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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

Remote sensing object detection has made significant progress, but most studies still focus on closed-set detection, limiting generalization across diverse datasets. Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) provides a solution by leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Ziyue Huang , Yongchao Feng , Shuai Yang , Ziqi Liu , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Increasing attention is being diverted to data-efficient problem settings like Open Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation (OVSS) which deals with segmenting an arbitrary object that may or may not be seen during training. The closest standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Prashant Pandey , Mustafa Chasmai , Monish Natarajan , Brejesh Lall

Compared with natural images, remote sensing images (RSIs) have the unique characteristic. i.e., larger intraclass variance, which makes semantic segmentation for remote sensing images more challenging. Moreover, existing semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Wei Zhang , Mengting Ma , Yizhen Jiang , Rongrong Lian , Zhenkai Wu , Kangning Cui , Xiaowen Ma

Domain Generalization in Semantic Segmentation (DG-SS) aims to enable segmentation models to perform robustly in unseen environments. However, conventional DG-SS methods are restricted to a fixed set of known categories, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Dong Zhao , Qi Zang , Nan Pu , Wenjing Li , Nicu Sebe , Zhun Zhong

Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation is a complex and challenging task that integrates the paradigms of computer vision and natural language processing. Existing datasets for RRSIS suffer from critical limitations in resolution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Zhigang Yang , Huiguang Yao , Linmao Tian , Xuezhi Zhao , Qiang Li , Qi Wang

In this paper, we consider the problem of open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVS), which aims to segment objects of arbitrary classes instead of pre-defined, closed-set categories. The main contributions are as follows: First, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Jilan Xu , Junlin Hou , Yuejie Zhang , Rui Feng , Yi Wang , Yu Qiao , Weidi Xie

For semantic segmentation of remote sensing images (RSI), trade-off between representation power and location accuracy is quite important. How to get the trade-off effectively is an open question,where current approaches of utilizing very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Shuang He , Xia Lu , Jason Gu , Haitong Tang , Qin Yu , Kaiyue Liu , Haozhou Ding , Chunqi Chang , Nizhuan Wang

Localizing desired objects from remote sensing images is of great use in practical applications. Referring image segmentation, which aims at segmenting out the objects to which a given expression refers, has been extensively studied in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zhenghang Yuan , Lichao Mou , Yuansheng Hua , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Land cover maps generated from semantic segmentation of high-resolution remotely sensed images have drawn mucon in the photogrammetry and remote sensing research community. Currently, massive fine-resolution remotely sensed (FRRS) images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Naftaly Wambugu , Ruisheng Wang , Bo Guo , Tianshu Yu , Sheng Xu , Mohammed Elhassan

In this paper, we propose ReSeg-CLIP, a new training-free Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation method for remote sensing data. To compensate for the problems of vision language models, such as CLIP in semantic segmentation caused by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Mohammadreza Heidarianbaei , Mareike Dorozynski , Hubert Kanyamahanga , Max Mehltretter , Franz Rottensteiner

Semantic segmentation (SS) of RSIs enables the fine-grained interpretation of surface features, making it a critical task in RS analysis. With the increasing diversity and volume of RSIs collected by sensors on various platforms,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Quanwei Liu , Tao Huang , Jiaqi Yang , Wei Xiang

Referring remote sensing image segmentation (RRSIS) enables the precise delineation of regions within remote sensing imagery through natural language descriptions, serving critical applications in disaster response, urban development, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Zhe Dong , Yuzhe Sun , Tianzhu Liu , Yanfeng Gu

Panoramic images, capturing a 360{\deg} field of view (FoV), encompass omnidirectional spatial information crucial for scene understanding. However, it is not only costly to obtain training-sufficient dense-annotated panoramas but also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Junwei Zheng , Ruiping Liu , Yufan Chen , Kunyu Peng , Chengzhi Wu , Kailun Yang , Jiaming Zhang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Open-Vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) and domain generalization in semantic segmentation (DGSS) highlight a subtle complementarity that motivates Open-Vocabulary Domain-Generalized Semantic Segmentation (OV-DGSS). OV-DGSS aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Siyu Chen , Ting Han , Chengzheng Fu , Changshe Zhang , Chaolei Wang , Jinhe Su , Guorong Cai , Meiliu Wu

Large Vision--Language Models (LVLMs) hold great promise for advancing optical remote sensing (RS) analysis, yet existing reasoning segmentation frameworks couple linguistic reasoning and pixel prediction through end-to-end supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Xu Zhang , Junyao Ge , Yang Zheng , Kaitai Guo , Jimin Liang

Remote sensing imagery has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its instrumental role in global environmental monitoring, land usage monitoring, and more. As image databases grow each year, performing automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jielu Zhang , Zhongliang Zhou , Gengchen Mai , Mengxuan Hu , Zihan Guan , Sheng Li , Lan Mu

Geometric information in the normalized digital surface models (nDSM) is highly correlated with the semantic class of the land cover. Exploiting two modalities (RGB and nDSM (height)) jointly has great potential to improve the segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Zhitong Xiong , Sining Chen , Yi Wang , Lichao Mou , Xiao Xiang Zhu

In this paper, we propose a novel task termed Omni-Referring Image Segmentation (OmniRIS) towards highly generalized image segmentation. Compared with existing unimodally conditioned segmentation tasks, such as RIS and visual RIS, OmniRIS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Qiancheng Zheng , Yunhang Shen , Gen Luo , Baiyang Song , Xing Sun , Xiaoshuai Sun , Yiyi Zhou , Rongrong Ji

Referring remote sensing image segmentation is crucial for achieving fine-grained visual understanding through free-format textual input, enabling enhanced scene and object extraction in remote sensing applications. Current research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Keyan Chen , Jiafan Zhang , Chenyang Liu , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi