANTOM: A Benchmark for Hallucination Detection in Financial Long-Context QA
312. NeurIPS 2025PLEIADES: Building Temporal Kernels with Orthogonal Polynomials
313. NeurIPS 2025Rethinking Evaluation of Infrared Small Target Detection
314. NeurIPS 2025Revisiting Logit Distributions for Reliable Out-of-Distribution Detection
315. NeurIPS 2025Seg4Diff: Unveiling Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation in Text-to-Image Diffusion Transformers
316. NeurIPS 2025Segment then Splat: Unified 3D Open-Vocabulary Segmentation via Gaussian Splatting
317. NeurIPS 2025Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
318. NeurIPS 2025Towards 3D Objectness Learning in an Open World
319. NeurIPS 2025UFO: A Unified Approach to Fine-grained Visual Perception via Open-ended Language Interface
320. NeurIPS 2025VL-SAM-V2: Open-World Object Detection with General and Specific Query Fusion
321. NeurIPS 2025Vocabulary In-Context Learning in Transformers: Benefits of Positional Encoding
322. NeurIPS 2025X-Mahalanobis: Transformer Feature Mixing for Reliable OOD Detection
323. CVPR 2024Active Open-Vocabulary Recognition: Let Intelligent Moving Mitigate CLIP Limitations
324. CVPR 2024AEROBLADE: Training-Free Detection of Latent Diffusion Images Using Autoencoder Reconstruction Error
325. CVPR 2024Anomaly Heterogeneity Learning for Open-set Supervised Anomaly Detection
326. CVPR 2024AnySkill: Learning Open-Vocabulary Physical Skill for Interactive Agents
327. CVPR 2024Back to 3D: Few-Shot 3D Keypoint Detection with Back-Projected 2D Features
328. CVPR 2024Benchmarking Segmentation Models with Mask-Preserved Attribute Editing
329. CVPR 2024CAT-Seg: Cost Aggregation for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
330. CVPR 2024Causal Mode Multiplexer: A Novel Framework for Unbiased Multispectral Pedestrian Detection
331. CVPR 2024CLIP-Driven Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Graph Generation via Cross-Modality Contrastive Learning
332. CVPR 2024CMA: A Chromaticity Map Adapter for Robust Detection of Screen-Recapture Document Images
333. CVPR 2024CommonCanvas: Open Diffusion Models Trained on Creative-Commons Images
334. CVPR 2024CORES: Convolutional Response-based Score for Out-of-distribution Detection
335. CVPR 2024DetCLIPv3: Towards Versatile Generative Open-vocabulary Object Detection
336. CVPR 2024Discriminability-Driven Channel Selection for Out-of-Distribution Detection
337. CVPR 2024Emergent Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation from Off-the-shelf Vision-Language Models
338. CVPR 2024Enhancing 3D Object Detection with 2D Detection-Guided Query Anchors
339. CVPR 2024Enhancing the Power of OOD Detection via Sample-Aware Model Selection
340. CVPR 2024Exploring Orthogonality in Open World Object Detection
341. CVPR 2024Exploring Region-Word Alignment in Built-in Detector for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
342. CVPR 2024Exploring the Potential of Large Foundation Models for Open-Vocabulary HOI Detection
343. CVPR 2024FocusMAE: Gallbladder Cancer Detection from Ultrasound Videos with Focused Masked Autoencoders
344. CVPR 2024From Coarse to Fine-Grained Open-Set Recognition
345. CVPR 2024From Pixels to Graphs: Open-Vocabulary Scene Graph Generation with Vision-Language Models
346. CVPR 2024Generative Region-Language Pretraining for Open-Ended Object Detection
347. CVPR 2024GOV-NeSF: Generalizable Open-Vocabulary Neural Semantic Fields
348. CVPR 2024Hyperbolic Anomaly Detection
349. CVPR 2024Hyperbolic Learning with Synthetic Captions for Open-World Detection
350. CVPR 2024Image-to-Image Matching via Foundation Models: A New Perspective for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

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.