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ARXIV:2603.26109 · COMPUTER VISION · SUBMITTED 30 MAR · 22:29 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.26109COMPUTER VISIONSUBMITTED 30 MAR · 22:29 UTCFRESHNESS STALEJiaming Liang · Yifeng Zhan · Chunlin Liu · Weihua Zheng · Bingye Peng · Qiwei Liang · +3 at arXiv
A new method for detecting camouflaged objects in images using text prompts, with a new benchmark dataset and code available.
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A new method for detecting camouflaged objects in images using text prompts, with a new benchmark dataset and code available. Benefiting from the emergence of large-scale vision--language pre-trained models, OVOD has demonstrated strong zero-shot…
Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) aims to detect known and unknown objects in the open world by leveraging text prompts. Benefiting from the emergence of large-scale vision--language pre-trained models, OVOD has demonstrated strong zero-shot generalization…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 5.0/10 on the public viability pass. Under the open-set evaluation setting, the proposed method achieves an AP of 56.4 on the OVCOD-D benchmark. Code availability is flagged in the production…
Computer Vision moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 5.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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A new method for detecting camouflaged objects in images using text prompts, with a new benchmark dataset and code available.
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.26109A new method for detecting camouflaged objects in images using text prompts, with a new benchmark dataset and code available.
Abstract
Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) aims to detect known and unknown objects in the open world by leveraging text prompts. Benefiting from the emergence of large-scale vision--language pre-trained models, OVOD has demonstrated strong zero-shot generalization capabilities. However, when dealing with camouflaged objects, the detector often fails to distinguish and localize objects because the visual features of the objects and the background are highly similar. To bridge this gap, we construct a benchmark named OVCOD-D by augmenting carefully selected camouflaged object images with fine-grained textual descriptions. Due to the limited scale of available camouflaged object datasets, we adopt detectors pre-trained on large-scale object detection datasets as our baseline methods, as they possess stronger zero-shot generalization ability. In the specificity-aware sub-descriptions generated by multimodal large models, there still exist confusing and overly decorative modifiers. To mitigate such interference, we design a sub-description principal component contrastive fusion strategy that reduces noisy textual components. Furthermore, to address the challenge that the visual features of camouflaged objects are highly similar to those of their surrounding environment, we propose a specificity-guided regional weak alignment and dynamic focusing method, which aims to strengthen the detector's ability to discriminate camouflaged objects from background. Under the open-set evaluation setting, the proposed method achieves an AP of 56.4 on the OVCOD-D benchmark.
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A new method for detecting camouflaged objects in images using text prompts, with a new benchmark dataset and code available. Benefiting from the emergence of large-scale vision--language pre-trained models, OVOD has demonstrated strong zero-shot generalization capabilities.
METHOD
Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) aims to detect known and unknown objects in the open world by leveraging text prompts. Benefiting from the emergence of large-scale vision--language pre-trained models, OVOD has demonstrated strong zero-shot generalization capabilities.
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 5.0/10 on the public viability pass. Under the open-set evaluation setting, the proposed method achieves an AP of 56.4 on the OVCOD-D benchmark. Code availability is flagged in the production record; the public repository link still needs pr...
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Computer Vision moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 5.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
To alleviate the limitation of redundant textual-description embeddings, we design a sub-description principal component contrastive fusion strategy, which first removes interfering textual components via singular value decomposition (SVD), and then exploits the contrastiveness between the sub-description principal components with respect to the object and background regions to perform fusion, thereby preserving the specific and diverse components of sub-descriptions for camouflaged objects.
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SDDF-L YOLOv8-L 109M O365,GoldG 56.4 76.4 60.7 34.4 59.0
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Under the open-set evaluation setting, the proposed method achieves an AP of 56.4 on the OVCOD-D benchmark.
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we construct a benchmark named OVCOD-D by augmenting carefully selected camouflaged object images with fine-grained textual descriptions.
The abstract and the contributions list clearly state the creation of this benchmark.
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To mitigate such interference, we design a sub-description principal component contrastive fusion strategy that reduces noisy textual components.
The abstract and the contributions list clearly describe this strategy as a solution to a specific problem.
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Furthermore, to address the challenge that the visual features of camouflaged objects are highly similar to those of their surrounding environment, we propose a specificity-guided regional weak alignment and dynamic focusing method, which aims to strengthen the detector's ability to discriminate camouflaged objects from background.
The abstract and the contributions list clearly describe this method as a solution to a specific challenge.
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By comparing the AP of the overlapping categories across the two datasets, we observe a substantial performance decline on OVCOD-D, indicating that open-vocabulary detectors face significant challenges when dealing with camouflaged objects.
The abstract and Figure 1 illustrate this performance gap, indicating a limitation of current OVOD methods on camouflaged objects.
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we design asub-description prin-cipal component contrastive fusionstrategy, which first re-moves interfering textual components via singular value de-composition (SVD),
The text explicitly describes the mechanism of the fusion strategy, including the use of SVD.
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SDDF-L YOLOv8-L 109M O365,GoldG 56.4 76.4 60.7 34.4 59.0
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Under the open-set evaluation setting, the proposed method achieves an AP of 56.4 on the OVCOD-D benchmark.
This is a direct result stated in the abstract and supported by the experimental results table.
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We construct an open-vocabulary camouflaged object detection benchmark, OVCOD-D, by integrating and refining mainstream camouflaged object image datasets and injecting carefully curated fine-grained descriptions of camouflaged objects.
This is explicitly stated as a contribution in the abstract and detailed in the paper.
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To mitigate such interference, we design a sub-description principal component contrastive fusion strategy that reduces noisy textual components.
This is explicitly stated as a contribution and a designed method in the abstract and paper.
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