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Open-vocabulary Video Instance Segmentation (OpenVIS) can simultaneously detect, segment, and track arbitrary object categories in a video, without being constrained to categories seen during training. In this work, we propose InstFormer, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Pinxue Guo , Tony Huang , Peiyang He , Xuefeng Liu , Tianjun Xiao , Zhaoyu Chen , Wenqiang Zhang

Recently, the strong generalization ability of CLIP has facilitated open-vocabulary semantic segmentation, which labels pixels using arbitrary text. However, existing methods that fine-tune CLIP for segmentation on limited seen categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Muyao Yuan , Yuanhong Zhang , Weizhan Zhang , Lan Ma , Yuan Gao , Jiangyong Ying , Yudeng Xin

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) is an open-world task that aims to assign each pixel within an image to a specific class defined by arbitrary text descriptions. While large-scale vision-language models have shown remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Lin Chen , Qi Yang , Kun Ding , Zhihao Li , Gang Shen , Fei Li , Qiyuan Cao , Shiming Xiang

Online construction of open-ended language scenes is crucial for robotic applications, where open-vocabulary interactive scene understanding is required. Recently, neural implicit representation has provided a promising direction for online…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Muer Tie , Julong Wei , Zhengjun Wang , Ke Wu , Shansuai Yuan , Kaizhao Zhang , Jie Jia , Jieru Zhao , Zhongxue Gan , Wenchao Ding

This paper presents a new method for the zero-shot open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) of 3D automotive lidar data. To circumvent the recognized image-text modality gap that is intrinsic to approaches based on Vision Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Nermin Samet , Gilles Puy , Renaud Marlet

In the field of visual scene understanding, deep neural networks have made impressive advancements in various core tasks like segmentation, tracking, and detection. However, most approaches operate on the close-set assumption, meaning that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Jianzong Wu , Xiangtai Li , Shilin Xu , Haobo Yuan , Henghui Ding , Yibo Yang , Xia Li , Jiangning Zhang , Yunhai Tong , Xudong Jiang , Bernard Ghanem , Dacheng Tao

We propose to explore a new problem called audio-visual segmentation (AVS), in which the goal is to output a pixel-level map of the object(s) that produce sound at the time of the image frame. To facilitate this research, we construct the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Jinxing Zhou , Jianyuan Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Weixuan Sun , Jing Zhang , Stan Birchfield , Dan Guo , Lingpeng Kong , Meng Wang , Yiran Zhong

Text-to-image diffusion techniques have shown exceptional capabilities in producing high-quality, dense visual predictions from open-vocabulary text. This indicates a strong correlation between visual and textual domains in open concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Tuan-Anh Vu , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Qing Guo , Nhat Chung , Binh-Son Hua , Ivor W. Tsang , Sai-Kit Yeung

In this paper, we propose ReSeg-CLIP, a new training-free Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation method for remote sensing data. To compensate for the problems of vision language models, such as CLIP in semantic segmentation caused by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Mohammadreza Heidarianbaei , Mareike Dorozynski , Hubert Kanyamahanga , Max Mehltretter , Franz Rottensteiner

Current state-of-the-art open-vocabulary segmentation methods typically rely on image-mask-text triplet annotations for supervision. However, acquiring such detailed annotations is labour-intensive and poses scalability challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Zhaoqing Wang , Xiaobo Xia , Ziye Chen , Xiao He , Yandong Guo , Mingming Gong , Tongliang Liu

Domain Generalization in Semantic Segmentation (DG-SS) aims to enable segmentation models to perform robustly in unseen environments. However, conventional DG-SS methods are restricted to a fixed set of known categories, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Dong Zhao , Qi Zang , Nan Pu , Wenjing Li , Nicu Sebe , Zhun Zhong

To manipulate objects in novel, unstructured environments, robots need task-oriented grasps that target object parts based on the given task. Geometry-based methods often struggle with visually defined parts, occlusions, and unseen objects.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Edmond Tong , Advaith Balaji , Anthony Opipari , Stanley Lewis , Zhen Zeng , Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

Given an object mask, Semi-supervised Video Object Segmentation (SVOS) technique aims to track and segment the object across video frames, serving as a fundamental task in computer vision. Although recent memory-based methods demonstrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Guanyi Qin , Ziyue Wang , Daiyun Shen , Haofeng Liu , Hantao Zhou , Junde Wu , Runze Hu , Yueming Jin

Open-world 3D part segmentation is pivotal in diverse applications such as robotics and AR/VR. Traditional supervised methods often grapple with limited 3D data availability and struggle to generalize to unseen object categories. PartSLIP,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Yuchen Zhou , Jiayuan Gu , Xuanlin Li , Minghua Liu , Yunhao Fang , Hao Su

Modern applications increasingly demand flexible computer vision models that adapt to novel concepts not encountered during training. This necessity is pivotal in emerging domains like extended reality, robotics, and autonomous driving,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Lorenzo Bianchi , Fabio Carrara , Nicola Messina , Fabrizio Falchi

Image segmentation is the task of associating pixels in an image with their respective object class labels. It has a wide range of applications in many industries including healthcare, transportation, robotics, fashion, home improvement,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Yuanbo Wang , Unaiza Ahsan , Hanyan Li , Matthew Hagen

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

Addressing Lidar Panoptic Segmentation (LPS ) is crucial for safe deployment of autonomous vehicles. LPS aims to recognize and segment lidar points w.r.t. a pre-defined vocabulary of semantic classes, including thing classes of countable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Anirudh S Chakravarthy , Meghana Reddy Ganesina , Peiyun Hu , Laura Leal-Taixe , Shu Kong , Deva Ramanan , Aljosa Osep

We present Seg-TTO, a novel framework for zero-shot, open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS), designed to excel in specialized domain tasks. While current open-vocabulary approaches show impressive performance on standard segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ulindu De Silva , Didula Samaraweera , Sasini Wanigathunga , Kavindu Kariyawasam , Kanchana Ranasinghe , Muzammal Naseer , Ranga Rodrigo

We propose a training-free method for open-vocabulary semantic segmentation using Vision-and-Language Models (VLMs). Our approach enhances the initial per-patch predictions of VLMs through label propagation, which jointly optimizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Vladan Stojnić , Yannis Kalantidis , Jiří Matas , Giorgos Tolias