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Open-vocabulary instance segmentation aims at segmenting novel classes without mask annotations. It is an important step toward reducing laborious human supervision. Most existing works first pretrain a model on captioned images covering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Dat Huynh , Jason Kuen , Zhe Lin , Jiuxiang Gu , Ehsan Elhamifar

3D semantic scene understanding tasks have achieved great success with the emergence of deep learning, but often require a huge amount of manually annotated training data. To alleviate the annotation cost, we propose the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Shichao Dong , Guosheng Lin

Although perception systems have made remarkable advancements in recent years, particularly in 2D reasoning segmentation, these systems still rely on explicit human instruction or pre-defined categories to identify target objects before…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Kunshen Zhang

The goal of open-vocabulary detection is to identify novel objects based on arbitrary textual descriptions. In this paper, we address open-vocabulary 3D point-cloud detection by a dividing-and-conquering strategy, which involves: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Yuheng Lu , Chenfeng Xu , Xiaobao Wei , Xiaodong Xie , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Kurt Keutzer , Shanghang Zhang

3D referring segmentation is an emerging and challenging vision-language task that aims to segment the object described by a natural language expression in a point cloud scene. The key challenge behind this task is vision-language feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Shuting He , Henghui Ding

Autonomous vision applications in production, intralogistics, or manufacturing environments require perception capabilities beyond a small, fixed set of classes. Recent open-vocabulary methods, leveraging 2D Vision-Language Foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Keno Moenck , Adrian Philip Florea , Julian Koch , Thorsten Schüppstuhl

Advancements in 3D instance segmentation have traditionally been tethered to the availability of annotated datasets, limiting their application to a narrow spectrum of object categories. Recent efforts have sought to harness vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yingda Yin , Yuzheng Liu , Yang Xiao , Daniel Cohen-Or , Jingwei Huang , Baoquan Chen

Incremental open-vocabulary 3D instance-semantic mapping is essential for autonomous agents operating in complex everyday environments. However, it remains challenging due to the need for robust instance segmentation, real-time processing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Zilong Deng , Federico Tombari , Marc Pollefeys , Johanna Wald , Daniel Barath

Open-vocabulary 3D segmentation is a fundamental yet challenging task, requiring a mutual understanding of both segmentation and language. However, existing Gaussian-splatting-based methods rely either on a single 3D language field, leading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Runsong Zhu , Ka-Hei Hui , Zhengzhe Liu , Qianyi Wu , Weiliang Tang , Shi Qiu , Pheng-Ann Heng , Chi-Wing Fu

Recognizing 3D part instances from a 3D point cloud is crucial for 3D structure and scene understanding. Several learning-based approaches use semantic segmentation and instance center prediction as training tasks and fail to further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Chunyu Sun , Xin Tong , Yang Liu

In this paper, we present a novel, scalable approach for constructing open set, instance-level 3D scene representations, advancing open world understanding of 3D environments. Existing methods require pre-constructed 3D scenes and face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Rafay Mohiuddin , Sai Manoj Prakhya , Fiona Collins , Ziyuan Liu , André Borrmann

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation enables models to recognize and segment objects from arbitrary natural language descriptions, offering the flexibility to handle novel, fine-grained, or functionally defined categories beyond fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Chongyu Wang , Kunlei Jing , Jihua Zhu , Di Wang

In this work, we introduce OpenIns3D, a new 3D-input-only framework for 3D open-vocabulary scene understanding. The OpenIns3D framework employs a "Mask-Snap-Lookup" scheme. The "Mask" module learns class-agnostic mask proposals in 3D point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Zhening Huang , Xiaoyang Wu , Xi Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Lei Zhu , Joan Lasenby

Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) methods offer promising capabilities in detecting unseen object categories, but the category must be known and needs to be provided by a human, either via a text prompt or pre-labeled datasets, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Weijie Wei , Osman Ülger , Fatemeh Karimi Nejadasl , Theo Gevers , Martin R. Oswald

Generalizing open-vocabulary 3D instance segmentation (OV-3DIS) to diverse, unstructured, and mesh-free environments is crucial for robotics and AR/VR, yet remains a significant challenge. We attribute this to two key limitations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zhishan Zhou , Siyuan Wei , Zengran Wang , Chunjie Wang , Xiaosheng Yan , Xiao Liu

In this paper, we investigate the use of diffusion models which are pre-trained on large-scale image-caption pairs for open-vocabulary 3D semantic understanding. We propose a novel method, namely Diff2Scene, which leverages frozen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Xiaoyu Zhu , Hao Zhou , Pengfei Xing , Long Zhao , Hao Xu , Junwei Liang , Alexander Hauptmann , Ting Liu , Andrew Gallagher

Panoptic reconstruction is a challenging task in 3D scene understanding. However, most existing methods heavily rely on pre-trained semantic segmentation models and known 3D object bounding boxes for 3D panoptic segmentation, which is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Xuan Yu , Yili Liu , Chenrui Han , Sitong Mao , Shunbo Zhou , Rong Xiong , Yiyi Liao , Yue Wang

Most existing methods realize 3D instance segmentation by extending those models used for 3D object detection or 3D semantic segmentation. However, these non-straightforward methods suffer from two drawbacks: 1) Imprecise bounding boxes or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Jiahao Sun , Chunmei Qing , Junpeng Tan , Xiangmin Xu

Accurate 3D instance segmentation is crucial for high-quality scene understanding in the 3D vision domain. However, 3D instance segmentation based on 2D-to-3D lifting approaches struggle to produce precise instance-level segmentation, due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Chaolei Wang , Yang Luo , Jing Du , Siyu Chen , Yiping Chen , Ting Han

Open-vocabulary segmentation of 3D scenes is a fundamental function of human perception and thus a crucial objective in computer vision research. However, this task is heavily impeded by the lack of large-scale and diverse 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Kunhao Liu , Fangneng Zhan , Jiahui Zhang , Muyu Xu , Yingchen Yu , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik , Christian Theobalt , Eric Xing , Shijian Lu