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Semantic segmentation is an important topic in computer vision with many relevant application in Earth observation. While supervised methods exist, the constraints of limited annotated data has encouraged development of unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Pratik Vora , Sudipan Saha

Existing state-of-the-art methods for Video Object Segmentation (VOS) learn low-level pixel-to-pixel correspondences between frames to propagate object masks across video. This requires a large amount of densely annotated video data, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Ali Athar , Jonathon Luiten , Alexander Hermans , Deva Ramanan , Bastian Leibe

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

Accurate perception of the surrounding scene is helpful for robots to make reasonable judgments and behaviours. Therefore, developing effective scene representation and recognition methods are of significant importance in robotics.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Bo Miao , Liguang Zhou , Ajmal Mian , Tin Lun Lam , Yangsheng Xu

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing (RS) images is pivotal for comprehensive Earth observation, but the demand for interpreting new object categories, coupled with the high expense of manual annotation, poses significant challenges.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Kaiyu Li , Xiangyong Cao , Ruixun Liu , Shihong Wang , Zixuan Jiang , Zhi Wang , Deyu Meng

Reliable object perception is necessary for general-purpose service robots. Open-vocabulary detectors struggle to generalize beyond a few classes and fully supervised training of object detectors requires time-intensive annotations. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Vitalii Tutevych , Raphael Memmesheimer , Luca Eichler , Dmytro Pavlichenko , Fynn Schilke , Rodja Krudewig , Sven Behnke

Open-Vocab 3D Instance Segmentation methods (OV-3DIS) have recently demonstrated their ability to generalize to unseen objects. However, these methods still depend on predefined class names during testing, restricting the autonomy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Phuc D. A. Nguyen , Minh Luu , Anh Tran , Cuong Pham , Khoi Nguyen

Occupancy prediction tasks focus on the inference of both geometry and semantic labels for each voxel, which is an important perception mission. However, it is still a semantic segmentation task without distinguishing various instances.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Zichao Dong , Hang Ji , Weikun Zhang , Xufeng Huang , Junbo Chen

Temporal action segmentation is typically achieved by discovering the dramatic variances in global visual descriptors. In this paper, we explore the merits of local features by proposing the unsupervised framework of Object-centric Temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Yuerong Li , Zhengrong Xue , Huazhe Xu

Neural volumetric representations have shown the potential that Multi-layer Perceptrons (MLPs) can be optimized with multi-view calibrated images to represent scene geometry and appearance, without explicit 3D supervision. Object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Zhiwen Fan , Peihao Wang , Yifan Jiang , Xinyu Gong , Dejia Xu , Zhangyang Wang

Accurate object segmentation is a crucial task in the context of robotic manipulation. However, creating sufficient annotated training data for neural networks is particularly time consuming and often requires manual labeling. To this end,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Wout Boerdijk , Martin Sundermeyer , Maximilian Durner , Rudolph Triebel

As a computer vision task, automatic object segmentation remains challenging in specialized image domains without massive labeled data, such as synthetic aperture sonar images, remote sensing, biomedical imaging, etc. In any domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Hassan Baker , Matthew S. Emigh , Austin J. Brockmeier

Specular reflections pose a significant challenge for object segmentation, as their sharp intensity transitions often mislead both conventional algorithms and deep learning based methods. However, as the specular reflection must lie on the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Katja Kossira , Yunxuan Zhu , Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup

Unsupervised video object segmentation aims to automatically segment moving objects over an unconstrained video without any user annotation. So far, only few unsupervised online methods have been reported in literature and their performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Tao Zhuo , Zhiyong Cheng , Peng Zhang , Yongkang Wong , Mohan Kankanhalli

We propose a novel self-supervised Video Object Segmentation (VOS) approach that strives to achieve better object-background discriminability for accurate object segmentation. Distinct from previous self-supervised VOS methods, our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Jyoti Kini , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Salman Khan , Mubarak Shah

Classical object detectors are incapable of detecting novel class objects that are not encountered before. Regarding this issue, Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVOD) is proposed, which aims to detect the objects in the candidate class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Zhao Wang , Aoxue Li , Fengwei Zhou , Zhenguo Li , Qi Dou

This paper delves into the challenges of achieving scalable and effective multi-object modeling for semi-supervised Video Object Segmentation (VOS). Previous VOS methods decode features with a single positive object, limiting the learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Zongxin Yang , Jiaxu Miao , Yunchao Wei , Wenguan Wang , Xiaohan Wang , Yi Yang

To be effective in unstructured and changing environments, robots must learn to recognize new objects. Deep learning has enabled rapid progress for object detection and segmentation in computer vision; however, this progress comes at the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Victoria Florence , Jason J. Corso , Brent Griffin

Referring image segmentation (RIS) aims to segment objects in an image conditioning on free-from text descriptions. Despite the overwhelming progress, it still remains challenging for current approaches to perform well on cases with various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Yajie Liu , Pu Ge , Haoxiang Ma , Shichao Fan , Qingjie Liu , Di Huang , Yunhong Wang

Video object segmentation (VOS) is a critical task in the development of video perception and understanding. The Segment-Anything Model 2 (SAM 2), released by Meta AI, is the current state-of-the-art architecture for end-to-end VOS. SAM 2…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Clayton Bromley , Alexander Moore , Amar Saini , Doug Poland , Carmen Carrano