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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

Benefiting from the inductive biases learned from large-scale datasets, open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) leverages the power of vision-language models, such as CLIP, to achieve remarkable progress without requiring task-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Qiming Huang , Hao Ai , Jianbo Jiao

Open-Vocabulary Part Segmentation (OVPS) is an emerging field for recognizing fine-grained parts in unseen categories. We identify two primary challenges in OVPS: (1) the difficulty in aligning part-level image-text correspondence, and (2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Jiho Choi , Seonho Lee , Minhyun Lee , Seungho Lee , Hyunjung Shim

Building robust and generic object detection frameworks requires scaling to larger label spaces and bigger training datasets. However, it is prohibitively costly to acquire annotations for thousands of categories at a large scale. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Shiyu Zhao , Zhixing Zhang , Samuel Schulter , Long Zhao , Vijay Kumar B. G , Anastasis Stathopoulos , Manmohan Chandraker , Dimitris Metaxas

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

Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVOD) aims to detect novel objects beyond a given set of base categories on which the detection model is trained. Recent OVOD methods focus on adapting the image-level pre-trained vision-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Ruohuan Fang , Guansong Pang , Xiao Bai

Object detection has been expanded from a limited number of categories to open vocabulary. Moving forward, a complete intelligent vision system requires understanding more fine-grained object descriptions, object parts. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Peize Sun , Shoufa Chen , Chenchen Zhu , Fanyi Xiao , Ping Luo , Saining Xie , Zhicheng Yan

Deep neural networks have shown outstanding performance in computer vision tasks such as semantic segmentation and have defined the state-of-the-art. However, these segmentation models are trained on a closed and predefined set of semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Samuel Marschall , Kira Maag

Thanks to the impressive progress of large-scale vision-language pretraining, recent recognition models can classify arbitrary objects in a zero-shot and open-set manner, with a surprisingly high accuracy. However, translating this success…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Xinyu Liu , Beiwen Tian , Zhen Wang , Rui Wang , Kehua Sheng , Bo Zhang , Hao Zhao , Guyue Zhou

In this paper, we for the first time explore helpful multi-modal contextual knowledge to understand novel categories for open-vocabulary object detection (OVD). The multi-modal contextual knowledge stands for the joint relationship across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Yifan Xu , Mengdan Zhang , Xiaoshan Yang , Changsheng Xu

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

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

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

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) aims to segment and recognize objects universally. Trained on extensive high-quality segmentation data, the segment anything model (SAM) has demonstrated remarkable universal segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Lin Chen , Yingjian Zhu , Qi Yang , Xin Niu , Kun Ding , Shiming Xiang

Open-vocabulary segmentation enables pixel-level recognition from an open set of textual categories, allowing generalization beyond fixed classes. Despite great potential in remote sensing, progress in this area remains largely limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yimin Wei , Aoran Xiao , Hongruixuan Chen , Junshi Xia , Naoto Yokoya

Existing semantic segmentation approaches either aim to improve the object's inner consistency by modeling the global context, or refine objects detail along their boundaries by multi-scale feature fusion. In this paper, a new paradigm for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Xiangtai Li , Xia Li , Li Zhang , Guangliang Cheng , Jianping Shi , Zhouchen Lin , Shaohua Tan , Yunhai Tong

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

Scaling up the vocabulary of semantic segmentation models is extremely challenging because annotating large-scale mask labels is labour-intensive and time-consuming. Recently, language-guided segmentation models have been proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Haojun Yu , Di Dai , Ziwei Zhao , Di He , Han Hu , Liwei Wang

Personal robots and driverless cars need to be able to operate in novel environments and thus quickly and efficiently learn to recognise new object classes. We address this problem by considering the task of video object segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Harkirat Singh Behl , Mohammad Najafi , Anurag Arnab , Philip H. S. Torr

In autonomous driving and robotics, ensuring road safety and reliable decision-making critically depends on out-of-distribution (OOD) segmentation. While numerous methods have been proposed to detect anomalous objects on the road,…

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