English
Related papers

Related papers: Towards Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation With…

200 papers

Dense visual prediction tasks have been constrained by their reliance on predefined categories, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios where visual concepts are unbounded. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Junjie Wang , Bin Chen , Yulin Li , Bin Kang , Yichi Chen , Zhuotao Tian

It is widely agreed that open-vocabulary-based approaches outperform classical closed-set training solutions for recognizing unseen objects in images for semantic segmentation. Existing open-vocabulary approaches leverage vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Huadong Tang , Youpeng Zhao , Yan Huang , Min Xu , Jun Wang , Qiang Wu

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

In this paper, we introduce DetailCLIP: A Detail-Oriented CLIP to address the limitations of contrastive learning-based vision-language models, particularly CLIP, in handling detail-oriented and fine-grained tasks like segmentation. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Amin Karimi Monsefi , Kishore Prakash Sailaja , Ali Alilooee , Ser-Nam Lim , Rajiv Ramnath

This paper presents a novel training-free framework for open-vocabulary image segmentation and object recognition (OVSR), which leverages EfficientNetB0, a convolutional neural network, for unsupervised segmentation and CLIP, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ying Dai , Wei Yu Chen

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation models aim to accurately assign a semantic label to each pixel in an image from a set of arbitrary open-vocabulary texts. In order to learn such pixel-level alignment, current approaches typically rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Zihang Lai

The recent years have witnessed the remarkable development for open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) using visual-language foundation models, yet still suffer from following fundamental challenges: (1) insufficient cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jing Wang , Huimin Shi , Quan Zhou , Qibo Liu , Suofei Zhang , Huimin Lu

Multi-label recognition with partial labels (MLR-PL), in which only some labels are known while others are unknown for each image, is a practical task in computer vision, since collecting large-scale and complete multi-label datasets is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Haoxian Ruan , Zhihua Xu , Zhijing Yang , Yongyi Lu , Jinghui Qin , Tianshui Chen

To address the limitations of existing open-vocabulary object recognition methods, specifically high system complexity, substantial training costs, and limited generalization, this paper proposes a novel Open-Vocabulary Object Recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Wei Yu Chen , Ying Dai

Recently, CLIP has been applied to pixel-level zero-shot learning tasks via a two-stage scheme. The general idea is to first generate class-agnostic region proposals and then feed the cropped proposal regions to CLIP to utilize its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ziqin Zhou , Bowen Zhang , Yinjie Lei , Lingqiao Liu , Yifan Liu

Despite the significant progress in deep learning for dense visual recognition problems, such as semantic segmentation, traditional methods are constrained by fixed class sets. Meanwhile, vision-language foundation models, such as CLIP,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Sina Hajimiri , Ismail Ben Ayed , Jose Dolz

Recent advancements in pre-trained vision-language models, such as CLIP, have enabled the segmentation of arbitrary concepts solely from textual inputs, a process commonly referred to as open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVS). However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Kunyang Han , Yong Liu , Jun Hao Liew , Henghui Ding , Yunchao Wei , Jiajun Liu , Yitong Wang , Yansong Tang , Yujiu Yang , Jiashi Feng , Yao Zhao

Despite the success of large-scale pretrained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) especially CLIP in various open-vocabulary tasks, their application to semantic segmentation remains challenging, producing noisy segmentation maps with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Mengcheng Lan , Chaofeng Chen , Yiping Ke , Xinjiang Wang , Litong Feng , Wayne Zhang

The popular CLIP model displays impressive zero-shot capabilities thanks to its seamless interaction with arbitrary text prompts. However, its lack of spatial awareness makes it unsuitable for dense computer vision tasks, e.g., semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Monika Wysoczańska , Oriane Siméoni , Michaël Ramamonjisoa , Andrei Bursuc , Tomasz Trzciński , Patrick Pérez

Existing open-vocabulary image segmentation methods require a fine-tuning step on mask labels and/or image-text datasets. Mask labels are labor-intensive, which limits the number of categories in segmentation datasets. Consequently, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Shuyang Sun , Runjia Li , Philip Torr , Xiuye Gu , Siyang Li

Given an input image and set of class names, panoptic segmentation aims to label each pixel in an image with class labels and instance labels. In comparison, Open Vocabulary Panoptic Segmentation aims to facilitate the segmentation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Nafis Sadeq , Qingfeng Liu , Mostafa El-Khamy

Semantic segmentation is a crucial task in computer vision that involves segmenting images into semantically meaningful regions at the pixel level. However, existing approaches often rely on expensive human annotations as supervision for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Jun Chen , Deyao Zhu , Guocheng Qian , Bernard Ghanem , Zhicheng Yan , Chenchen Zhu , Fanyi Xiao , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Sean Chang Culatana

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims to assign semantic labels to each pixel without being constrained by a predefined set of categories. While Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) excels in zero-shot classification, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Dengke Zhang , Fagui Liu , Quan Tang

Treating texts as images, combining prompts with textual labels for prompt tuning, and leveraging the alignment properties of CLIP have been successfully applied in zero-shot multi-label image recognition. Nonetheless, relying solely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Haonan Xu , Dian Chao , Xiangyu Wu , Zhonghua Wan , Yang Yang

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) requires a model to both classify known categories and cluster unknown categories in unlabeled data. Prior methods leveraged self-supervised pre-training combined with supervised fine-tuning on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Rabah Ouldnoughi , Chia-Wen Kuo , Zsolt Kira