AI RESEARCH

Towards Domain-Generalized Open-Vocabulary Object Detection: A Progressive Domain-invariant Cross-modal Alignment Method

arXiv CS.CV

ArXi:2603.27556v1 Announce Type: new Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVOD) has achieved remarkable success in generalizing to novel categories. However, this success often rests on the implicit assumption of domain stationarity. In this work, we provide a principled revisit of the OVOD paradigm, uncovering a fundamental vulnerability: the fragile coupling between visual manifolds and textual embeddings when distribution shifts occur. We first systematically formalize Domain-Generalized Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (DG