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Most existing methods for training-free open-vocabulary semantic segmentation are based on CLIP. While these approaches have made progress, they often face challenges in precise localization or require complex pipelines to combine separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Kaiyu Li , Shengqi Zhang , Yujie Wang , Yupeng Deng , Zhi Wang , Deyu Meng , Xiangyong Cao

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation strives to distinguish pixels into different semantic groups from an open set of categories. Most existing methods explore utilizing pre-trained vision-language models, in which the key is to adopt the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Bin Xie , Jiale Cao , Jin Xie , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Yanwei Pang

Open-vocabulary segmentation enables pixel-level recognition from an open set of textual categories, allowing generalization beyond fixed classes. Despite great potential in remote sensing, progress in this area remains largely limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yimin Wei , Aoran Xiao , Hongruixuan Chen , Junshi Xia , Naoto Yokoya

We present lazy visual grounding, a two-stage approach of unsupervised object mask discovery followed by object grounding, for open-vocabulary semantic segmentation. Plenty of the previous art casts this task as pixel-to-text classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Dahyun Kang , Minsu Cho

In autonomous driving and robotics, ensuring road safety and reliable decision-making critically depends on out-of-distribution (OOD) segmentation. While numerous methods have been proposed to detect anomalous objects on the road,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Seungheon Song , Jaekoo Lee

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) aims to scale up vocabulary size to detect objects of novel categories beyond the training vocabulary. Recent work resorts to the rich knowledge in pre-trained vision-language models. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Peixian Chen , Kekai Sheng , Mengdan Zhang , Mingbao Lin , Yunhang Shen , Shaohui Lin , Bo Ren , Ke Li

Open-world and anomaly segmentation methods seek to enable autonomous driving systems to detect and segment both known and unknown objects in real-world scenes. However, existing methods do not assign semantically meaningful labels to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Klara Reichard , Nikolas Brasch , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment an object of interest throughout a video based on a language description. The prominent challenge lies in aligning static text with dynamic visual content, particularly when objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Bingrui Zhao , Lin Yuanbo Wu , Xiangtian Fan , Deyin Liu , Lu Zhang , Ruyi He , Jialie Shen , Ximing Li

Referring Audio-Visual Segmentation (Ref-AVS) aims to segment specific objects in videos based on natural language expressions involving audio, vision, and text information. This task poses significant challenges in cross-modal reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Dian Jin , Yanghao Zhou , Jinxing Zhou , Jiaqi Ma , Ruohao Guo , Dan Guo

Existing video instance segmentation (VIS) approaches generally follow a closed-world assumption, where only seen category instances are identified and spatio-temporally segmented at inference. Open-world formulation relaxes the close-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Omkar Thawakar , Sanath Narayan , Hisham Cholakkal , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Salman Khan , Jorma Laaksonen , Mubarak Shah , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Existing Video Object Segmentation (VOS) relies on explicit user instructions, such as categories, masks, or short phrases, restricting their ability to perform complex video segmentation requiring reasoning with world knowledge. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Cilin Yan , Haochen Wang , Shilin Yan , Xiaolong Jiang , Yao Hu , Guoliang Kang , Weidi Xie , Efstratios Gavves

Amodal perception requires inferring the full shape of an object that is partially occluded. This task is particularly challenging on two levels: (1) it requires more information than what is contained in the instant retina or imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Jian Yao , Yuxin Hong , Chiyu Wang , Tianjun Xiao , Tong He , Francesco Locatello , David Wipf , Yanwei Fu , Zheng Zhang

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) has recently gained significant attention as a crucial step toward achieving human-like visual intelligence. Existing OVOD methods extend target vocabulary from pre-defined categories to open-world by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Sunghun Kang , Junbum Cha , Jonghwan Mun , Byungseok Roh , Chang D. Yoo

Bird's-eye-view (BEV) semantic segmentation is becoming crucial in autonomous driving systems. It realizes ego-vehicle surrounding environment perception by projecting 2D multi-view images into 3D world space. Recently, BEV segmentation has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Jian Sun , Yuqi Dai , Chi-Man Vong , Qing Xu , Shengbo Eben Li , Jianqiang Wang , Lei He , Keqiang Li

Visual bird's eye view (BEV) semantic segmentation helps autonomous vehicles understand the surrounding environment only from images, including static elements (e.g., roads) and dynamic elements (e.g., vehicles, pedestrians). However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Junyu Zhu , Lina Liu , Yu Tang , Feng Wen , Wanlong Li , Yong Liu

Progress on object detection is enabled by datasets that focus the research community's attention on open challenges. This process led us from simple images to complex scenes and from bounding boxes to segmentation masks. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Agrim Gupta , Piotr Dollár , Ross Girshick

Semantic segmentation of 3D point cloud scenes is a crucial task for various applications. In real-world scenarios, training segmentation models often faces three concurrent forms of data insufficiency: scarcity of training scenes, scarcity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Takahiko Furuya

In this paper, we show that recent advances in self-supervised feature learning enable unsupervised object discovery and semantic segmentation with a performance that matches the state of the field on supervised semantic segmentation 10…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Andrii Zadaianchuk , Matthaeus Kleindessner , Yi Zhu , Francesco Locatello , Thomas Brox

Diffusion models represent a new paradigm in text-to-image generation. Beyond generating high-quality images from text prompts, models such as Stable Diffusion have been successfully extended to the joint generation of semantic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Pablo Marcos-Manchón , Roberto Alcover-Couso , Juan C. SanMiguel , Jose M. Martínez

Scene text recognition is an important and challenging task in computer vision. However, most prior works focus on recognizing pre-defined words, while there are various out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words in real-world applications. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Xuhua Ren , Hengcan Shi , Jin Li