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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

Recent advancements in pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP have enabled the task of open-vocabulary segmentation. CLIP demonstrates impressive zero-shot capabilities in various downstream tasks that require holistic image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Sule Bai , Yong Liu , Yifei Han , Haoji Zhang , Yansong Tang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

This work presents a tuning-free semantic segmentation framework based on classifying SAM masks by CLIP, which is universally applicable to various types of supervision. Initially, we utilize CLIP's zero-shot classification ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Xiaobo Yang , Xiaojin Gong

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

Vision foundation models such as Contrastive Vision-Language Pre-training (CLIP) and Segment Anything (SAM) have demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance on image classification and segmentation tasks. However, the incorporation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Runnan Chen , Youquan Liu , Lingdong Kong , Nenglun Chen , Xinge Zhu , Yuexin Ma , Tongliang Liu , Wenping Wang

Promptable foundation models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) produce high-quality masks but remain semantically blind, relying on external prompts to specify categories. Existing vision-language approaches address this limitation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Shayan Jalilian , Abdul Bais

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation seeks to label each pixel in an image with arbitrary text descriptions. Vision-language foundation models, especially CLIP, have recently emerged as powerful tools for acquiring open-vocabulary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Zelin Peng , Zhengqin Xu , Zhilin Zeng , Yaoming Wang , Wei Shen

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation presents the challenge of labeling each pixel within an image based on a wide range of text descriptions. In this work, we introduce a novel cost-based approach to adapt vision-language foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Seokju Cho , Heeseong Shin , Sunghwan Hong , Anurag Arnab , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Seungryong Kim

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation requires models to effectively integrate visual representations with open-vocabulary semantic labels. While Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) models shine in recognizing visual concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Mengcheng Lan , Chaofeng Chen , Yiping Ke , Xinjiang Wang , Litong Feng , Wayne Zhang

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) achieves strong generalization in vision-language tasks by aligning images and texts in a shared embedding space. However, recent findings show that CLIP-like models still underutilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Weiheng Zhao , Zilong Huang , Jiashi Feng , Xinggang Wang

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

This paper studies co-segmenting the common semantic object in a set of images. Existing works either rely on carefully engineered networks to mine the implicit semantic information in visual features or require extra data (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Xin Duan , Yan Yang , Liyuan Pan , Xiabi Liu

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) is fundamentally hampered by the coarse, image-level representations of CLIP, which lack precise pixel-level details. Existing training-free methods attempt to resolve this by either importing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Ziquan Liu , Zhewei Zhu , Xuyang Shi

Recent advancements in foundation models, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have significantly impacted medical image segmentation, especially in retinal imaging, where precise segmentation is vital for diagnosis. Despite this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Zhihao Zhao , Yinzheng Zhao , Junjie Yang , Xiangtong Yao , Quanmin Liang , Shahrooz Faghihroohi , Kai Huang , Nassir Navab , M. Ali Nasseri

We propose a method to efficiently equip the Segment Anything Model (SAM) with the ability to generate regional captions. SAM presents strong generalizability to segment anything while is short for semantic understanding. By introducing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Xiaoke Huang , Jianfeng Wang , Yansong Tang , Zheng Zhang , Han Hu , Jiwen Lu , Lijuan Wang , Zicheng Liu

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) and CLIP are remarkable vision foundation models (VFMs). SAM, a prompt driven segmentation model, excels in segmentation tasks across diverse domains, while CLIP is renowned for its zero shot recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Sidra Aleem , Fangyijie Wang , Mayug Maniparambil , Eric Arazo , Julia Dietlmeier , Guenole Silvestre , Kathleen Curran , Noel E. O'Connor , Suzanne Little

CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining) is well-developed for open-vocabulary zero-shot image-level recognition, while its applications in pixel-level tasks are less investigated, where most efforts directly adopt CLIP features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Jie Guo , Qimeng Wang , Yan Gao , Xiaolong Jiang , Xu Tang , Yao Hu , Baochang Zhang

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) excels in global alignment with language but exhibits limited sensitivity to spatial information, leading to strong performance in zero-shot classification tasks but underperformance in tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Congpei Qiu , Yanhao Wu , Wei Ke , Xiuxiu Bai , Tong Zhang

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) exhibits strong zero-shot classification ability on various image-level tasks, leading to the research to adapt CLIP for pixel-level open-vocabulary semantic segmentation without additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Lin Sun , Jiale Cao , Jin Xie , Xiaoheng Jiang , Yanwei Pang

Foundation models have exhibited unprecedented capabilities in tackling many domains and tasks. Models such as CLIP are currently widely used to bridge cross-modal representations, and text-to-image diffusion models are arguably the leading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Barbara Toniella Corradini , Mustafa Shukor , Paul Couairon , Guillaume Couairon , Franco Scarselli , Matthieu Cord