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Open-Vocabulary Camouflaged Object Segmentation (OVCOS) seeks to segment and classify camouflaged objects from arbitrary categories, presenting unique challenges due to visual ambiguity and unseen categories.Recent approaches typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kai Zhao , Wubang Yuan , Zheng Wang , Guanyi Li , Xiaoqiang Zhu , Deng-ping Fan , Dan Zeng

Open-vocabulary part segmentation (OVPS) is an emerging research area focused on segmenting fine-grained entities using diverse and previously unseen vocabularies. Our study highlights the inherent complexities of part segmentation due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Jiho Choi , Seonho Lee , Seungho Lee , Minhyun Lee , Hyunjung Shim

Large vision-language models revolutionized image classification and semantic segmentation paradigms. However, they typically assume a pre-defined set of categories, or vocabulary, at test time for composing textual prompts. This assumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Alessandro Conti , Enrico Fini , Massimiliano Mancini , Paolo Rota , Yiming Wang , Elisa Ricci

3D scene understanding is fundamental for embodied AI and robotics, supporting reliable perception for interaction and navigation. Recent approaches achieve zero-shot, open-vocabulary 3D semantic mapping by assigning embedding vectors to 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mohamad Amin Mirzaei , Pantea Amoie , Ali Ekhterachian , Matin Mirzababaei , Babak Khalaj

Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) methods are capable of performing semantic segmentation without relying on a fixed vocabulary, and in some cases, without training or fine-tuning. However, OVS methods typically require a human in the loop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Osman Ülger , Maksymilian Kulicki , Yuki Asano , Martin R. Oswald

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

Image segmentation is a long-standing challenge in computer vision, studied continuously over several decades, as evidenced by seminal algorithms such as N-Cut, FCN, and MaskFormer. With the advent of foundation models (FMs), contemporary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Tianfei Zhou , Wang Xia , Fei Zhang , Boyu Chang , Wenguan Wang , Ye Yuan , Ender Konukoglu , Daniel Cremers

The CLIP and Segment Anything Model (SAM) are remarkable vision foundation models (VFMs). SAM excels in segmentation tasks across diverse domains, whereas CLIP is renowned for its zero-shot recognition capabilities. This paper presents an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Haobo Yuan , Xiangtai Li , Chong Zhou , Yining Li , Kai Chen , Chen Change Loy

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation enables models to segment objects or image regions beyond fixed class sets, offering flexibility in dynamic environments. However, existing methods often rely on single-view images and struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Thomas Campagnolo , Ezio Malis , Philippe Martinet , Gaétan Bahl

When trained at a sufficient scale, self-supervised learning has exhibited a notable ability to solve a wide range of visual or language understanding tasks. In this paper, we investigate simple, yet effective approaches for adapting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Chaofan Ma , Yuhuan Yang , Yanfeng Wang , Ya Zhang , Weidi Xie

Automated segmentation of ultrasound images can assist medical experts with diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Although using the common modality of ultrasound, one typically needs separate datasets in order to segment, for example,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Dongik Shin , Beomsuk Kim , Seungjun Baek

Vision-language models (VLMs) excel in visual understanding but often lack reliable grounding capabilities and actionable inference rates. Integrating them with open-vocabulary object detection (OVD), instance segmentation, and tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Bastian Pätzold , Jan Nogga , Sven Behnke

Foundation models have exhibited unprecedented capabilities in tackling many domains and tasks. Models such as CLIP are currently widely used to bridge cross-modal representations, and text-to-image diffusion models are arguably the leading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Barbara Toniella Corradini , Mustafa Shukor , Paul Couairon , Guillaume Couairon , Franco Scarselli , Matthieu Cord

Audio-visual segmentation aims to separate sounding objects from videos by predicting pixel-level masks based on audio signals. Existing methods primarily concentrate on closed-set scenarios and direct audio-visual alignment and fusion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shengkai Chen , Yifang Yin , Jinming Cao , Shili Xiang , Zhenguang Liu , Roger Zimmermann

Unsupervised semantic segmentation (USS) aims to achieve high-quality segmentation without manual pixel-level annotations. Existing USS models provide coarse category classification for regions, but the results often have blurry and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Tingting Li , Gensheng Pei , Xinhao Cai , Huafeng Liu , Qiong Wang , Yazhou Yao

Despite significant advances in deep learning for image and video segmentation, existing models continue to face challenges in cross-domain adaptability and generalization. Image and video segmentation are fundamental tasks in computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zhang Jiaxing , Tang Hao

We propose an approach to semantic segmentation that achieves state-of-the-art supervised performance when applied in a zero-shot setting. It thus achieves results equivalent to those of the supervised methods, on each of the major semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Wei Yin , Yifan Liu , Chunhua Shen , Baichuan Sun , Anton van den Hengel

Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) aims at segmenting and categorizing objects in videos from a closed set of training categories, lacking the generalization ability to handle novel categories in real-world videos. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Haochen Wang , Cilin Yan , Shuai Wang , Xiaolong Jiang , XU Tang , Yao Hu , Weidi Xie , Efstratios Gavves

Open-vocabulary panoptic segmentation remains a challenging problem. One of the biggest difficulties lies in training models to generalize to an unlimited number of classes using limited categorized training data. Recent popular methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yi-Chia Chen , Wei-Hua Li , Chu-Song Chen

The pre-trained text-image discriminative models, such as CLIP, has been explored for open-vocabulary semantic segmentation with unsatisfactory results due to the loss of crucial localization information and awareness of object shapes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Jinglong Wang , Xiawei Li , Jing Zhang , Qingyuan Xu , Qin Zhou , Qian Yu , Lu Sheng , Dong Xu