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Visual-textual correlations in the attention maps derived from text-to-image diffusion models are proven beneficial to dense visual prediction tasks, e.g., semantic segmentation. However, a significant challenge arises due to the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Jiayi Lin , Jiabo Huang , Jian Hu , Shaogang Gong

Recently, self-supervised large-scale visual pre-training models have shown great promise in representing pixel-level semantic relationships, significantly promoting the development of unsupervised dense prediction tasks, e.g., unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Kehan Li , Zhennan Wang , Zesen Cheng , Runyi Yu , Yian Zhao , Guoli Song , Chang Liu , Li Yuan , Jie Chen

Sketch semantic segmentation is a well-explored and pivotal problem in computer vision involving the assignment of pre-defined part labels to individual strokes. This paper presents ContextSeg - a simple yet highly effective approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Jiawei Wang , Changjian Li

Visual concept discovery has long been deemed important to improve interpretability of neural networks, because a bank of semantically meaningful concepts would provide us with a starting point for building machine learning models that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Haiyang Huang , Zhi Chen , Cynthia Rudin

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

The crux of learning vision-language models is to extract semantically aligned information from visual and linguistic data. Existing attempts usually face the problem of coarse alignment, e.g., the vision encoder struggles in localizing an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Qinying Liu , Wei Wu , Kecheng Zheng , Zhan Tong , Jiawei Liu , Yu Liu , Wei Chen , Zilei Wang , Yujun Shen

We propose a novel AutoRegressive Generation-based paradigm for image Segmentation (ARGenSeg), achieving multimodal understanding and pixel-level perception within a unified framework. Prior works integrating image segmentation into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xiaolong Wang , Lixiang Ru , Ziyuan Huang , Kaixiang Ji , Dandan Zheng , Jingdong Chen , Jun Zhou

Benefiting from the inductive biases learned from large-scale datasets, open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) leverages the power of vision-language models, such as CLIP, to achieve remarkable progress without requiring task-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Qiming Huang , Hao Ai , Jianbo Jiao

Fully supervised semantic segmentation learns from dense masks, which requires heavy annotation cost for closed set. In this paper, we use natural language as supervision without any pixel-level annotation for open world segmentation. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Yi Li , Huifeng Yao , Hualiang Wang , Xiaomeng Li

Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation (OVSS) assigns pixel-level labels from an open set of text-defined categories, demanding reliable generalization to unseen classes at inference. Although modern vision-language models (VLMs) support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Saikat Dutta , Biplab Banerjee , Hamid Rezatofighi

Incremental or continual learning has been extensively studied for image classification tasks to alleviate catastrophic forgetting, a phenomenon that earlier learned knowledge is forgotten when learning new concepts. For class incremental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Zekang Zhang , Guangyu Gao , Zhiyuan Fang , Jianbo Jiao , Yunchao Wei

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims to segment an image into semantic regions according to text descriptions, which may not have been seen during training. Recent two-stage methods first generate class-agnostic mask proposals and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Feng Liang , Bichen Wu , Xiaoliang Dai , Kunpeng Li , Yinan Zhao , Hang Zhang , Peizhao Zhang , Peter Vajda , Diana Marculescu

Open-vocabulary segmentation aims to identify and segment specific regions and objects based on text-based descriptions. A common solution is to leverage powerful vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, to bridge the gap between vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Bingyu Li , Da Zhang , Zhiyuan Zhao , Junyu Gao , Xuelong Li

Learning from a large corpus of data, pre-trained models have achieved impressive progress nowadays. As popular generative pre-training, diffusion models capture both low-level visual knowledge and high-level semantic relations. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Chaofan Ma , Yuhuan Yang , Chen Ju , Fei Zhang , Jinxiang Liu , Yu Wang , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

We present Seg-TTO, a novel framework for zero-shot, open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS), designed to excel in specialized domain tasks. While current open-vocabulary approaches show impressive performance on standard segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ulindu De Silva , Didula Samaraweera , Sasini Wanigathunga , Kavindu Kariyawasam , Kanchana Ranasinghe , Muzammal Naseer , Ranga Rodrigo

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

One of the main obstacles to 3D semantic segmentation is the significant amount of endeavor required to generate expensive point-wise annotations for fully supervised training. To alleviate manual efforts, we propose GIDSeg, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Peng Yin , Lingyun Xu , Jianmin Ji , Sebastian Scherer , Howie Choset

Object-aware reasoning in vision-language tasks poses significant challenges for current models, particularly in handling unseen objects, reducing hallucinations, and capturing fine-grained relationships in complex visual scenes. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Antonio Carlos Rivera , Anthony Moore , Steven Robinson

Observing the close relationship among panoptic, semantic and instance segmentation tasks, we propose to train a universal multi-dataset multi-task segmentation model: DaTaSeg.We use a shared representation (mask proposals with class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Xiuye Gu , Yin Cui , Jonathan Huang , Abdullah Rashwan , Xuan Yang , Xingyi Zhou , Golnaz Ghiasi , Weicheng Kuo , Huizhong Chen , Liang-Chieh Chen , David A Ross

Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) aims at segmenting and categorizing objects in videos from a closed set of training categories, lacking the generalization ability to handle novel categories in real-world videos. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Haochen Wang , Cilin Yan , Shuai Wang , Xiaolong Jiang , XU Tang , Yao Hu , Weidi Xie , Efstratios Gavves