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Foundation models have advanced computer vision by enabling strong performance across diverse tasks through large-scale pretraining and supervised fine-tuning. However, they may underperform in domains with distribution shifts and scarce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Jesimon Barreto , Carlos Caetano , André Araujo , William Robson Schwartz

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

We introduce the task of open-vocabulary 3D instance segmentation. Current approaches for 3D instance segmentation can typically only recognize object categories from a pre-defined closed set of classes that are annotated in the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Ayça Takmaz , Elisabetta Fedele , Robert W. Sumner , Marc Pollefeys , Federico Tombari , Francis Engelmann

We propose an embarrassingly simple point annotation scheme to collect weak supervision for instance segmentation. In addition to bounding boxes, we collect binary labels for a set of points uniformly sampled inside each bounding box. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Bowen Cheng , Omkar Parkhi , Alexander Kirillov

Occupancy prediction tasks focus on the inference of both geometry and semantic labels for each voxel, which is an important perception mission. However, it is still a semantic segmentation task without distinguishing various instances.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Zichao Dong , Hang Ji , Weikun Zhang , Xufeng Huang , Junbo Chen

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) aims to segment and recognize objects universally. Trained on extensive high-quality segmentation data, the segment anything model (SAM) has demonstrated remarkable universal segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Lin Chen , Yingjian Zhu , Qi Yang , Xin Niu , Kun Ding , Shiming Xiang

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment the target instance in a video, referred by a text expression. Conventional approaches are mostly supervised learning, requiring expensive pixel-level mask annotations. To tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Miaojing Shi , Jun Huang , Zijie Yue , Hanli Wang

In this work, we propose an open-vocabulary object detection method that, based on image-caption pairs, learns to detect novel object classes along with a given set of known classes. It is a two-stage training approach that first uses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Maria A. Bravo , Sudhanshu Mittal , Thomas Brox

Audio-visual segmentation is a challenging task that aims to predict pixel-level masks for sound sources in a video. Previous work applied a comprehensive manually designed architecture with countless pixel-wise accurate masks as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Shentong Mo , Bhiksha Raj

Video instance segmentation requires detecting, segmenting, and tracking objects in videos, typically relying on costly video annotations. This paper introduces a method that eliminates video annotations by utilizing image datasets. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Zhangjing Yang , Dun Liu , Xin Wang , Zhe Li , Barathwaj Anandan , Yi Wu

The recent advancement in Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) has largely been driven by the use of deeper and increasingly data-hungry transformer-based models. However, video masks are tedious and expensive to annotate, limiting the scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Lei Ke , Martin Danelljan , Henghui Ding , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang , Fisher Yu

Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) aims at segmenting images from free-form textual concepts without predefined training classes. While existing vision-language models such as CLIP can generate segmentation masks by leveraging coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Luca Barsellotti , Lorenzo Bianchi , Nicola Messina , Fabio Carrara , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Fabrizio Falchi , Rita Cucchiara

Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVOD) aims to detect novel objects beyond a given set of base categories on which the detection model is trained. Recent OVOD methods focus on adapting the image-level pre-trained vision-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Ruohuan Fang , Guansong Pang , Xiao Bai

Open-vocabulary object detection has benefited greatly from pretrained vision-language models, but is still limited by the amount of available detection training data. While detection training data can be expanded by using Web image-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Matthias Minderer , Alexey Gritsenko , Neil Houlsby

We introduce OV-MAP, a novel approach to open-world 3D mapping for mobile robots by integrating open-features into 3D maps to enhance object recognition capabilities. A significant challenge arises when overlapping features from adjacent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Juno Kim , Yesol Park , Hye-Jung Yoon , Byoung-Tak Zhang

Recent approaches for weakly supervised instance segmentations depend on two components: (i) a pseudo label generation model that provides instances which are consistent with a given annotation; and (ii) an instance segmentation model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Aditya Arun , C. V. Jawahar , M. Pawan Kumar

Locating and retrieving objects from scene-level point clouds is a challenging problem with broad applications in robotics and augmented reality. This task is commonly formulated as open-vocabulary 3D instance segmentation. Although recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Khanh Nguyen , Dasith de Silva Edirimuni , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Ajmal Mian

Video instance segmentation (VIS) is a challenging vision task that aims to detect, segment, and track objects in videos. Conventional VIS methods rely on densely-annotated object masks which are expensive. We reduce the human annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Shuaiyi Huang , De-An Huang , Zhiding Yu , Shiyi Lan , Subhashree Radhakrishnan , Jose M. Alvarez , Abhinav Shrivastava , Anima Anandkumar

Semantic occupancy prediction aims to infer dense geometry and semantics of surroundings for an autonomous agent to operate safely in the 3D environment. Existing occupancy prediction methods are almost entirely trained on human-annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Zhiyu Tan , Zichao Dong , Cheng Zhang , Weikun Zhang , Hang Ji , Hao Li

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