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Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims to segment images into distinct semantic regions for both seen and unseen categories at the pixel level. Current methods utilize text embeddings from pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Ziyu Zhao , Xiaoguang Li , Linjia Shi , Nasrin Imanpour , Song Wang

Box-supervised instance segmentation has recently attracted lots of research efforts while little attention is received in aerial image domain. In contrast to the general object collections, aerial objects have large intra-class variances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Wentong Li , Yijie Chen , Wenyu Liu , Jianke Zhu

The ability to segment objects based on open-ended language prompts remains a critical challenge, requiring models to ground textual semantics into precise spatial masks while handling diverse and unseen categories. We present OpenWorldSAM,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Shiting Xiao , Rishabh Kabra , Yuhang Li , Donghyun Lee , Joao Carreira , Priyadarshini Panda

Instance segmentation on point clouds is crucially important for 3D scene understanding. Most SOTAs adopt distance clustering, which is typically effective but does not perform well in segmenting adjacent objects with the same semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Weiguang Zhao , Yuyao Yan , Chaolong Yang , Jianan Ye , Xi Yang , Kaizhu Huang

This paper introduces a novel approach to learning instance segmentation using extreme points, i.e., the topmost, leftmost, bottommost, and rightmost points, of each object. These points are readily available in the modern bounding box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Hyeonjun Lee , Sehyun Hwang , Suha Kwak

This paper addresses category-agnostic instance segmentation for robotic manipulation, focusing on segmenting objects independent of their class to enable versatile applications like bin-picking in dynamic environments. Existing methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Prem Raj , Sachin Bhadang , Gaurav Chaudhary , Laxmidhar Behera , Tushar Sandhan

Most existing methods handle cell instance segmentation problems directly without relying on additional detection boxes. These methods generally fails to separate touching cells due to the lack of global understanding of the objects. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Jingru Yi , Pengxiang Wu , Qiaoying Huang , Hui Qu , Bo Liu , Daniel J. Hoeppner , Dimitris N. Metaxas

We present a new, embarrassingly simple approach to instance segmentation in images. Compared to many other dense prediction tasks, e.g., semantic segmentation, it is the arbitrary number of instances that have made instance segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Xinlong Wang , Tao Kong , Chunhua Shen , Yuning Jiang , Lei Li

Accurate delineation of individual cells in microscopy videos is essential for studying cellular dynamics, yet separating touching or overlapping instances remains a persistent challenge. Although foundation-model for segmentation such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Thomas Mendelson , Joshua Francois , Galit Lahav , Tammy Riklin-Raviv

Moving object segmentation is a crucial task for autonomous vehicles as it can be used to segment objects in a class agnostic manner based on their motion cues. It enables the detection of unseen objects during training (e.g., moose or a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Eslam Mohamed , Mahmoud Ewaisha , Mennatullah Siam , Hazem Rashed , Senthil Yogamani , Waleed Hamdy , Muhammad Helmi , Ahmad El-Sallab

Online, real-time, and fine-grained 3D segmentation constitutes a fundamental capability for embodied intelligent agents to perceive and comprehend their operational environments. Recent advancements employ predefined object queries to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Hanshi Wang , Zijian Cai , Jin Gao , Yiwei Zhang , Weiming Hu , Ke Wang , Zhipeng Zhang

Segmentation localizes objects in an image on a fine-grained per-pixel scale. Segmentation benefits by humans-in-the-loop to provide additional input of objects to segment using a combination of foreground or background clicks. Tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Nikolai Warner , Meera Hahn , Jonathan Huang , Irfan Essa , Vighnesh Birodkar

Almost all existing amodal segmentation methods make the inferences of occluded regions by using features corresponding to the whole image. This is against the human's amodal perception, where human uses the visible part and the shape prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Yuting Xiao , Yanyu Xu , Ziming Zhong , Weixin Luo , Jiawei Li , Shenghua Gao

Object detection using an oriented bounding box (OBB) can better target rotated objects by reducing the overlap with background areas. Existing OBB approaches are mostly built on horizontal bounding box detectors by introducing an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Zhiming Chen , Kean Chen , Weiyao Lin , John See , Hui Yu , Yan Ke , Cong Yang

Instance segmentation of surgical instruments is a long-standing research problem, crucial for the development of many applications for computer-assisted surgery. This problem is commonly tackled via fully-supervised training of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Luca Sestini , Benoit Rosa , Elena De Momi , Giancarlo Ferrigno , Nicolas Padoy

Multi-instance video object segmentation is to segment specific instances throughout a video sequence in pixel level, given only an annotated first frame. In this paper, we implement an effective fully convolutional networks with U-Net…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Heguang Liu , Jingle Jiang

Despite significant advancements, segmentation based on deep neural networks in medical and surgical imaging faces several challenges, two of which we aim to address in this work. First, acquiring complete pixel-level segmentation labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Junwen Wang , Zhonghao Wang , Oscar MacCormac , Jonathan Shapey , Tom Vercauteren

One of the fundamental challenges in microscopy (MS) image analysis is instance segmentation (IS), particularly when segmenting cluster regions where multiple objects of varying sizes and shapes may be connected or even overlapped in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Jun Wang , Chengfeng Zhou , Zhaoyan Ming , Lina Wei , Xudong Jiang , Dahong Qian

Instance detection (InsDet) aims to localize specific object instances within a novel scene imagery based on given visual references. Technically, it requires proposal detection to identify all possible object instances, followed by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Qianqian Shen , Yunhan Zhao , Nahyun Kwon , Jeeeun Kim , Yanan Li , Shu Kong

General purpose segmentation models are able to generate (semantic) segmentation masks from a variety of prompts, including visual (points, boxed, etc.) and textual (object names) ones. In particular, input images are pre-processed by an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Francesco Croce , Matthias Hein