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Vision-language models are pre-trained by aligning image-text pairs in a common space to deal with open-set visual concepts. To boost the transferability of the pre-trained models, recent works adopt fixed or learnable prompts, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jiangmeng Li , Wenyi Mo , Wenwen Qiang , Bing Su , Changwen Zheng , Hui Xiong , Ji-Rong Wen

The objective of this work is to explore how to effectively and efficiently adapt pre-trained visual foundation models to various downstream tasks of semantic segmentation. Previous methods usually fine-tuned the entire networks for each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Lingbo Liu , Jianlong Chang , Bruce X. B. Yu , Liang Lin , Qi Tian , Chang-Wen Chen

Pathology image segmentation is crucial in computational pathology for analyzing histological features relevant to cancer diagnosis and prognosis. However, current methods face major challenges in clinical applications due to limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Zhixuan Chen , Junlin Hou , Liqi Lin , Yihui Wang , Yequan Bie , Xi Wang , Yanning Zhou , Ronald Cheong Kin Chan , Hao Chen

While Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has advanced open-vocabulary predictions, its performance on semantic segmentation remains suboptimal. This shortfall primarily stems from its spatial-invariant semantic features and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Yuheng Shi , Minjing Dong , Chang Xu

Deploying large multimodal language models at scale is constrained by token-based inference costs, yet the cost-performance behavior of visual prompting strategies remains poorly characterized. We introduce Image Prompt Packaging (IPPg), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Joong Ho Choi , Jiayang Zhao , Avani Appalla , Himansh Mukesh , Dhwanil Vasani , Boyi Qian

The ideal goal of image matching is to achieve stable and efficient performance in unseen domains. However, many existing learning-based optical-SAR image matching methods, despite their effectiveness in specific scenarios, exhibit limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Han Nie , Bin Luo , Jun Liu , Zhitao Fu , Huan Zhou , Shuo Zhang , Weixing Liu

Image restoration, which aims to retrieve and enhance degraded images, is fundamental across a wide range of applications. While conventional deep learning approaches have notably improved the image quality across various tasks, they still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Zilong Li , Yiming Lei , Chenglong Ma , Junping Zhang , Hongming Shan

Diffusion models equipped with language models demonstrate excellent controllability in image generation tasks, allowing image processing to adhere to human instructions. However, the lack of diverse instruction-following data hampers the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Yongsheng Yu , Ziyun Zeng , Hang Hua , Jianlong Fu , Jiebo Luo

Interactive medical image segmentation refers to the accurate segmentation of the target of interest through interaction (e.g., click) between the user and the image. It has been widely studied in recent years as it is less dependent on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Ao Chang , Xing Tao , Xin Yang , Yuhao Huang , Xinrui Zhou , Jiajun Zeng , Ruobing Huang , Dong Ni

In this work, we address in-context learning (ICL) for the task of image segmentation, introducing a novel approach that adapts a modern Video Object Segmentation (VOS) technique for visual in-context learning. This adaptation is inspired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Thomas Foster , Ioana Croitoru , Robert Dorfman , Christoffer Edlund , Thomas Varsavsky , Jon Almazán

Although the Segment Anything Model (SAM) is highly effective in natural image segmentation, it requires dependencies on prompts, which limits its applicability to medical imaging where manual prompts are often unavailable. Existing efforts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Mengmeng Zhang , Xingyuan Dai , Yicheng Sun , Jing Wang , Yueyang Yao , Xiaoyan Gong , Fuze Cong , Feiyue Wang , Yisheng Lv

In this study, we propose NOVO (NO text, Visual-Only prompts), a novel framework that bridges vision-language models (VLMs) and segmentation models through visual-only prompts. Unlike prior approaches that feed text-derived SEG token…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Kyung-Yoon Yoon , Yeong-Jun Cho

Open-world semantic segmentation presently relies significantly on extensive image-text pair datasets, which often suffer from a lack of fine-grained pixel annotations on sufficient categories. The acquisition of such data is rendered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Kaixin Cai , Pengzhen Ren , Jianhua Han , Yi Zhu , Hang Xu , Jianzhuang Liu , Xiaodan Liang

Modern supervised semantic segmentation methods are usually finetuned based on the supervised or self-supervised models pre-trained on ImageNet. Recent work shows that transferring the knowledge from CLIP to semantic segmentation via prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Chaohui Yu , Qiang Zhou , Zhibin Wang , Fan Wang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits remarkable versatility and zero-shot learning abilities, owing largely to its extensive training data (SA-1B). Recognizing SAM's dependency on manual guidance given its category-agnostic nature, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Xiyu Qi , Yifan Wu , Yongqiang Mao , Wenhui Zhang , Yidan Zhang

This work proposes POMP, a prompt pre-training method for vision-language models. Being memory and computation efficient, POMP enables the learned prompt to condense semantic information for a rich set of visual concepts with over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shuhuai Ren , Aston Zhang , Yi Zhu , Shuai Zhang , Shuai Zheng , Mu Li , Alex Smola , Xu Sun

Interactive video object segmentation is a crucial video task, having various applications from video editing to data annotating. However, current approaches struggle to accurately segment objects across diverse domains. Recently, Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Xiaoli Wei , Zhaoqing Wang , Yandong Guo , Chunxia Zhang , Tongliang Liu , Mingming Gong

Recent generative models demonstrate impressive performance on synthesizing photographic images, which makes humans hardly to distinguish them from pristine ones, especially on realistic-looking synthetic facial images. Previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Hao Wang , Cheng Deng , Zhidong Zhao

Prompt learning is one of the most effective and trending ways to adapt powerful vision-language foundation models like CLIP to downstream datasets by tuning learnable prompt vectors with very few samples. However, although prompt learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Cairong Zhao , Yubin Wang , Xinyang Jiang , Yifei Shen , Kaitao Song , Dongsheng Li , Duoqian Miao

Video reasoning segmentation requires localizing objects across video frames from natural language expressions, often involving spatial reasoning and implicit references. Recent approaches leverage frozen large vision-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ali Cheraghian , Hamidreza Dastmalchi , Abdelwahed Khamis , Morteza Saberi , Aijun An , Lars Petersson