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The Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) task aims to segment sounding objects in the visual space using audio cues. However, in this work, it is recognized that previous AVS methods show a heavy reliance on detrimental segmentation preferences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yaoting Wang , Peiwen Sun , Yuanchao Li , Honggang Zhang , Di Hu

In semi-supervised semantic segmentation, existing studies have shown promising results in academic settings with controlled splits of benchmark datasets. However, the potential benefits of leveraging significantly larger sets of unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Wooseok Shin , Jisu Kang , Hyeonki Jeong , Jin Sob Kim , Sung Won Han

Image segmentation beyond predefined categories is a key challenge in remote sensing, where novel and unseen classes often emerge during inference. Open-vocabulary image Segmentation addresses these generalization issues in traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Saikat Dutta , Akhil Vasim , Siddhant Gole , Hamid Rezatofighi , Biplab Banerjee

Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) has drawn increasing attention for its capacity to generalize segmentation beyond predefined categories. However, existing methods typically predict segmentation masks with simple forward inference,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Zongyan Han , Jiale Cao , Shuo Chen , Tong Wang , Jorma Laaksonen , Rao Muhammad Anwer

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims to assign semantic labels to each pixel without being constrained by a predefined set of categories. While Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) excels in zero-shot classification, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Dengke Zhang , Fagui Liu , Quan Tang

Training-free open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVS) aims to segment images given a set of arbitrary textual categories without costly model fine-tuning. Existing solutions often explore attention mechanisms of pre-trained models, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Xiwei Xuan , Ziquan Deng , Kwan-Liu Ma

To bridge the gap between supervised semantic segmentation and real-world applications that acquires one model to recognize arbitrary new concepts, recent zero-shot segmentation attracts a lot of attention by exploring the relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Quande Liu , Youpeng Wen , Jianhua Han , Chunjing Xu , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang

Understanding open-world semantics is critical for robotic planning and control, particularly in unstructured outdoor environments. Existing vision-language mapping approaches typically rely on object-centric segmentation priors, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Simon Schwaiger , Stefan Thalhammer , Wilfried Wöber , Gerald Steinbauer-Wagner

Open-Vocabulary Camouflaged Object Segmentation (OVCOS) seeks to segment and classify camouflaged objects from arbitrary categories, presenting unique challenges due to visual ambiguity and unseen categories.Recent approaches typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kai Zhao , Wubang Yuan , Zheng Wang , Guanyi Li , Xiaoqiang Zhu , Deng-ping Fan , Dan Zeng

3D part segmentation is still an open problem in the field of 3D vision and AR/VR. Due to limited 3D labeled data, traditional supervised segmentation methods fall short in generalizing to unseen shapes and categories. Recently, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Keito Suzuki , Bang Du , Girish Krishnan , Kunyao Chen , Runfa Blark Li , Truong Nguyen

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) in remote sensing images is a promising task that employs textual descriptions for identifying undefined land cover categories. Despite notable advances, existing methods typically employ a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Guanchun Wang , Chenxiao Wu , Xiangrong Zhang , Zelin Peng , Jianxun Lai , Tianyang Zhang , Xu Tang

Recently, Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have advanced segmentation techniques by shifting from the traditional segmentation of a closed-set of predefined object classes to open-vocabulary segmentation (OVS), allowing users to segment novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Gonca Yilmaz , Songyou Peng , Marc Pollefeys , Francis Engelmann , Hermann Blum

This paper presents an Open-Vocabulary Online 3D semantic mapping pipeline, that we denote by its acronym OVO. Given a sequence of posed RGB-D frames, we detect and track 3D segments, which we describe using CLIP vectors. These are computed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Tomas Berriel Martins , Martin R. Oswald , Javier Civera

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

Ambiguity poses persistent challenges in natural language understanding for large language models (LLMs). To better understand how lexical ambiguity can be resolved through the visual domain, we develop an interpretable Visual Word Sense…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Shamik Bhattacharya , Daniel Perkins , Yaren Dogan , Vineeth Konjeti , Sudarshan Srinivasan , Edmon Begoli

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation models aim to accurately assign a semantic label to each pixel in an image from a set of arbitrary open-vocabulary texts. In order to learn such pixel-level alignment, current approaches typically rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Zihang Lai

The pre-trained vision-language model, exemplified by CLIP, advances zero-shot semantic segmentation by aligning visual features with class embeddings through a transformer decoder to generate semantic masks. Despite its effectiveness,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Zicheng Zhang , Tong Zhang , Yi Zhu , Jianzhuang Liu , Xiaodan Liang , QiXiang Ye , Wei Ke

Despite the success of large-scale pretrained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) especially CLIP in various open-vocabulary tasks, their application to semantic segmentation remains challenging, producing noisy segmentation maps with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Mengcheng Lan , Chaofeng Chen , Yiping Ke , Xinjiang Wang , Litong Feng , Wayne Zhang

Recent works modify CLIP to perform open-vocabulary semantic segmentation in a training-free manner (TF-OVSS). In vanilla CLIP, patch-wise image representations mainly encode homogeneous image-level properties, which hinders the application…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jingyun Wang , Cilin Yan , Guoliang Kang

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) involves assigning labels to each pixel in an image based on textual descriptions, leveraging world models like CLIP. However, they encounter significant challenges in cross-domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Aniruddh Sikdar , Aditya Gandhamal , Suresh Sundaram