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Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVS) aims to segment images of arbitrary categories specified by class labels or captions. However, most previous best-performing methods, whether pixel grouping methods or region recognition methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yuan Wang , Rui Sun , Naisong Luo , Yuwen Pan , Tianzhu Zhang

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

This paper proposes a novel method for segmentation of images by hierarchical multilevel thresholding. The method is global, agglomerative in nature and disregards pixel locations. It involves the optimization of the ratio of the unbiased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-12-27 Sreechakra Goparaju , Jayadev Acharya , Ajoy K. Ray , Jaideva C. Goswami

The random walker method for image segmentation is a popular tool for semi-automatic image segmentation, especially in the biomedical field. However, its linear asymptotic run time and memory requirements make application to 3D datasets of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Dominik Drees , Florian Eilers , Xiaoyi Jiang

Remote sensing image plays an irreplaceable role in fields such as agriculture, water resources, military, and disaster relief. Pixel-level interpretation is a critical aspect of remote sensing image applications; however, a prevalent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Kaiyu Li , Ruixun Liu , Xiangyong Cao , Xueru Bai , Feng Zhou , Deyu Meng , Zhi Wang

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) aims to segment arbitrary category regions in images using open-vocabulary prompts, necessitating that existing methods possess pixel-level vision-language alignment capability. Typically, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Jiahao Li , Yang Lu , Yachao Zhang , Fangyong Wang , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu

This paper aims to address universal segmentation for image and video perception with the strong reasoning ability empowered by Visual Large Language Models (VLLMs). Despite significant progress in current unified segmentation methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Cong Wei , Yujie Zhong , Haoxian Tan , Yong Liu , Zheng Zhao , Jie Hu , Yujiu Yang

Unsupervised localization and segmentation are long-standing computer vision challenges that involve decomposing an image into semantically-meaningful segments without any labeled data. These tasks are particularly interesting in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Luke Melas-Kyriazi , Christian Rupprecht , Iro Laina , Andrea Vedaldi

One key challenge in augmented reality is the placement of virtual content in natural locations. Existing automated techniques are only able to work with a closed-vocabulary, fixed set of objects. In this paper, we introduce a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Luke Yoffe , Aditya Sharma , Tobias Höllerer

Visual relationship understanding has been studied separately in human-object interaction(HOI) detection, scene graph generation(SGG), and referring relationships(RR) tasks. Given the complexity and interconnectedness of these tasks, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Fangrui Zhu , Jianwei Yang , Huaizu Jiang

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation is a challenging task, which requires the model to output semantic masks of an image beyond a close-set vocabulary. Although many efforts have been made to utilize powerful CLIP models to accomplish…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Xiangheng Shan , Dongyue Wu , Guilin Zhu , Yuanjie Shao , Nong Sang , Changxin Gao

Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) aims to precisely outline audible objects in a visual scene at the pixel level. Existing AVS methods require fine-grained annotations of audio-mask pairs in supervised learning fashion. This limits their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Swapnil Bhosale , Haosen Yang , Diptesh Kanojia , Xiatian Zhu

For the semantic segmentation of images, state-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs) achieve high segmentation accuracy if that task is restricted to a closed set of classes. However, as of now DNNs have limited ability to operate in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Svenja Uhlemeyer , Matthias Rottmann , Hanno Gottschalk

We propose a novel method for unsupervised semantic image segmentation based on mutual information maximization between local and global high-level image features. The core idea of our work is to leverage recent progress in self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Robert Harb , Patrick Knöbelreiter

Image segmentation has been a very active research topic in image analysis area. Currently, most of the image segmentation algorithms are designed based on the idea that images are partitioned into a set of regions preserving homogeneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Yu Su , Margaret H. Dunham

Online construction of open-ended language scenes is crucial for robotic applications, where open-vocabulary interactive scene understanding is required. Recently, neural implicit representation has provided a promising direction for online…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Muer Tie , Julong Wei , Zhengjun Wang , Ke Wu , Shansuai Yuan , Kaizhao Zhang , Jie Jia , Jieru Zhao , Zhongxue Gan , Wenchao Ding

Open-vocabulary panoptic segmentation aims to segment and classify everything in diverse scenes across an unbounded vocabulary. Existing methods typically employ two-stage or single-stage framework. The two-stage framework involves cropping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Hongwei Niu , Jie Hu , Jianghang Lin , Guannan Jiang , Shengchuan Zhang

We propose OpenVoxel, a training-free algorithm for grouping and captioning sparse voxels for the open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding tasks. Given the sparse voxel rasterization (SVR) model obtained from multi-view images of a 3D scene,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Sheng-Yu Huang , Jaesung Choe , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Cheng Sun

In this work, we present COSINE, a unified open-world segmentation model that consolidates open-vocabulary segmentation and in-context segmentation with multi-modal prompts (e.g., text and image). COSINE exploits foundation models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yang Liu , Yufei Yin , Chenchen Jing , Muzhi Zhu , Hao Chen , Yuling Xi , Bo Feng , Hao Wang , Shiyu Li , Chunhua Shen

High-resolution semantic segmentation requires substantial computational resources. Traditional approaches in the field typically downscale the input images before processing and then upscale the low-resolution outputs back to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Ritambhara Singh , Abhishek Jain , Pietro Perona , Shivani Agarwal , Junfeng Yang