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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…

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We present OpenSeeD, a simple Open-vocabulary Segmentation and Detection framework that jointly learns from different segmentation and detection datasets. To bridge the gap of vocabulary and annotation granularity, we first introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Hao Zhang , Feng Li , Xueyan Zou , Shilong Liu , Chunyuan Li , Jianfeng Gao , Jianwei Yang , Lei Zhang

Recently, the open-vocabulary semantic segmentation problem has attracted increasing attention and the best performing methods are based on two-stream networks: one stream for proposal mask generation and the other for segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Cong Han , Yujie Zhong , Dengjie Li , Kai Han , Lin Ma

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) 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

Open-vocabulary image segmentation aims to partition an image into semantic regions according to arbitrary text descriptions. However, complex visual scenes can be naturally decomposed into simpler parts and abstracted at multiple levels of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Xudong Wang , Shufan Li , Konstantinos Kallidromitis , Yusuke Kato , Kazuki Kozuka , Trevor Darrell

Open-Vocabulary Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) is attracting increasing attention due to its ability to segment and track arbitrary objects. However, the recent Open-Vocabulary VIS attempts obtained unsatisfactory results, especially in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Hao Fang , Peng Wu , Yawei Li , Xinxin Zhang , Xiankai Lu

In this work, we present COSINE, a unified open-world segmentation model that consolidates open-vocabulary segmentation and in-context segmentation with multi-modal prompts (e.g., text and image). COSINE exploits foundation models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yang Liu , Yufei Yin , Chenchen Jing , Muzhi Zhu , Hao Chen , Yuling Xi , Bo Feng , Hao Wang , Shiyu Li , Chunhua Shen

Recently, Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have advanced segmentation techniques by shifting from the traditional segmentation of a closed-set of predefined object classes to open-vocabulary segmentation (OVS), allowing users to segment novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Gonca Yilmaz , Songyou Peng , Marc Pollefeys , Francis Engelmann , Hermann Blum

Deep learning models, such as the fully convolutional network (FCN), have been widely used in 3D biomedical segmentation and achieved state-of-the-art performance. Multiple modalities are often used for disease diagnosis and quantification.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-23 Yu Chen , Jiawei Chen , Dong Wei , Yuexiang Li , Yefeng Zheng

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 image semantic segmentation (OVS) seeks to segment images into semantic regions across an open set of categories. Existing OVS methods commonly depend on foundational vision-language models and utilize similarity computation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Qinglong Cao , Yuntian Chen , Chao Ma , Xiaokang Yang

Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) aims to segment image regions beyond predefined category sets by leveraging semantic descriptions. While CLIP based approaches excel in semantic generalization, they frequently lack the fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Haoxi Zeng , Qiankun Liu , Yi Bin , Haiyue Zhang , Yujuan Ding , Guoqing Wang , Deqiang Ouyang , Heng Tao Shen

The global rise in the number of people with physical disabilities, in part due to improvements in post-trauma survivorship and longevity, has amplified the demand for advanced assistive technologies to improve mobility and independence.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yifan Xu , Vineet Kamat , Carol Menassa

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

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-Vocabulary Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (OVRSIS), an emerging task that adapts Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) to the remote sensing (RS) domain, remains underexplored due to the absence of a unified evaluation benchmark and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Bingyu Li , Haocheng Dong , Da Zhang , Zhiyuan Zhao , Junyu Gao , Xuelong Li

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

Open-Vocabulary Part Segmentation (OVPS) is an emerging field for recognizing fine-grained parts in unseen categories. We identify two primary challenges in OVPS: (1) the difficulty in aligning part-level image-text correspondence, and (2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Jiho Choi , Seonho Lee , Minhyun Lee , Seungho Lee , Hyunjung Shim

We present Seg-TTO, a novel framework for zero-shot, open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS), designed to excel in specialized domain tasks. While current open-vocabulary approaches show impressive performance on standard segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ulindu De Silva , Didula Samaraweera , Sasini Wanigathunga , Kavindu Kariyawasam , Kanchana Ranasinghe , Muzammal Naseer , Ranga Rodrigo