Described Object Detection

Described Object Detection (DOD) detects all instances on each image in the dataset, based on a flexible reference. It is a superset of Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVD) and Referring Expression Comprehension (REC). It expands category names to flexible language expressions for OVD and overcomes the limitation of REC only grounding the pre-existing object. Works related to DOD are tracked in awesome-DOD list on github.