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Recently, methods have been proposed for 3D open-vocabulary semantic segmentation. Such methods are able to segment scenes into arbitrary classes based on text descriptions provided during runtime. In this paper, we propose to the best of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Haoran Chen , Kenneth Blomqvist , Francesco Milano , Roland Siegwart

Automatic segmentation of neuronal topology is critical for handling large scale neuroimaging data, as it can greatly accelerate neuron annotation and analysis. However, the intricate morphology of neuronal branches and the occlusions among…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-01 Huayu Fu , Jiamin Li , Haozhi Qu , Xiaolin Hu , Zengcai Guo

Semantic segmentation is one of the most fundamental tasks in image understanding with a long history of research, and subsequently a myriad of different approaches. Traditional methods strive to train models up from scratch, requiring vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Naomi Kombol , Ivan Martinović , Siniša Šegvić

We present an end-to-end network to bridge the gap between training and inference pipeline for panoptic segmentation, a task that seeks to partition an image into semantic regions for "stuff" and object instances for "things". In contrast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Qizhu Li , Xiaojuan Qi , Philip H. S. Torr

Reliable scene understanding is indispensable for modern autonomous systems. Current learning-based methods typically try to maximize their performance based on segmentation metrics that only consider the quality of the segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Kshitij Sirohi , Sajad Marvi , Daniel Büscher , Wolfram Burgard

Semantic segmentation is a computer vision task that associates a label with each pixel in an image. Modern approaches tend to introduce class embeddings into semantic segmentation for deeply utilizing category semantics, and regard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Yuhe Liu , Chuanjian Liu , Kai Han , Quan Tang , Zengchang Qin

Visual perception plays a pivotal role in enabling autonomous behavior, offering a cost-effective and efficient alternative to complex multi-sensor systems. However, robust segmentation remains a challenge in complex scenarios. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Hewen Xiao , Jie Mei , Guangfu Ma , Weiren Wu

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

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) involves assigning labels to each pixel in an image based on textual descriptions, leveraging world models like CLIP. However, they encounter significant challenges in cross-domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Aniruddh Sikdar , Aditya Gandhamal , Suresh Sundaram

In the field of visual scene understanding, deep neural networks have made impressive advancements in various core tasks like segmentation, tracking, and detection. However, most approaches operate on the close-set assumption, meaning that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Jianzong Wu , Xiangtai Li , Shilin Xu , Haobo Yuan , Henghui Ding , Yibo Yang , Xia Li , Jiangning Zhang , Yunhai Tong , Xudong Jiang , Bernard Ghanem , Dacheng Tao

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

Existing open-vocabulary 3D semantic segmentation methods typically supervise 3D segmentation models by merging text-aligned features (e.g., CLIP) extracted from multi-view images onto 3D points. However, such approaches treat multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shiqi Zhang , Sha Zhang , Jiajun Deng , Yedong Shen , Mingxiao MA , Yanyong Zhang

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) underpins many vision and robotics tasks that require generalizable semantic understanding. Existing approaches either rely on limited segmentation training data, which hinders generalization, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Omar Alama , Darshil Jariwala , Avigyan Bhattacharya , Seungchan Kim , Wenshan Wang , Sebastian Scherer

Names are essential to both human cognition and vision-language models. Open-vocabulary models utilize class names as text prompts to generalize to categories unseen during training. However, the precision of these names is often overlooked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Haiwen Huang , Songyou Peng , Dan Zhang , Andreas Geiger

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 research on representation learning has proved the merits of multi-modal clues for robust semantic segmentation. Nevertheless, a flexible pretrain-and-finetune pipeline for multiple visual modalities remains unexplored. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Bo-Wen Yin , Jiao-Long Cao , Xuying Zhang , Yuming Chen , Ming-Ming Cheng , Qibin Hou

Vision-language models (VLMs) excel in visual understanding but often lack reliable grounding capabilities and actionable inference rates. Integrating them with open-vocabulary object detection (OVD), instance segmentation, and tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Bastian Pätzold , Jan Nogga , Sven Behnke

Recognizing arbitrary objects in the wild has been a challenging problem due to the limitations of existing classification models and datasets. In this paper, we propose a new task that aims at parsing scenes with a large and open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Hang Zhao , Xavier Puig , Bolei Zhou , Sanja Fidler , Antonio Torralba

Most existing remote sensing instance segmentation approaches are designed for close-vocabulary prediction, limiting their ability to recognize novel categories or generalize across datasets. This restricts their applicability in diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Shiqi Huang , Shuting He , Huaiyuan Qin , Bihan Wen

Open-vocabulary object detection is the task of accurately detecting objects from a candidate vocabulary list that includes both base and novel categories. Currently, numerous open-vocabulary detectors have achieved success by leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Ruizhe Zeng , Lu Zhang , Xu Yang , Zhiyong Liu