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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

We introduce a method for flexible and efficient continual learning in open-vocabulary image classification, drawing inspiration from the complementary learning systems observed in human cognition. Specifically, we propose to combine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Zhen Zhu , Weijie Lyu , Yao Xiao , Derek Hoiem

Variational Level Set (LS) has been a widely used method in medical segmentation. However, it is limited when dealing with multi-instance objects in the real world. In addition, its segmentation results are quite sensitive to initial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Ngan Le , Kha Gia Quach , Khoa Luu , Marios Savvides , Chenchen Zhu

Video object segmentation aims at accurately segmenting the target object regions across consecutive frames. It is technically challenging for coping with complicated factors (e.g., shape deformations, occlusion and out of the lens). Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Peng Sun , Peiwen Lin , Guangliang Cheng , Jianping Shi , Jiawan Zhang , Xi Li

Audiovisual segmentation (AVS) aims to identify visual regions corresponding to sound sources, playing a vital role in video understanding, surveillance, and human-computer interaction. Traditional AVS methods depend on large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Seung-jae Lee , Paul Hongsuck Seo

Open-Vocabulary Camouflaged Object Segmentation (OVCOS) seeks to segment and classify camouflaged objects from arbitrary categories, presenting unique challenges due to visual ambiguity and unseen categories.Recent approaches typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kai Zhao , Wubang Yuan , Zheng Wang , Guanyi Li , Xiaoqiang Zhu , Deng-ping Fan , Dan Zeng

This paper studies open-vocabulary segmentation (OVS) through calibrating in-vocabulary and domain-biased embedding space with generalized contextual prior of CLIP. As the core of open-vocabulary understanding, alignment of visual content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Yong Liu , Sule Bai , Guanbin Li , Yitong Wang , Yansong Tang

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

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

Current closed-set instance segmentation models rely on pre-defined class labels for each mask during training and evaluation, largely limiting their ability to detect novel objects. Open-world instance segmentation (OWIS) models address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Muzhi Zhu , Hengtao Li , Hao Chen , Chengxiang Fan , Weian Mao , Chenchen Jing , Yifan Liu , Chunhua Shen

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) requires segmenting specific objects in a video guided by a natural language description. The core challenge of RVOS is to anchor abstract linguistic concepts onto a specific set of pixels and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zanyi Wang , Dengyang Jiang , Liuzhuozheng Li , Sizhe Dang , Chengzu Li , Harry Yang , Guang Dai , Mengmeng Wang , Jingdong Wang

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

Video segmentation aims at partitioning video sequences into meaningful segments based on objects or regions of interest within frames. Current video segmentation models are often derived from image segmentation techniques, which struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Chen Liang , Qiang Guo , Xiaochao Qu , Luoqi Liu , Ting Liu

Training-free open-vocabulary remote sensing segmentation (OVRSS), empowered by vision-language models, has emerged as a promising paradigm for achieving category-agnostic semantic understanding in remote sensing imagery. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Wenyang Chen , Zhanxuan Hu , Yaping Zhang , Hailong Ning , Yonghang Tai

Pre-trained vision-language models, e.g. CLIP, have been increasingly used to address the challenging Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) task, benefiting from their well-aligned vision-text embedding space. Typical solutions involve either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Siyu Jiao , Hongguang Zhu , Jiannan Huang , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei , Humphrey Shi

Audio-visual segmentation (AVS) is a challenging task that involves accurately segmenting sounding objects based on audio-visual cues. The effectiveness of audio-visual learning critically depends on achieving accurate cross-modal alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Yuanhong Chen , Yuyuan Liu , Hu Wang , Fengbei Liu , Chong Wang , Helen Frazer , Gustavo Carneiro

Unlike traditional visual segmentation, audio-visual segmentation (AVS) requires the model not only to identify and segment objects but also to determine whether they are sound sources. Recent AVS approaches, leveraging transformer…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Jia Li , Wenjie Zhao , Ziru Huang , Yunhui Guo , Yapeng Tian

Variational Level Set (VLS) has been a widely used method in medical segmentation. However, segmentation accuracy in the VLS method dramatically decreases when dealing with intervening factors such as lighting, shadows, colors, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-12 T. Hoang Ngan Le , Raajitha Gummadi , Marios Savvides

Most existing remote sensing instance segmentation approaches are designed for close-vocabulary prediction, limiting their ability to recognize novel categories or generalize across datasets. This restricts their applicability in diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Shiqi Huang , Shuting He , Huaiyuan Qin , Bihan Wen

Continual learning can empower vision-language models to continuously acquire new knowledge, without the need for access to the entire historical dataset. However, mitigating the performance degradation in large-scale models is non-trivial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jiazuo Yu , Yunzhi Zhuge , Lu Zhang , Ping Hu , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu , You He