OW-DETR: Open-world Detection Transformer

Understand

Open-world object detection (OWOD) is a challenging computer vision problem, where the task is to detect a known set of object categories while simultaneously identifying unknown objects.

• Additionally, the model must incrementally learn new classes that become known in the next training episodes.
• Distinct from standard object detection, the OWOD setting poses significant challenges for generating quality candidate proposals on potentially unknown objects, separating the unknown objects from the background and detecting diverse unknown objects.
• Here, we introduce a novel end-to-end transformer-based framework, OW-DETR, for open-world object detection.