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Understanding 3D scenes is a crucial challenge in computer vision research with applications spanning multiple domains. Recent advancements in distilling 2D vision-language foundation models into neural fields, like NeRF and 3DGS, enable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Zihan Gao , Lingling Li , Licheng Jiao , Fang Liu , Xu Liu , Wenping Ma , Yuwei Guo , Shuyuan Yang

Prompt engineering has shown remarkable success with large language models, yet its systematic exploration in computer vision remains limited. In semantic segmentation, both textual and visual prompts offer distinct advantages: textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Gabriele Rosi , Fabio Cermelli

Interactive 3D biomedical image segmentation requires efficient models that can iteratively refine predictions based on user prompts. Current foundation models either lack volumetric awareness or suffer from limited interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Tidiane Camaret Ndir , Alexander Pfefferle , Robin Tibor Schirrmeister

Large-scale vision-language models (VLMs), trained on extensive datasets of image-text pairs, exhibit strong multimodal understanding capabilities by implicitly learning associations between textual descriptions and image regions. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Mir Rayat Imtiaz Hossain , Mennatullah Siam , Leonid Sigal , James J. Little

Open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding is pivotal for enhancing physical intelligence, as it enables embodied agents to interpret and interact dynamically within real-world environments. This paper introduces MPEC, a novel Masked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Yan Wang , Baoxiong Jia , Ziyu Zhu , Siyuan Huang

Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) methods are capable of performing semantic segmentation without relying on a fixed vocabulary, and in some cases, without training or fine-tuning. However, OVS methods typically require a human in the loop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Osman Ülger , Maksymilian Kulicki , Yuki Asano , Martin R. Oswald

Understanding open-vocabulary 3D scenes with Gaussian-based representations remains challenging due to fragmented and spatially inconsistent semantic predictions across multi-view observations. In this paper, we present OpenGaFF, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Kunyi Li , Michael Niemeyer , Sen Wang , Stefano Gasperini , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Precise 3D environmental mapping is pivotal in robotics. Existing methods often rely on predefined concepts during training or are time-intensive when generating semantic maps. This paper presents Open-Fusion, a groundbreaking approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Kashu Yamazaki , Taisei Hanyu , Khoa Vo , Thang Pham , Minh Tran , Gianfranco Doretto , Anh Nguyen , Ngan Le

Representing the semantics of words is a long-standing problem for the natural language processing community. Most methods compute word semantics given their textual context in large corpora. More recently, researchers attempted to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Éloi Zablocki , Benjamin Piwowarski , Laure Soulier , Patrick Gallinari

Neural implicit representations have been explored to enhance visual SLAM algorithms, especially in providing high-fidelity dense map. Existing methods operate robustly in static scenes but struggle with the disruption caused by moving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Ziheng Xu , Jianwei Niu , Qingfeng Li , Tao Ren , Chen Chen

Pre-trained vision-language models, e.g. CLIP, have been increasingly used to address the challenging Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) task, benefiting from their well-aligned vision-text embedding space. Typical solutions involve either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Siyu Jiao , Hongguang Zhu , Jiannan Huang , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei , Humphrey Shi

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) aims to segment objects from arbitrary text categories without requiring densely annotated datasets. Although contrastive learning based models enable zero-shot segmentation, they often lose fine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Huy Che , Vinh-Tiep Nguyen

Foreground segmentation is a fundamental problem in computer vision, which includes salient object detection, forgery detection, defocus blur detection, shadow detection, and camouflage object detection. Previous works have typically relied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Weihuang Liu , Xi Shen , Chi-Man Pun , Xiaodong Cun

Representing visual signals with implicit coordinate-based neural networks, as an effective replacement of the traditional discrete signal representation, has gained considerable popularity in computer vision and graphics. In contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Xin Huang , Qi Zhang , Ying Feng , Hongdong Li , Qing Wang

Computed tomography (CT) is extensively used for accurate visualization and segmentation of organs and lesions. While deep learning models such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs) have significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yuheng Li , Yuxiang Lai , Maria Thor , Deborah Marshall , Zachary Buchwald , David S. Yu , Xiaofeng Yang

Mobile robots operating indoors must be prepared to navigate challenging scenes that contain transparent surfaces. This paper proposes a novel method for the fusion of acoustic and visual sensing modalities through implicit neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Advaith V. Sethuraman , Onur Bagoren , Harikrishnan Seetharaman , Dalton Richardson , Joseph Taylor , Katherine A. Skinner

Segmentation localizes objects in an image on a fine-grained per-pixel scale. Segmentation benefits by humans-in-the-loop to provide additional input of objects to segment using a combination of foreground or background clicks. Tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Nikolai Warner , Meera Hahn , Jonathan Huang , Irfan Essa , Vighnesh Birodkar

Zero-shot learning for visual recognition, e.g., object and action recognition, has recently attracted a lot of attention. However, it still remains challenging in bridging the semantic gap between visual features and their underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Qian Wang , Ke Chen

Open-vocabulary panoptic reconstruction is crucial for advanced robotics and simulation. However, existing 3D reconstruction methods, such as NeRF or Gaussian Splatting variants, often struggle to achieve the real-time inference frequency…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xuan Yu , Yuxuan Xie , Shichao Zhai , Shuhao Ye , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang

Large-scale vision-language models like CLIP have demonstrated impressive open-vocabulary capabilities for image-level tasks, excelling in recognizing what objects are present. However, they struggle with pixel-level recognition tasks like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Heeseong Shin , Chaehyun Kim , Sunghwan Hong , Seokju Cho , Anurag Arnab , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Seungryong Kim