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Semantic segmentation plays a crucial role in enabling machines to understand and interpret visual scenes at a pixel level. While traditional segmentation methods have achieved remarkable success, their generalization to diverse scenes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Philip Hughes , Larry Burns , Luke Adams

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation enables models to identify novel object categories beyond their training data. While this flexibility represents a significant advancement, current approaches still rely on manually specified class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Klara Reichard , Giulia Rizzoli , Stefano Gasperini , Lukas Hoyer , Pietro Zanuttigh , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation (OVSS) assigns pixel-level labels from an open set of text-defined categories, demanding reliable generalization to unseen classes at inference. Although modern vision-language models (VLMs) support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Saikat Dutta , Biplab Banerjee , Hamid Rezatofighi

Recent advancements in open vocabulary models, like CLIP, have notably advanced zero-shot classification and segmentation by utilizing natural language for class-specific embeddings. However, most research has focused on improving model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Wenfang Sun , Yingjun Du , Gaowen Liu , Ramana Kompella , Cees G. M. Snoek

In this paper, we propose an embarrassingly simple yet highly effective zero-shot semantic segmentation (ZS3) method, based on the pre-trained vision-language model CLIP. First, our study provides a couple of key discoveries: (i) the global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Letian Wu , Wenyao Zhang , Tengping Jiang , Wankou Yang , Xin Jin , Wenjun Zeng

Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to discover groupings within and across images that capture object and view-invariance of a category without external supervision. Grouping naturally has levels of granularity, creating ambiguity in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Tsung-Wei Ke , Jyh-Jing Hwang , Yunhui Guo , Xudong Wang , Stella X. Yu

We tackle open-world semantic segmentation, which aims at learning to segment arbitrary visual concepts in images, by using only image-text pairs without dense annotations. Existing open-world segmentation methods have shown impressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Junbum Cha , Jonghwan Mun , Byungseok Roh

Existing semantic segmentation approaches either aim to improve the object's inner consistency by modeling the global context, or refine objects detail along their boundaries by multi-scale feature fusion. In this paper, a new paradigm for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Xiangtai Li , Xia Li , Li Zhang , Guangliang Cheng , Jianping Shi , Zhouchen Lin , Shaohua Tan , Yunhai Tong

The visual understanding are often approached from 3 granular levels: image, patch and pixel. Visual Tokenization, trained by self-supervised reconstructive learning, compresses visual data by codebook in patch-level with marginal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Jianyu Zhang , Li Zhang , Shijian Li

In semantic segmentation, generalizing a visual system to both seen categories and novel categories at inference time has always been practically valuable yet challenging. To enable such functionality, existing methods mainly rely on either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yuhuan Yang , Chaofan Ma , Chen Ju , Fei Zhang , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

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

Semantic segmentation is a critical task in computer vision aiming to identify and classify individual pixels in an image, with numerous applications in for example autonomous driving and medical image analysis. However, semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Halil Ibrahim Aysel , Xiaohao Cai , Adam Prügel-Bennett

Semantic Segmentation is a significant research field in Computer Vision. Despite being a widely studied subject area, many visualization tools do not exist that capture segmentation quality and dataset statistics such as a class imbalance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Sourajit Saha , Shubhashis Roy Dipta

Zero-shot Semantic Segmentation (ZSS) aims to segment both seen and unseen classes using supervision from only seen classes. Beyond adaptation-based methods, distillation-based approaches transfer vision-language alignment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Jialei Chen , Xu Zheng , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool , Hiroshi Murase , Daisuke Deguchi

The rapid development of deep learning has driven significant progress in image semantic segmentation - a fundamental task in computer vision. Semantic segmentation algorithms often depend on the availability of pixel-level labels (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Zhaozheng Chen , Qianru Sun

Recent advancements in pre-trained vision-language models, such as CLIP, have enabled the segmentation of arbitrary concepts solely from textual inputs, a process commonly referred to as open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVS). However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Kunyang Han , Yong Liu , Jun Hao Liew , Henghui Ding , Yunchao Wei , Jiajun Liu , Yitong Wang , Yansong Tang , Yujiu Yang , Jiashi Feng , Yao Zhao

We introduce Patch Aligned Contrastive Learning (PACL), a modified compatibility function for CLIP's contrastive loss, intending to train an alignment between the patch tokens of the vision encoder and the CLS token of the text encoder.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Jishnu Mukhoti , Tsung-Yu Lin , Omid Poursaeed , Rui Wang , Ashish Shah , Philip H. S. Torr , Ser-Nam Lim

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation is a challenging task that requires segmenting novel object categories at inference time. Recent studies have explored vision-language pre-training to handle this task, but suffer from unrealistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Chaofan Ma , Yuhuan Yang , Chen Ju , Fei Zhang , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation (OVSS) has advanced with recent vision-language models (VLMs), enabling segmentation beyond predefined categories through various learning schemes. Notably, training-free methods offer scalable, easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Chanyoung Kim , Dayun Ju , Woojung Han , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Seong Jae Hwang

Few-shot segmentation has garnered significant attention. Many recent approaches attempt to introduce the Segment Anything Model (SAM) to handle this task. With the strong generalization ability and rich object-specific extraction ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Jin Wang , Bingfeng Zhang , Jian Pang , Weifeng Liu , Baodi Liu , Honglong Chen