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General scene perception has progressed from object recognition toward open-vocabulary grounding, part localization, and affordance prediction. Yet these capabilities are often realized as isolated predictions that localize objects, parts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Pengxin Xu , Xincheng Lin , Luping Xiao , Qing Jiang , Meishan Zhang , Hao Fei , Shanghang Zhang , Xingyu Chen

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

The semantic image segmentation task consists of classifying each pixel of an image into an instance, where each instance corresponds to a class. This task is a part of the concept of scene understanding or better explaining the global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Saeid Asgari Taghanaki , Kumar Abhishek , Joseph Paul Cohen , Julien Cohen-Adad , Ghassan Hamarneh

Accurate understanding of anatomical structures is essential for reliably staging certain dental diseases. A way of introducing this within semantic segmentation models is by utilising hierarchy-aware methodologies. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Ryan Banks , Camila Lindoni Azevedo , Hongying Tang , Yunpeng Li

We introduce a deep learning image segmentation framework that is extremely robust to missing imaging modalities. Instead of attempting to impute or synthesize missing data, the proposed approach learns, for each modality, an embedding of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Mohammad Havaei , Nicolas Guizard , Nicolas Chapados , Yoshua Bengio

This paper proposes a semantic segmentation method for outdoor scenes captured by a surveillance camera. Our algorithm classifies each perceptually homogenous region as one of the predefined classes learned from a collection of manually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-05-15 Wassim Bouachir , Atousa Torabi , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Pascal Blais

In recent years, vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced open-vocabulary mapping, enabling mobile robots to simultaneously achieve environmental reconstruction and high-level semantic understanding. While integrated object cognition…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yinan Deng , Bicheng Yao , Yihang Tang , Yi Yang , Yufeng Yue

The recent years have witnessed the remarkable development for open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) using visual-language foundation models, yet still suffer from following fundamental challenges: (1) insufficient cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jing Wang , Huimin Shi , Quan Zhou , Qibo Liu , Suofei Zhang , Huimin Lu

Event cameras, known for low-latency operation and superior performance in challenging lighting conditions, are suitable for sensitive computer vision tasks such as semantic segmentation in autonomous driving. However, challenges arise due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Muhammad Rameez Ur Rahman , Jhony H. Giraldo , Indro Spinelli , Stéphane Lathuilière , Fabio Galasso

This paper proposes a novel method for high-quality image segmentation of both objects and scenes. Inspired by the dilation and erosion operations in morphological image processing techniques, the pixel-level image segmentation problems are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Hao He , Xiangtai Li , Yibo Yang , Guangliang Cheng , Yunhai Tong , Lubin Weng , Zhouchen Lin , Shiming Xiang

To fully understand the 3D context of a single image, a visual system must be able to segment both the visible and occluded regions of objects, while discerning their occlusion order. Ideally, the system should be able to handle any object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Jiayang Ao , Qiuhong Ke , Krista A. Ehinger

Image captioning models are becoming increasingly successful at describing the content of images in restricted domains. However, if these models are to function in the wild - for example, as assistants for people with impaired vision - a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Peter Anderson , Stephen Gould , Mark Johnson

Open-vocabulary human-object interaction (HOI) detection, which is concerned with the problem of detecting novel HOIs guided by natural language, is crucial for understanding human-centric scenes. However, prior zero-shot HOI detectors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Ting Lei , Shaofeng Yin , Yang Liu

Autonomous navigation in unstructured off-road environments is greatly improved by semantic scene understanding. Conventional image processing algorithms are difficult to implement and lack robustness due to a lack of structure and high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Anthony Medellin , Anant Bhamri , Reza Langari , Swaminathan Gopalswamy

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation presents the challenge of labeling each pixel within an image based on a wide range of text descriptions. In this work, we introduce a novel cost-based approach to adapt vision-language foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Seokju Cho , Heeseong Shin , Sunghwan Hong , Anurag Arnab , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Seungryong Kim

Hypernymy, textual entailment, and image captioning can be seen as special cases of a single visual-semantic hierarchy over words, sentences, and images. In this paper we advocate for explicitly modeling the partial order structure of this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Ivan Vendrov , Ryan Kiros , Sanja Fidler , Raquel Urtasun

Open-vocabulary scene understanding aims to localize and recognize unseen categories beyond the annotated label space. The recent breakthrough of 2D open-vocabulary perception is largely driven by Internet-scale paired image-text data with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Runyu Ding , Jihan Yang , Chuhui Xue , Wenqing Zhang , Song Bai , Xiaojuan Qi

Most recent 3D instance segmentation methods are open vocabulary, offering a greater flexibility than closed-vocabulary methods. Yet, they are limited to reasoning within a specific set of concepts, \ie the vocabulary, prompted by the user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Guofeng Mei , Luigi Riz , Yiming Wang , Fabio Poiesi

The emergence of CLIP has opened the way for open-world image perception. The zero-shot classification capabilities of the model are impressive but are harder to use for dense tasks such as image segmentation. Several methods have proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Monika Wysoczańska , Michaël Ramamonjisoa , Tomasz Trzciński , Oriane Siméoni

Machine-learning algorithms offer immense possibilities in the development of several cognitive applications. In fact, large scale machine-learning classifiers now represent the state-of-the-art in a wide range of object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Priyadarshini Panda , Swagath Venkataramani , Abhronil Sengupta , Anand Raghunathan , Kaushik Roy