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Recently, open-vocabulary learning has emerged to accomplish segmentation for arbitrary categories of text-based descriptions, which popularizes the segmentation system to more general-purpose application scenarios. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Jie Qin , Jie Wu , Pengxiang Yan , Ming Li , Ren Yuxi , Xuefeng Xiao , Yitong Wang , Rui Wang , Shilei Wen , Xin Pan , Xingang Wang

Recently, the contrastive language-image pre-training, e.g., CLIP, has demonstrated promising results on various downstream tasks. The pre-trained model can capture enriched visual concepts for images by learning from a large scale of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Huaishao Luo , Junwei Bao , Youzheng Wu , Xiaodong He , Tianrui Li

To bridge the gap between supervised semantic segmentation and real-world applications that acquires one model to recognize arbitrary new concepts, recent zero-shot segmentation attracts a lot of attention by exploring the relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Quande Liu , Youpeng Wen , Jianhua Han , Chunjing Xu , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang

In the realm of food computing, segmenting ingredients from images poses substantial challenges due to the large intra-class variance among the same ingredients, the emergence of new ingredients, and the high annotation costs associated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Xiongwei Wu , Sicheng Yu , Ee-Peng Lim , Chong-Wah Ngo

Semantic segmentation is a crucial task in computer vision, where each pixel in an image is classified into a category. However, traditional methods face significant challenges, including the need for pixel-level annotations and extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yasufumi Kawano , Yoshimitsu Aoki

The open-vocabulary image segmentation task involves partitioning images into semantically meaningful segments and classifying them with flexible text-defined categories. The recent vision-based foundation models such as the Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Xiaoqi Wang , Wenbin He , Xiwei Xuan , Clint Sebastian , Jorge Piazentin Ono , Xin Li , Sima Behpour , Thang Doan , Liang Gou , Han Wei Shen , Liu Ren

Open-vocabulary segmentation poses significant challenges, as it requires segmenting and recognizing objects across an open set of categories in unconstrained environments. Building on the success of powerful vision-language (ViL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Xi Chen , Haosen Yang , Sheng Jin , Xiatian Zhu , Hongxun Yao

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims to segment images into distinct semantic regions for both seen and unseen categories at the pixel level. Current methods utilize text embeddings from pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Ziyu Zhao , Xiaoguang Li , Linjia Shi , Nasrin Imanpour , Song Wang

Foundation models have exhibited unprecedented capabilities in tackling many domains and tasks. Models such as CLIP are currently widely used to bridge cross-modal representations, and text-to-image diffusion models are arguably the leading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Barbara Toniella Corradini , Mustafa Shukor , Paul Couairon , Guillaume Couairon , Franco Scarselli , Matthieu Cord

Conversational image segmentation grounds abstract, intent-driven concepts into pixel-accurate masks. Prior work on referring image grounding focuses on categorical and spatial queries (e.g., "left-most apple") and overlooks functional and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Aadarsh Sahoo , Georgia Gkioxari

In this paper, we tackle an emerging computer vision task, open-vocabulary universal image segmentation, that aims to perform semantic/instance/panoptic segmentation (background semantic labeling + foreground instance segmentation) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Zheng Ding , Jieke Wang , Zhuowen Tu

The segmentation task has traditionally been formulated as a complete-label pixel classification task to predict a class for each pixel from a fixed number of predefined semantic categories shared by all images or videos. Yet, following…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Haodi He , Yuhui Yuan , Xiangyu Yue , Han Hu

In this paper, we propose ReSeg-CLIP, a new training-free Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation method for remote sensing data. To compensate for the problems of vision language models, such as CLIP in semantic segmentation caused by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Mohammadreza Heidarianbaei , Mareike Dorozynski , Hubert Kanyamahanga , Max Mehltretter , Franz Rottensteiner

This paper studies open-vocabulary segmentation (OVS) through calibrating in-vocabulary and domain-biased embedding space with generalized contextual prior of CLIP. As the core of open-vocabulary understanding, alignment of visual content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Yong Liu , Sule Bai , Guanbin Li , Yitong Wang , Yansong Tang

Open-vocabulary segmentation (OVS) extends the zero-shot recognition capabilities of vision-language models (VLMs) to pixel-level prediction, enabling segmentation of arbitrary categories specified by text prompts. Despite recent progress,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Tilemachos Aravanis , Vladan Stojnić , Bill Psomas , Nikos Komodakis , Giorgos Tolias

Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation (OVSS) assigns pixel-level labels from an open set of categories, requiring generalization to unseen and unlabelled objects. Using vision-language models (VLMs) to correlate local image patches with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jiayi Lin , Jiabo Huang , Shaogang Gong

Image segmentation beyond predefined categories is a key challenge in remote sensing, where novel and unseen classes often emerge during inference. Open-vocabulary image Segmentation addresses these generalization issues in traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Saikat Dutta , Akhil Vasim , Siddhant Gole , Hamid Rezatofighi , Biplab Banerjee

Open world image segmentation aims to achieve precise segmentation and semantic understanding of targets within images by addressing the infinitely open set of object categories encountered in the real world. However, traditional closed-set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Danyang Li , Tianhao Wu , Bin Li , Zhenyuan Chen , Yang Zhang , Yuxuan Li , Ming-Ming Cheng , Xiang Li

Fully supervised semantic segmentation learns from dense masks, which requires heavy annotation cost for closed set. In this paper, we use natural language as supervision without any pixel-level annotation for open world segmentation. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Yi Li , Huifeng Yao , Hualiang Wang , Xiaomeng Li

This paper presents a novel training-free framework for open-vocabulary image segmentation and object recognition (OVSR), which leverages EfficientNetB0, a convolutional neural network, for unsupervised segmentation and CLIP, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ying Dai , Wei Yu Chen