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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

The popular CLIP model displays impressive zero-shot capabilities thanks to its seamless interaction with arbitrary text prompts. However, its lack of spatial awareness makes it unsuitable for dense computer vision tasks, e.g., semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Monika Wysoczańska , Oriane Siméoni , Michaël Ramamonjisoa , Andrei Bursuc , Tomasz Trzciński , Patrick Pérez

Open-world and anomaly segmentation methods seek to enable autonomous driving systems to detect and segment both known and unknown objects in real-world scenes. However, existing methods do not assign semantically meaningful labels to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Klara Reichard , Nikolas Brasch , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Despite the significant progress in deep learning for dense visual recognition problems, such as semantic segmentation, traditional methods are constrained by fixed class sets. Meanwhile, vision-language foundation models, such as CLIP,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Sina Hajimiri , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jose Dolz

This paper presents a novel training-free framework for open-vocabulary image segmentation and object recognition (OVSR), which leverages EfficientNetB0, a convolutional neural network, for unsupervised segmentation and CLIP, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ying Dai , Wei Yu Chen

Pre-trained vision-language models, e.g., CLIP, have been successfully applied to zero-shot semantic segmentation. Existing CLIP-based approaches primarily utilize visual features from the last layer to align with text embeddings, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yunheng Li , ZhongYu Li , Quansheng Zeng , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng

Recently, open-vocabulary image classification by vision language pre-training has demonstrated incredible achievements, that the model can classify arbitrary categories without seeing additional annotated images of that category. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Mengde Xu , Zheng Zhang , Fangyun Wei , Yutong Lin , Yue Cao , Han Hu , Xiang Bai

The application of zero-shot learning in computer vision has been revolutionized by the use of image-text matching models. The most notable example, CLIP, has been widely used for both zero-shot classification and guiding generative models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Roni Paiss , Hila Chefer , Lior Wolf

Recent advancements in pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP have enabled the task of open-vocabulary segmentation. CLIP demonstrates impressive zero-shot capabilities in various downstream tasks that require holistic image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Sule Bai , Yong Liu , Yifei Han , Haoji Zhang , Yansong Tang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Recent works utilize CLIP to perform the challenging unsupervised semantic segmentation task where only images without annotations are available. However, we observe that when adopting CLIP to such a pixel-level understanding task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jingyun Wang , Guoliang Kang

Segmentation of anatomical structures and pathological regions in medical images is essential for modern clinical diagnosis, disease research, and treatment planning. While significant advancements have been made in deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Taha Koleilat , Hojat Asgariandehkordi , Hassan Rivaz , Yiming Xiao

Pretrained vision-language models, such as CLIP, show promising zero-shot performance across a wide variety of datasets. For closed-set classification tasks, however, there is an inherent limitation: CLIP image encoders are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Piyapat Saranrittichai , Mauricio Munoz , Volker Fischer , Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi

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

In this paper, we tackle an emerging computer vision task, open-vocabulary universal image segmentation, that aims to perform semantic/instance/panoptic segmentation (background semantic labeling + foreground instance segmentation) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Zheng Ding , Jieke Wang , Zhuowen Tu

Image clustering is an important and open-challenging task in computer vision. Although many methods have been proposed to solve the image clustering task, they only explore images and uncover clusters according to the image features, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Shaotian Cai , Liping Qiu , Xiaojun Chen , Qin Zhang , Longteng Chen

While Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has advanced open-vocabulary predictions, its performance on semantic segmentation remains suboptimal. This shortfall primarily stems from its spatial-invariant semantic features and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Yuheng Shi , Minjing Dong , Chang Xu

Large-scale Pre-Training Vision-Language Model such as CLIP has demonstrated outstanding performance in zero-shot classification, e.g. achieving 76.3% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet without seeing any example, which leads to potential benefits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Xuefeng Hu , Ke Zhang , Lu Xia , Albert Chen , Jiajia Luo , Yuyin Sun , Ken Wang , Nan Qiao , Xiao Zeng , Min Sun , Cheng-Hao Kuo , Ram Nevatia

Few-shot segmentation remains challenging due to the limitations of its labeling information for unseen classes. Most previous approaches rely on extracting high-level feature maps from the frozen visual encoder to compute the pixel-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Jin Wang , Bingfeng Zhang , Jian Pang , Honglong Chen , Weifeng Liu

Existing machine learning models demonstrate excellent performance in image object recognition after training on a large-scale dataset under full supervision. However, these models only learn to map an image to a predefined class index,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Kai Han , Xiaohu Huang , Yandong Li , Sagar Vaze , Jie Li , Xuhui Jia

In this paper, we propose an embarrassingly simple yet highly effective zero-shot semantic segmentation (ZS3) method, based on the pre-trained vision-language model CLIP. First, our study provides a couple of key discoveries: (i) the global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Letian Wu , Wenyao Zhang , Tengping Jiang , Wankou Yang , Xin Jin , Wenjun Zeng