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Text segmentation is a challenging vision task with many downstream applications. Current text segmentation methods require pixel-level annotations, which are expensive in the cost of human labor and limited in application scenarios. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Xinyan Zu , Haiyang Yu , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Technical support problems are often long and complex. They typically contain user descriptions of the problem, the setup, and steps for attempted resolution. Often they also contain various non-natural language text elements like outputs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Kushal Chauhan , Abhirut Gupta

We present FasterSeg, an automatically designed semantic segmentation network with not only state-of-the-art performance but also faster speed than current methods. Utilizing neural architecture search (NAS), FasterSeg is discovered from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Wuyang Chen , Xinyu Gong , Xianming Liu , Qian Zhang , Yuan Li , Zhangyang Wang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown exceptional capabilities in vision-language tasks. However, effectively integrating image segmentation into these models remains a significant challenge. In this work, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Mengcheng Lan , Chaofeng Chen , Jiaxing Xu , Zongrui Li , Yiping Ke , Xudong Jiang , Yingchen Yu , Yunqing Zhao , Song Bai

Dialogue segmentation is a crucial task for dialogue systems allowing a better understanding of conversational texts. Despite recent progress in unsupervised dialogue segmentation methods, their performances are limited by the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Junfeng Jiang , Chengzhang Dong , Sadao Kurohashi , Akiko Aizawa

Text segmentation tasks have a very wide range of application values, such as image editing, style transfer, watermark removal, etc.However, existing public datasets are of poor quality of pixel-level labels that have been shown to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Yibo Wang , Yunhu Ye , Yuanpeng Mao , Yanwei Yu , Yuanping Song

Accurate text segmentation results are crucial for text-related generative tasks, such as text image generation, text editing, text removal, and text style transfer. Recently, some scene text segmentation methods have made significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Xudong Xie , Yuzhe Li , Yang Liu , Zhifei Zhang , Zhaowen Wang , Wei Xiong , Xiang Bai

Remote sensing imagery has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its instrumental role in global environmental monitoring, land usage monitoring, and more. As image databases grow each year, performing automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jielu Zhang , Zhongliang Zhou , Gengchen Mai , Mengxuan Hu , Zihan Guan , Sheng Li , Lan Mu

Semantic segmentation plays a crucial role in enabling machines to understand and interpret visual scenes at a pixel level. While traditional segmentation methods have achieved remarkable success, their generalization to diverse scenes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Philip Hughes , Larry Burns , Luke Adams

Existing topic modeling and text segmentation methodologies generally require large datasets for training, limiting their capabilities when only small collections of text are available. In this work, we reexamine the inter-related problems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Qiong Wu , Adam Hare , Sirui Wang , Yuwei Tu , Zhenming Liu , Christopher G. Brinton , Yanhua Li

This paper introduces a new statistical approach to partitioning text automatically into coherent segments. Our approach enlists both short-range and long-range language models to help it sniff out likely sites of topic changes in text. To…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Doug Beeferman , Adam Berger , John Lafferty

Breaking down a document or a conversation into multiple contiguous segments based on its semantic structure is an important and challenging problem in NLP, which can assist many downstream tasks. However, current works on topic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Reshmi Ghosh , Harjeet Singh Kajal , Sharanya Kamath , Dhuri Shrivastava , Samyadeep Basu , Hansi Zeng , Soundararajan Srinivasan

Language segmentation consists in finding the boundaries where one language ends and another language begins in a text written in more than one language. This is important for all natural language processing tasks. The problem can be solved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-10-07 David Alfter

When searching for information, a human reader first glances over a document, spots relevant sections and then focuses on a few sentences for resolving her intention. However, the high variance of document structure complicates to identify…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Sebastian Arnold , Rudolf Schneider , Philippe Cudré-Mauroux , Felix A. Gers , Alexander Löser

This paper aims to achieve universal segmentation of arbitrary semantic level. Despite significant progress in recent years, specialist segmentation approaches are limited to specific tasks and data distribution. Retraining a new model for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Yong Liu , Cairong Zhang , Yitong Wang , Jiahao Wang , Yujiu Yang , Yansong Tang

Dividing oral histories into topically coherent segments can make them more accessible online. People regularly make judgments about where coherent segments can be extracted from oral histories. But making these judgments can be taxing, so…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Ryan Shaw

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances Large Language Models (LLMs) by incorporating external knowledge, particularly for long-tail domains such as literary works. However, the critical step of document segmentation in RAG remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ruikang Zhang , Zhanni Chen , Yiqiao Cai , Qi Su

Sketch semantic segmentation is a well-explored and pivotal problem in computer vision involving the assignment of pre-defined part labels to individual strokes. This paper presents ContextSeg - a simple yet highly effective approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Jiawei Wang , Changjian Li

Understanding human instructions to identify the target objects is vital for perception systems. In recent years, the advancements of Large Language Models (LLMs) have introduced new possibilities for image segmentation. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Junchi Wang , Lei Ke

Speech translation for subtitling (SubST) is the task of automatically translating speech data into well-formed subtitles by inserting subtitle breaks compliant to specific displaying guidelines. Similar to speech translation (ST), model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Sara Papi , Alina Karakanta , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi