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Humans have a natural ability to perform semantic associations with the surrounding objects in the environment. This allows them to create a mental map of the environment, allowing them to navigate on-demand when given linguistic…

One key challenge in augmented reality is the placement of virtual content in natural locations. Existing automated techniques are only able to work with a closed-vocabulary, fixed set of objects. In this paper, we introduce a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Luke Yoffe , Aditya Sharma , Tobias Höllerer

Most existing remote sensing instance segmentation approaches are designed for close-vocabulary prediction, limiting their ability to recognize novel categories or generalize across datasets. This restricts their applicability in diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Shiqi Huang , Shuting He , Huaiyuan Qin , Bihan Wen

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

Recent open-vocabulary robot mapping methods enrich dense geometric maps with pre-trained visual-language features, achieving a high level of detail and guiding robots to find objects specified by open-vocabulary language queries. While the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Fujing Xie , Sören Schwertfeger , Hermann Blum

Many applications of Visual SLAM, such as augmented reality, virtual reality, robotics or autonomous driving, require versatile, robust and precise solutions, most often with real-time capability. In this work, we describe OV$^{2}$SLAM, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Maxime Ferrera , Alexandre Eudes , Julien Moras , Martial Sanfourche , Guy Le Besnerais

Understanding and mapping a new environment are core abilities of any autonomously navigating agent. While classical robotics usually estimates maps in a stand-alone manner with SLAM variants, which maintain a topological or metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Pierre Marza , Laetitia Matignon , Olivier Simonin , Christian Wolf

Due to its extensive applications, aerial image object detection has long been a hot topic in computer vision. In recent years, advancements in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) technology have further propelled this field to new heights,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yang Zhou , Junjie Li , CongYang Ou , Dawei Yan , Haokui Zhang , Xizhe Xue

In this paper, we propose a training scheme called OVSeg3R to learn open-vocabulary 3D instance segmentation from well-studied 2D perception models with the aid of 3D reconstruction. OVSeg3R directly adopts reconstructed scenes from 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Hongyang Li , Jinyuan Qu , Lei Zhang

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

Reconstruction of 3D open surfaces (e.g., non-watertight meshes) is an underexplored area of computer vision. Recent learning-based implicit techniques have removed previous barriers by enabling reconstruction in arbitrary resolutions. Yet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Mohammad Samiul Arshad , William J. Beksi

Recently, the emergence of the large-scale vision-language model (VLM), such as CLIP, has opened the way towards open-world object perception. Many works have explored the utilization of pre-trained VLM for the challenging open-vocabulary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Youwei Pang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Jiaming Zuo , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

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

Mobile robots operating indoors must be prepared to navigate challenging scenes that contain transparent surfaces. This paper proposes a novel method for the fusion of acoustic and visual sensing modalities through implicit neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Advaith V. Sethuraman , Onur Bagoren , Harikrishnan Seetharaman , Dalton Richardson , Joseph Taylor , Katherine A. Skinner

Object goal navigation aims to navigate an agent to locations of a given object category in unseen environments. Classical methods explicitly build maps of environments and require extensive engineering while lacking semantic information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Shizhe Chen , Thomas Chabal , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Traditional 3D scene understanding approaches rely on labeled 3D datasets to train a model for a single task with supervision. We propose OpenScene, an alternative approach where a model predicts dense features for 3D scene points that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Songyou Peng , Kyle Genova , Chiyu "Max" Jiang , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Marc Pollefeys , Thomas Funkhouser

Open-vocabulary segmentation is the task of segmenting anything that can be named in an image. Recently, large-scale vision-language modelling has led to significant advances in open-vocabulary segmentation, but at the cost of gargantuan…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Laurynas Karazija , Iro Laina , Andrea Vedaldi , Christian Rupprecht

Visual context provides grounding information for multimodal machine translation (MMT). However, previous MMT models and probing studies on visual features suggest that visual information is less explored in MMT as it is often redundant to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Dexin Wang , Deyi Xiong

Event cameras, known for low-latency operation and superior performance in challenging lighting conditions, are suitable for sensitive computer vision tasks such as semantic segmentation in autonomous driving. However, challenges arise due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Muhammad Rameez Ur Rahman , Jhony H. Giraldo , Indro Spinelli , Stéphane Lathuilière , Fabio Galasso

Humans excel at forming mental maps of their surroundings, equipping them to understand object relationships and navigate based on language queries. Our previous work, SI Maps (Nanwani L, Agarwal A, Jain K, et al. Instance-level semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Laksh Nanwani , Kumaraditya Gupta , Aditya Mathur , Swayam Agrawal , A. H. Abdul Hafez , K. Madhava Krishna