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Open-vocabulary learning has emerged as a cutting-edge research area, particularly in light of the widespread adoption of vision-based foundational models. Its primary objective is to comprehend novel concepts that are not encompassed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Chunlei Wang , Wenquan Feng , Xiangtai Li , Guangliang Cheng , Shuchang Lyu , Binghao Liu , Lijiang Chen , Qi Zhao

General purpose Vision Language Models (VLMs) have received tremendous interest in recent years, owing to their ability to learn rich vision-language correlations as well as their broad zero-shot competencies. One immensely popular line of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Moulik Choraria , Xinbo Wu , Sourya Basu , Nitesh Sekhar , Yue Wu , Xu Zhang , Prateek Singhal , Lav R. Varshney

Recent advent of vision-based foundation models has enabled efficient and high-quality object detection at ease. Despite the success of previous studies, object detection models face limitations on capturing small components from holistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Jinwoo Ahn , Hyeokjoon Kwon , Hwiyeon Yoo

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation strives to distinguish pixels into different semantic groups from an open set of categories. Most existing methods explore utilizing pre-trained vision-language models, in which the key is to adopt the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Bin Xie , Jiale Cao , Jin Xie , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Yanwei Pang

Referring segmentation aims to segment a target object related to a natural language expression. Key challenges of this task are understanding the meaning of complex and ambiguous language expressions and determining the relevant regions in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Yubin Cho , Hyunwoo Yu , Suk-ju Kang

Combining simple architectures with large-scale pre-training has led to massive improvements in image classification. For object detection, pre-training and scaling approaches are less well established, especially in the long-tailed and…

Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) have become a de facto choice for many downstream vision tasks, like image classification, image segmentation, and object localization. However, they can also provide significant utility for downstream 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Johannes Spoecklberger , Wei Lin , Pedro Hermosilla , Sivan Doveh , Horst Possegger , M. Jehanzeb Mirza

This paper presents a new framework for open-vocabulary semantic segmentation with the pre-trained vision-language model, named Side Adapter Network (SAN). Our approach models the semantic segmentation task as a region recognition problem.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Mengde Xu , Zheng Zhang , Fangyun Wei , Han Hu , Xiang Bai

We propose semantic fusion, a lightweight scheme that augments a Transformer language model (LM) with a parallel, fuzzy-membership feature channel that encodes token-level semantics. Each token is represented by a vector of interpretable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yongchao Huang , Hassan Raza

It is widely agreed that open-vocabulary-based approaches outperform classical closed-set training solutions for recognizing unseen objects in images for semantic segmentation. Existing open-vocabulary approaches leverage vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Huadong Tang , Youpeng Zhao , Yan Huang , Min Xu , Jun Wang , Qiang Wu

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 aims to assign pixel-level labels to images across an unlimited range of classes. Traditional methods address this by sequentially connecting a powerful mask proposal generator, such as the Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Minhyeok Lee , Suhwan Cho , Jungho Lee , Sunghun Yang , Heeseung Choi , Ig-Jae Kim , Sangyoun Lee

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation enables models to segment objects or image regions beyond fixed class sets, offering flexibility in dynamic environments. However, existing methods often rely on single-view images and struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Thomas Campagnolo , Ezio Malis , Philippe Martinet , Gaétan Bahl

Vision-language fine-tuning has emerged as an efficient paradigm for constructing multimodal foundation models. While textual context often highlights semantic relationships within an image, existing fine-tuning methods typically overlook…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Xiangyang Wu , Liu Liu , Baosheng Yu , Jiayan Qiu , Zhenwei Shi

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation aims to achieve pixel-level predictions using image-level labels. Existing methods typically entangle semantic recognition and object localization, which often leads models to focus exclusively on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Qingze He , Fagui Liu , Dengke Zhang , Qingmao Wei , Quan Tang

Most recent 3D instance segmentation methods are open vocabulary, offering a greater flexibility than closed-vocabulary methods. Yet, they are limited to reasoning within a specific set of concepts, \ie the vocabulary, prompted by the user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Guofeng Mei , Luigi Riz , Yiming Wang , Fabio Poiesi

Pre-trained diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in synthesizing images across a wide range of scenarios with customizable prompts, indicating their effective capacity to capture universal features. Motivated by this,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Yuxiang Ji , Boyong He , Chenyuan Qu , Zhuoyue Tan , Chuan Qin , Liaoni Wu

Semantic segmentation is a core computer vision problem, but the high costs of data annotation have hindered its wide application. Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) offers a cost-efficient workaround to extensive labeling in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Elham Ravanbakhsh , Cheng Niu , Yongqing Liang , J. Ramanujam , Xin Li

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

When trained at sufficient scale, auto-regressive language models exhibit the notable ability to learn a new language task after being prompted with just a few examples. Here, we present a simple, yet effective, approach for transferring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Maria Tsimpoukelli , Jacob Menick , Serkan Cabi , S. M. Ali Eslami , Oriol Vinyals , Felix Hill