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

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1. CVPR 2026ANTS Adaptive Negative Textual Space Shaping for OOD Detection via
2. CVPR 2026BDNetBio-Inspired Dual-Backbone Small Object Detection Network
3. CVPR 2026Beyond Appearance Camouflaged Object Detection via Geometric Structure
4. CVPR 2026Beyond Prompt Degradation Prototype-guided Dual-pool Prompting for Incremental Object Detection
5. CVPR 2026Bypassing the Transport Plan Dynamic Reweighting for Out-of-Distribution Detection with
6. CVPR 2026CoCoVideo The High-Quality Commercial-Model-Based Contrastive Benchmark for AI-Generated Video Detection
7. CVPR 2026Consistency Beyond Contrast Enhancing Open-Vocabulary Object Detection Robustness via Contextual
8. CVPR 2026Decompose and Transfer CoT-Prompting Enhanced Alignment for Open-Vocabulary Temporal Action
9. CVPR 2026Detecting Unknown Objects via Energy-based Separation for Open World Object
10. CVPR 2026DFD-HR Generalizable Deepfake Detection via Hierarchical Routing Learning
11. CVPR 2026Direct Segmentation without Logits Optimization for Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
12. CVPR 2026Edit-As-Act Goal-Regressive Planning for Open-Vocabulary 3D Indoor Scene Editing
13. CVPR 2026EmbodiedSplat Online Feed-Forward Semantic 3DGS for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding
14. CVPR 2026Enhancing Out-of-Distribution Detection with Extended Logit Normalization
15. CVPR 2026EV-CGNet Co-visible Focused 3D-guided 2D Event Keypoint Detection Network
16. CVPR 2026ExtrinSplat Decoupling Geometry and Semantics for Open-Vocabulary Understanding in 3D
17. CVPR 2026Generalizable Co-Salient Object Detection via Mixed Content-Style Modulation
18. CVPR 2026GeoGuide Hierarchical Geometric Guidance for Open-Vocabulary 3D Semantic Segmentation
19. CVPR 2026HERO Hierarchical Embedding-Refinement for Open-Vocabulary Temporal Sentence Grounding in Videos
20. CVPR 2026HOPS Hierarchical Open-vocabulary Part Segmentation with Attention-Aware Filtering and Affinity-Guided
21. CVPR 2026KLIP Localized Distribution Shift Detection via KL-Divergence with Diffusion Priors
22. CVPR 2026Learning to Diversify and Focus A Reinforcement Framework for Open-Vocabulary
23. CVPR 2026LightSplat Fast and Memory-Efficient Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding in Five
24. CVPR 2026LocateAnything3D Vision-Language 3D Detection with Chain-of-Sight
25. CVPR 2026Looking Beyond the Window Global-Local Aligned CLIP for Training-free Open-Vocabulary
26. CVPR 2026MARIS Marine Open-Vocabulary Instance Segmentation
27. CVPR 2026Mind the Gap Transferring Labels to Align Object Detection Datasets
28. CVPR 2026Mitigating Objectness Bias and Region-to-Text Misalignment for Open-Vocabulary Panoptic Segmentation
29. CVPR 2026Mixture-of-Experts based Feature Decoupling for Open Vocabulary Scene Graph Generation
30. CVPR 2026MM-OVSeg Multimodal Optical-SAR Fusion for Open-Vocabulary Segmentation in Remote Sensing
31. CVPR 2026Monocular Open Vocabulary Occupancy Prediction for Indoor Scenes
32. CVPR 2026MonoSAOD Monocular 3D Object Detection with Sparsely Annotated Label
33. CVPR 2026MRD Multi-resolution Retrieval-Detection Fusion for High-Resolution Image Understanding
34. CVPR 2026Neural Distribution Prior for LiDAR Out-of-Distribution Detection
35. CVPR 2026NoOVD Novel Category Discovery and Embedding for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
36. CVPR 2026Omni-Attribute Open-vocabulary Attribute Encoder for Visual Concept Personalization
37. CVPR 2026OnlinePG Online Open-Vocabulary Panoptic Mapping with 3D Gaussian Splatting
38. CVPR 2026Open the Motion Door Atomic Motion Decomposition and Recomposition for
39. CVPR 2026Open-Vocabulary Domain Generalization in Urban-Scene Segmentation
40. CVPR 2026OpenDPR Open-Vocabulary Change Detection via Vision-Centric Diffusion-Guided Prototype Retrieval for
41. CVPR 2026OpenFS Multi-Hand-Capable Fingerspelling Recognition with Implicit Signing-Hand Detection and Frame-Wise
42. CVPR 2026OpenVoxel Training-Free Grouping and Captioning Voxels for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene
43. CVPR 2026OSMO Open-vocabulary Self-eMOtion Tracking
44. CVPR 2026Ov3R Open-Vocabulary Semantic 3D Reconstruction from RGB Videos
45. CVPR 2026OVI-MAP Open-Vocabulary Instance-Semantic Mapping
46. CVPR 2026Parameter-Efficient Semantic Augmentation for Enhancing Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
47. CVPR 2026Parameterized Prompt for Incremental Object Detection
48. CVPR 2026PCA-Seg Revisiting Cost Aggregation for Open-Vocabulary Semantic and Part Segmentation
49. CVPR 2026PEARL Geometry Aligns Semantics for Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
50. CVPR 2026Prompt-Free Unknown Label Generation for Open World Detection in Remote

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.