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Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims to assign pixel-level labels to images across an unlimited range of classes. Traditional methods address this by sequentially connecting a powerful mask proposal generator, such as the Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Minhyeok Lee , Suhwan Cho , Jungho Lee , Sunghun Yang , Heeseung Choi , Ig-Jae Kim , Sangyoun Lee

Open-vocabulary image segmentation has been advanced through the synergy between mask generators and vision-language models like Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP). Previous approaches focus on generating masks while aligning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Quan-Sheng Zeng , Yunheng Li , Daquan Zhou , Guanbin Li , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng

Earth observation (EO) spans a broad spectrum of modalities, including optical, radar, multispectral, and hyperspectral data, each capturing distinct environmental signals. However, current vision-language models in EO, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Zhitong Xiong , Yi Wang , Weikang Yu , Adam J Stewart , Jie Zhao , Nils Lehmann , Thomas Dujardin , Zhenghang Yuan , Pedram Ghamisi , Xiao Xiang Zhu

We propose a new setting for detecting unseen objects called Zero-shot Annotation object Detection (ZAD). It expands the zero-shot object detection setting by allowing the novel objects to exist in the training images and restricts the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Zhuoming Liu , Xuefeng Hu , Ram Nevatia

Recent advancements in pre-trained vision-language models, such as CLIP, have enabled the segmentation of arbitrary concepts solely from textual inputs, a process commonly referred to as open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVS). However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Kunyang Han , Yong Liu , Jun Hao Liew , Henghui Ding , Yunchao Wei , Jiajun Liu , Yitong Wang , Yansong Tang , Yujiu Yang , Jiashi Feng , Yao Zhao

Vision foundation models have shown great promise for open-set 3D object retrieval (3DOR) through efficient adaptation to multi-view images. Leveraging semantically aligned latent space, previous work typically adapts the CLIP encoder to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Xinwei He , Yansong Zheng , Qianru Han , Zhichuan Wang , Yuxuan Cai , Yang Zhou , Jingbo Xia , Yulong Wang , Jinhai Xiang , Xiang Bai

Image-Text pretraining on web-scale image caption datasets has become the default recipe for open vocabulary classification and retrieval models thanks to the success of CLIP and its variants. Several works have also used CLIP features for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Muhammad Ferjad Naeem , Yongqin Xian , Xiaohua Zhai , Lukas Hoyer , Luc Van Gool , Federico Tombari

Open-Set Domain Generalization (OSDG) tackles the realistic scenario where deployed models encounter both domain shifts and novel object categories. Despite impressive progress with vision-language models like CLIP, existing methods still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Yunyun Wang , Zheng Duan , Xinyue Liao , Ke-Jia Chen , Songcan Chen

Contrastive pre-training on image-text pairs, exemplified by CLIP, becomes a standard technique for learning multi-modal visual-language representations. Although CLIP has demonstrated remarkable performance, training it from scratch on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jihao Liu , Jinliang Zheng , Boxiao Liu , Yu Liu , Hongsheng Li

Recent advancements in pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP have enabled the task of open-vocabulary segmentation. CLIP demonstrates impressive zero-shot capabilities in various downstream tasks that require holistic image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Sule Bai , Yong Liu , Yifei Han , Haoji Zhang , Yansong Tang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

In this paper, we tackle an emerging computer vision task, open-vocabulary universal image segmentation, that aims to perform semantic/instance/panoptic segmentation (background semantic labeling + foreground instance segmentation) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Zheng Ding , Jieke Wang , Zhuowen Tu

Vision-language models like CLIP excel at recognizing the single, prominent object in a scene. However, they struggle in complex scenes containing multiple objects. We identify a fundamental reason for this limitation: VLM feature space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Samyak Rawlekar , Yujun Cai , Yiwei Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Narendra Ahuja

Recent advances in visual-language models have shown remarkable zero-shot text-image matching ability that is transferable to downstream tasks such as object detection and segmentation. Adapting these models for object counting, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Ruixiang Jiang , Lingbo Liu , Changwen Chen

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) exhibits strong zero-shot classification ability on various image-level tasks, leading to the research to adapt CLIP for pixel-level open-vocabulary semantic segmentation without additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Lin Sun , Jiale Cao , Jin Xie , Xiaoheng Jiang , Yanwei Pang

Current audio-visual representation learning can capture rough object categories (e.g., ``animals'' and ``instruments''), but it lacks the ability to recognize fine-grained details, such as specific categories like ``dogs'' and ``flutes''…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Shota Nakada , Taichi Nishimura , Hokuto Munakata , Masayoshi Kondo , Tatsuya Komatsu

We present OpenSeeD, a simple Open-vocabulary Segmentation and Detection framework that jointly learns from different segmentation and detection datasets. To bridge the gap of vocabulary and annotation granularity, we first introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Hao Zhang , Feng Li , Xueyan Zou , Shilong Liu , Chunyuan Li , Jianfeng Gao , Jianwei Yang , Lei Zhang

Object detection (OD) in computer vision has made significant progress in recent years, transitioning from closed-set labels to open-vocabulary detection (OVD) based on large-scale vision-language pre-training (VLP). However, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yiyang Yao , Peng Liu , Tiancheng Zhao , Qianqian Zhang , Jiajia Liao , Chunxin Fang , Kyusong Lee , Qing Wang

Deep-learning and large scale language-image training have produced image object detectors that generalise well to diverse environments and semantic classes. However, single-image object detectors trained on internet data are not optimally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Nicolas Harvey Chapman , Feras Dayoub , Will Browne , Chris Lehnert

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) enables models to recognize objects beyond predefined categories, but existing approaches remain limited in practical deployment. On the one hand, multimodal designs often incur substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Siheng Wang , Yanshu Li , Bohan Hu , Zhengdao Li , Haibo Zhan , Linshan Li , Weiming Liu , Ruizhi Qian , Guangxin Wu , Hao Zhang , Jifeng Shen , Piotr Koniusz , Zhengtao Yao , Junhao Dong , Qiang Sun

Recently, the strong generalization ability of CLIP has facilitated open-vocabulary semantic segmentation, which labels pixels using arbitrary text. However, existing methods that fine-tune CLIP for segmentation on limited seen categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Muyao Yuan , Yuanhong Zhang , Weizhan Zhang , Lan Ma , Yuan Gao , Jiangyong Ying , Yudeng Xin