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Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) has drawn increasing attention for its capacity to generalize segmentation beyond predefined categories. However, existing methods typically predict segmentation masks with simple forward inference,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Zongyan Han , Jiale Cao , Shuo Chen , Tong Wang , Jorma Laaksonen , Rao Muhammad Anwer

Segmenting and recognizing diverse object parts is a crucial ability in applications spanning various computer vision and robotic tasks. While significant progress has been made in object-level Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation (OVSS),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Meng Wei , Xiaoyu Yue , Wenwei Zhang , Shu Kong , Xihui Liu , Jiangmiao Pang

Recently, significant progress has been made in multi-modal continual learning, aiming to learn new tasks sequentially in multi-modal settings while preserving performance on previously learned ones. However, existing methods mainly focus…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yuyang Hong , Qi Yang , Tao Zhang , Zili Wang , Zhaojin Fu , Kun Ding , Bin Fan , Shiming Xiang

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

Temporal Action Segmentation (TAS) requires dividing videos into action segments, yet the vast space of activities and alternative breakdowns makes collecting comprehensive datasets infeasible. Existing methods remain limited to closed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Asim Unmesh , Kaki Ramesh , Mayank Patel , Rahul Jain , Karthik Ramani

Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) aims to segment image regions beyond predefined category sets by leveraging semantic descriptions. While CLIP based approaches excel in semantic generalization, they frequently lack the fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Haoxi Zeng , Qiankun Liu , Yi Bin , Haiyue Zhang , Yujuan Ding , Guoqing Wang , Deqiang Ouyang , Heng Tao Shen

Open-Vocabulary Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (OVRSIS), an emerging task that adapts Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) to the remote sensing (RS) domain, remains underexplored due to the absence of a unified evaluation benchmark and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Bingyu Li , Haocheng Dong , Da Zhang , Zhiyuan Zhao , Junyu Gao , Xuelong Li

Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) aims to produce pixel-level masks of sound producing objects in videos, by jointly learning from audio and visual signals. However, real-world environments are inherently dynamic, causing audio and visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Siddeshwar Raghavan , Gautham Vinod , Bruce Coburn , Fengqing Zhu

Recent state-of-the-art semi-supervised Video Object Segmentation (VOS) methods have shown significant improvements in target object segmentation accuracy when information from preceding frames is used in segmenting the current frame. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Amir Nazemi , Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Zahra Gharaee , Paul Fieguth

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) extends traditional closed-set segmentation by enabling pixel-wise annotation for both seen and unseen categories using arbitrary textual descriptions. While existing methods leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Junyang Chen , Xiangbo Lv , Zhiqiang Kou , Xingdong Sheng , Ning Xu , Yiguo Qiao

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) aims to detect the objects beyond the set of classes observed during training. This work introduces a straightforward and efficient strategy that utilizes pre-trained vision-language models (VLM),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Shilin Xu , Xiangtai Li , Size Wu , Wenwei Zhang , Yunhai Tong , Chen Change Loy

In recent years, vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced open-vocabulary mapping, enabling mobile robots to simultaneously achieve environmental reconstruction and high-level semantic understanding. While integrated object cognition…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yinan Deng , Bicheng Yao , Yihang Tang , Yi Yang , Yufeng Yue

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 present a novel approach to unsupervised learning for video object segmentation (VOS). Unlike previous work, our formulation allows to learn dense feature representations directly in a fully convolutional regime. We rely on uniform grid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Nikita Araslanov , Simone Schaub-Meyer , Stefan Roth

A common problem for automatic speech recognition systems is how to recognize words that they did not see during training. Currently there is no established method of evaluating different techniques for tackling this problem. We propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Rudolf A. Braun , Srikanth Madikeri , Petr Motlicek

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

In the realm of food computing, segmenting ingredients from images poses substantial challenges due to the large intra-class variance among the same ingredients, the emergence of new ingredients, and the high annotation costs associated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Xiongwei Wu , Sicheng Yu , Ee-Peng Lim , Chong-Wah Ngo

Continual learning in real-world scenarios is a major challenge. A general continual learning model should have a constant memory size and no predefined task boundaries, as is the case in semi-supervised Video Object Segmentation (VOS),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Amir Nazemi , Zeyad Moustafa , Paul Fieguth

Recently, a few open-vocabulary methods have been proposed by employing a unified architecture to tackle generic segmentation and detection tasks. However, their performance still lags behind the task-specific models due to the conflict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Shuai Li , Minghan Li , Pengfei Wang , Lei Zhang

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