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Self-attention is of vital importance in semantic segmentation as it enables modeling of long-range context, which translates into improved performance. We argue that it is equally important to model short-range context, especially to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Hasib Zunair , A. Ben Hamza

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 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

State-of-the-art techniques in weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) using image-level labels exhibit severe performance degradation on driving scene datasets such as Cityscapes. To address this challenge, we develop a new WSSS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Dongseob Kim , Seungho Lee , Junsuk Choe , Hyunjung Shim

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

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

Recently, CLIP has been applied to pixel-level zero-shot learning tasks via a two-stage scheme. The general idea is to first generate class-agnostic region proposals and then feed the cropped proposal regions to CLIP to utilize its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ziqin Zhou , Bowen Zhang , Yinjie Lei , Lingqiao Liu , Yifan Liu

Training a 3D scene understanding model requires complicated human annotations, which are laborious to collect and result in a model only encoding close-set object semantics. In contrast, vision-language pre-training models (e.g., CLIP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Junbo Zhang , Runpei Dong , Kaisheng Ma

When trained at a sufficient scale, self-supervised learning has exhibited a notable ability to solve a wide range of visual or language understanding tasks. In this paper, we investigate simple, yet effective approaches for adapting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Chaofan Ma , Yuhuan Yang , Yanfeng Wang , Ya Zhang , Weidi Xie

Recent advancements in foundation models, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have significantly impacted medical image segmentation, especially in retinal imaging, where precise segmentation is vital for diagnosis. Despite this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Zhihao Zhao , Yinzheng Zhao , Junjie Yang , Xiangtong Yao , Quanmin Liang , Shahrooz Faghihroohi , Kai Huang , Nassir Navab , M. Ali Nasseri

Joint vision-language models have shown great performance over a diverse set of tasks. However, little is known about their limitations, as the high dimensional space learned by these models makes it difficult to identify semantic errors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Santiago Castro , Oana Ignat , Rada Mihalcea

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

Contrastive language image pretraining (CLIP) is a standard method for training vision-language models. While CLIP is scalable, promptable, and robust to distribution shifts on image classification tasks, it lacks object localization…

Existing open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) develops methods for testing unseen categories by aligning object region embeddings with corresponding VLM features. A recent study leverages the idea that VLMs implicitly learn compositional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Hojun Choi , Junsuk Choe , Hyunjung Shim

Audio-visual segmentation aims to separate sounding objects from videos by predicting pixel-level masks based on audio signals. Existing methods primarily concentrate on closed-set scenarios and direct audio-visual alignment and fusion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shengkai Chen , Yifang Yin , Jinming Cao , Shili Xiang , Zhenguang Liu , Roger Zimmermann

We introduce a method that takes advantage of high-quality pretrained multimodal representations to explore fine-grained semantic networks in the human brain. Previous studies have documented evidence of functional localization in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Cory Efird , Alex Murphy , Joel Zylberberg , Alona Fyshe

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has been a celebrated method for training vision encoders to generate image/text representations facilitating various applications. Recently, CLIP has been widely adopted as the vision backbone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Hong-You Chen , Zhengfeng Lai , Haotian Zhang , Xinze Wang , Marcin Eichner , Keen You , Meng Cao , Bowen Zhang , Yinfei Yang , Zhe Gan

Large-scale pre-trained image-text models demonstrate remarkable versatility across diverse tasks, benefiting from their robust representational capabilities and effective multimodal alignment. We extend the application of these models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Sooyoung Park , Arda Senocak , Joon Son Chung

Generalized Zero-shot Semantic Segmentation aims to segment both seen and unseen categories only under the supervision of the seen ones. To tackle this, existing methods adopt the large-scale Vision Language Models (VLMs) which obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Jialei Chen , Daisuke Deguchi , Chenkai Zhang , Xu Zheng , Hiroshi Murase

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has drawn increasing attention recently for its transferable visual representation learning. However, due to the semantic gap within datasets, CLIP's pre-trained image-text alignment becomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Longtian Qiu , Renrui Zhang , Ziyu Guo , Ziyao Zeng , Zilu Guo , Yafeng Li , Guangnan Zhang