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Open-set image segmentation poses a significant challenge because existing methods often demand extensive training or fine-tuning and generally struggle to segment unified objects consistently across diverse text reference expressions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Zhihua Liu , Amrutha Saseendran , Lei Tong , Xilin He , Fariba Yousefi , Nikolay Burlutskiy , Dino Oglic , Tom Diethe , Philip Teare , Huiyu Zhou , Chen Jin

Vision-language (VL) pre-training has recently gained much attention for its transferability and flexibility in novel concepts (e.g., cross-modality transfer) across various visual tasks. However, VL-driven segmentation has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Sukmin Yun , Seong Hyeon Park , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Jinwoo Shin

Remote sensing image segmentation faces persistent challenges in distinguishing morphologically similar categories and adapting to diverse scene variations. While existing methods rely on implicit representation learning paradigms, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xuechao Zou , Yue Li , Shun Zhang , Kai Li , Shiying Wang , Pin Tao , Junliang Xing , Congyan Lang

Detecting actions in untrimmed videos should not be limited to a small, closed set of classes. We present a simple, yet effective strategy for open-vocabulary temporal action detection utilizing pretrained image-text co-embeddings. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Vivek Rathod , Bryan Seybold , Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan , Austin Myers , Xiuye Gu , Vighnesh Birodkar , David A. Ross

Temporal Action Segmentation (TAS) requires dividing videos into action segments, yet the vast space of activities and alternative breakdowns makes collecting comprehensive datasets infeasible. Existing methods remain limited to closed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Asim Unmesh , Kaki Ramesh , Mayank Patel , Rahul Jain , Karthik Ramani

Large multimodal models such as Stable Diffusion can generate, detect, and classify new visual concepts after fine-tuning just a single word embedding. Do models learn similar words for the same concepts (i.e. <orange-cat> = orange + cat)?…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Brandon Trabucco , Max Gurinas , Kyle Doherty , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

In semantic segmentation, generalizing a visual system to both seen categories and novel categories at inference time has always been practically valuable yet challenging. To enable such functionality, existing methods mainly rely on either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yuhuan Yang , Chaofan Ma , Chen Ju , Fei Zhang , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Zero-shot referring image segmentation aims to locate and segment the target region based on a referring expression, with the primary challenge of aligning and matching semantics across visual and textual modalities without training.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Jiachen Li , Qing Xie , Renshu Gu , Jinyu Xu , Yongjian Liu , Xiaohan Yu

Semantic segmentation requires large amounts of pixel-wise annotations to learn accurate models. In this paper, we present a video prediction-based methodology to scale up training sets by synthesizing new training samples in order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Yi Zhu , Karan Sapra , Fitsum A. Reda , Kevin J. Shih , Shawn Newsam , Andrew Tao , Bryan Catanzaro

Deep neural networks have achieved great successes on the image captioning task. However, most of the existing models depend heavily on paired image-sentence datasets, which are very expensive to acquire. In this paper, we make the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Yang Feng , Lin Ma , Wei Liu , Jiebo Luo

The video composition task aims to integrate specified foregrounds and backgrounds from different videos into a harmonious composite. Current approaches, predominantly trained on videos with adjusted foreground color and lighting, struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Jiaqi Guo , Sitong Su , Junchen Zhu , Lianli Gao , Jingkuan Song

In this paper, we tackle an emerging computer vision task, open-vocabulary universal image segmentation, that aims to perform semantic/instance/panoptic segmentation (background semantic labeling + foreground instance segmentation) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Zheng Ding , Jieke Wang , Zhuowen Tu

The objective of Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) is to localise the sounding objects within visual scenes by accurately predicting pixel-wise segmentation masks. To tackle the task, it involves a comprehensive consideration of both the data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Jinxiang Liu , Yu Wang , Chen Ju , Chaofan Ma , Ya Zhang , Weidi Xie

Text-guided diffusion models have advanced image editing by enabling intuitive control through language. However, despite their strong capabilities, we surprisingly find that SOTA methods struggle with simple, everyday transformations such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Omar Elezabi , Eduard Zamfir , Zongwei Wu , Radu Timofte

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation presents the challenge of labeling each pixel within an image based on a wide range of text descriptions. In this work, we introduce a novel cost-based approach to adapt vision-language foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Seokju Cho , Heeseong Shin , Sunghwan Hong , Anurag Arnab , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Seungryong Kim

Source-Free Domain Adaptation (SFDA) seeks to adapt a source model, which is pre-trained on a supervised source domain, for a target domain, with only access to unlabeled target training data. Relying on pseudo labeling and/or auxiliary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Song Tang , Yunxiang Bai , Wenxin Su , Mao Ye , Jianwei Zhang , Xiatian Zhu

Visual recognition in a low-data regime is challenging and often prone to overfitting. To mitigate this issue, several data augmentation strategies have been proposed. However, standard transformations, e.g., rotation, cropping, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Aniket Roy , Anshul Shah , Ketul Shah , Anirban Roy , Rama Chellappa

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation requires models to effectively integrate visual representations with open-vocabulary semantic labels. While Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) models shine in recognizing visual concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Mengcheng Lan , Chaofeng Chen , Yiping Ke , Xinjiang Wang , Litong Feng , Wayne Zhang

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

Building robust and generic object detection frameworks requires scaling to larger label spaces and bigger training datasets. However, it is prohibitively costly to acquire annotations for thousands of categories at a large scale. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Shiyu Zhao , Zhixing Zhang , Samuel Schulter , Long Zhao , Vijay Kumar B. G , Anastasis Stathopoulos , Manmohan Chandraker , Dimitris Metaxas