Journal article
Measured Against an Incomplete Answer Key: What Unknown Recall Certifies in Open-World Object Detection, Why Its Two Cost-Side Instruments Disagree, and the Separation That Was Published and Not Adopted
Open-world object detection asks a detector to put boxes on objects whose classes it was never trained on, and the field's headline number for that ability is unknown recall. This paper reconstructs where that metric came from and what it can certify. The founding paper of the task did not report…