2026
Fantastic Tractor-Dogs and How Not to Find Them With Open-Vocabulary Detectors
ICLR 2026poster
Open-Vocabulary Detectors (OVDs) excel in zero-shot benchmarks, but we observe a critical flaw in real-world deployment: a high rate of confident false positive predictions on images that do not contain any target objects (e.g., detecting a tractor in an image of a dog). This issue is masked by stan…