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Semantic segmentation takes pivotal roles in various applications such as autonomous driving and medical image analysis. When deploying segmentation models in practice, it is critical to test their behaviors in varied and complex scenes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zijin Yin , Bing Li , Kongming Liang , Hao Sun , Zhongjiang He , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo

Open world image segmentation aims to achieve precise segmentation and semantic understanding of targets within images by addressing the infinitely open set of object categories encountered in the real world. However, traditional closed-set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Danyang Li , Tianhao Wu , Bin Li , Zhenyuan Chen , Yang Zhang , Yuxuan Li , Ming-Ming Cheng , Xiang Li

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation is a challenging task as it only takes image-level information as supervision for training but produces pixel-level predictions for testing. To address such a challenging task, most recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Bingfeng Zhang , Jimin Xiao , Yunchao Wei , Mingjie Sun , Kaizhu Huang

Recently, large-scale pre-trained models such as Segment-Anything Model (SAM) and Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) have demonstrated remarkable success and revolutionized the field of computer vision. These foundation vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Shichao Dong , Fayao Liu , Guosheng Lin

Semantic segmentation is the task of classifying each pixel in an image. Training a segmentation model achieves best results using annotated images, where each pixel is annotated with the corresponding class. When obtaining fine annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jort de Jong , Mike Holenderski

This paper proposes a novel self-supervised learning method for semantic segmentation using selective masking image reconstruction as the pretraining task. Our proposed method replaces the random masking augmentation used in most masked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yuemin Wang , Ian Stavness

Task-oriented grasping of unfamiliar objects is a necessary skill for robots in dynamic in-home environments. Inspired by the human capability to grasp such objects through intuition about their shape and structure, we present a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Samuel Li , Sarthak Bhagat , Joseph Campbell , Yaqi Xie , Woojun Kim , Katia Sycara , Simon Stepputtis

Producing quality segmentation masks for images is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Recent research has explored large-scale supervised training to enable zero-shot segmentation on virtually any image style and unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Junjiao Tian , Lavisha Aggarwal , Andrea Colaco , Zsolt Kira , Mar Gonzalez-Franco

Almost all existing deep learning approaches for semantic segmentation tackle this task as a pixel-wise classification problem. Yet humans understand a scene not in terms of pixels, but by decomposing it into perceptual groups and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Jyh-Jing Hwang , Stella X. Yu , Jianbo Shi , Maxwell D. Collins , Tien-Ju Yang , Xiao Zhang , Liang-Chieh Chen

We address the problem of discovering part segmentations of articulated objects without supervision. In contrast to keypoints, part segmentations provide information about part localizations on the level of individual pixels. Capturing both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Sandro Braun , Patrick Esser , Björn Ommer

This work proposes a novel method for object co-segmentation, i.e. pixel-level localization of a common object in a set of images, that uses no pixel-level supervision for training. Two pre-trained Vision Transformer (ViT) models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Nikolaos-Antonios Ypsilantis , Ondřej Chum

Existing semantic segmentation approaches are often limited by costly pixel-wise annotations and predefined classes. In this work, we present CLIP-S$^4$ that leverages self-supervised pixel representation learning and vision-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Wenbin He , Suphanut Jamonnak , Liang Gou , Liu Ren

One-shot semantic image segmentation aims to segment the object regions for the novel class with only one annotated image. Recent works adopt the episodic training strategy to mimic the expected situation at testing time. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Tao Chen , Guosen Xie , Yazhou Yao , Qiong Wang , Fumin Shen , Zhenmin Tang , Jian Zhang

Image segmentation is often ambiguous at the level of individual image patches and requires contextual information to reach label consensus. In this paper we introduce Segmenter, a transformer model for semantic segmentation. In contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Robin Strudel , Ricardo Garcia , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Large multimodal models (LMMs) exhibit strong task generalization capabilities, offering new opportunities for zero-shot visual anomaly segmentation (ZSAS). However, existing LMM-based segmentation approaches still face fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhen Qu , Xian Tao , Xiaoyi Bao , Dingrong Wang , ShiChen Qu , Zhengtao Zhang , Xingang Wang

We study the underexplored but fundamental vision problem of machine understanding of abstract freehand scene sketches. We introduce a sketch encoder that results in semantically-aware feature space, which we evaluate by testing its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Ahmed Bourouis , Judith Ellen Fan , Yulia Gryaditskaya

Zero-shot neural scene segmentation, which reconstructs 3D neural segmentation field without manual annotations, serves as an effective way for scene understanding. However, existing models, especially the efficient 3D Gaussian-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Bin Dou , Tianyu Zhang , Zhaohui Wang , Yongjia Ma , Zejian Yuan

Instruction-based image editing (IIE) models have recently demonstrated strong capability in modifying specific image regions according to natural language instructions, which implicitly requires identifying where an edit should be applied.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jingxuan He , Xiyu Wang , Yunke Wang , Mengyu Zheng , Chang Xu

We propose a novel zero-shot approach to computing correspondences between 3D shapes. Existing approaches mainly focus on isometric and near-isometric shape pairs (e.g., human vs. human), but less attention has been given to strongly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Ahmed Abdelreheem , Abdelrahman Eldesokey , Maks Ovsjanikov , Peter Wonka

Understanding 3D object shapes necessitates shape representation by object parts abstracted from results of instance and semantic segmentation. Promising shape representations enable computers to interpret a shape with meaningful parts and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jiaxin Li , Hongxing Wang , Jiawei Tan , Zhilong Ou , Junsong Yuan