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Recent advancements in 3D perception systems have significantly improved their ability to perform visual recognition tasks such as segmentation. However, these systems still heavily rely on explicit human instruction to identify target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Amrin Kareem , Jean Lahoud , Hisham Cholakkal

Reasoning segmentation seeks pixel-accurate masks for targets referenced by complex, often implicit instructions, requiring context-dependent reasoning over the scene. Recent multimodal language models have advanced instruction following…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Prantik Howlader , Hoang Nguyen-Canh , Srijan Das , Jingyi Xu , Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

Reasoning about potential occlusions is essential for robots to efficiently predict whether an object exists in an environment. Though existing work shows that a robot with active perception can achieve various tasks, it is still unclear if…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Mengdi Li , Cornelius Weber , Matthias Kerzel , Jae Hee Lee , Zheni Zeng , Zhiyuan Liu , Stefan Wermter

Reasoning segmentation aims to segment target objects in complex scenes based on human intent and spatial reasoning. While recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive 2D image reasoning segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jiaxin Huang , Runnan Chen , Ziwen Li , Zhengqing Gao , Xiao He , Yandong Guo , Mingming Gong , Tongliang Liu

Accurately localizing audible objects based on audio-visual cues is the core objective of audio-visual segmentation. Most previous methods emphasize spatial or temporal multi-modal modeling, yet overlook challenges from ambiguous…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Chen Liu , Peike Li , Liying Yang , Dadong Wang , Lincheng Li , Xin Yu

We present a learning approach for localization and segmentation of objects in an image in a manner that is robust to partial occlusion. Our algorithm produces a bounding box around the full extent of the object and labels pixels in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-29 Samarth Brahmbhatt , Heni Ben Amor , Henrik Christensen

Navigating dynamic and unstructured environments poses significant challenges for autonomous robots, particularly due to the uncertainty introduced by occluded areas. Conventional sensing methods often fail to detect obstacles hidden behind…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Sithija Ranaraja

Robots need to have a memory of previously observed, but currently occluded objects to work reliably in realistic environments. We investigate the problem of encoding object-oriented memory into a multi-object manipulation reasoning and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yixuan Huang , Jialin Yuan , Chanho Kim , Pupul Pradhan , Bryan Chen , Li Fuxin , Tucker Hermans

Comprehending occluded objects are not well studied in existing large-scale visual-language multi-modal models. Current state-of-the-art multi-modal large models struggles to provide satisfactory results in understanding occluded objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Chaoyi Wang , Baoqing Li , Xinhan Di

Semantic amodal segmentation is a recently proposed extension to instance-aware segmentation that includes the prediction of the invisible region of each object instance. We present the first all-in-one end-to-end trainable model for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Patrick Follmann , Rebecca König , Philipp Härtinger , Michael Klostermann

We consider the problem of amodal instance segmentation, the objective of which is to predict the region encompassing both visible and occluded parts of each object. Thus far, the lack of publicly available amodal segmentation annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-18 Ke Li , Jitendra Malik

Images of realistic scenes often contain intra-class objects that are heavily occluded from each other, making the amodal perception task that requires parsing the occluded parts of the objects challenging. Although important for downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Jiayang Ao , Qiuhong Ke , Krista A. Ehinger

Panoramic images can broaden the Field of View (FoV), occlusion-aware prediction can deepen the understanding of the scene, and domain adaptation can transfer across viewing domains. In this work, we introduce a novel task, Occlusion-Aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Yihong Cao , Jiaming Zhang , Hao Shi , Kunyu Peng , Yuhongxuan Zhang , Hui Zhang , Rainer Stiefelhagen , Kailun Yang

Segmentation of surgical instruments is crucial for enhancing surgeon performance and ensuring patient safety. Conventional techniques such as binary, semantic, and instance segmentation share a common drawback: they do not accommodate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Ruohua Shi , Zhaochen Liu , Lingyu Duan , Tingting Jiang

This paper addresses weakly supervised amodal instance segmentation, where the goal is to segment both visible and occluded (amodal) object parts, while training provides only ground-truth visible (modal) segmentations. Following prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Khoi Nguyen , Sinisa Todorovic

Deep Learning of neural networks has gained prominence in multiple life-critical applications like medical diagnoses and autonomous vehicle accident investigations. However, concerns about model transparency and biases persist. Explainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Pedro Valois , Koichiro Niinuma , Kazuhiro Fukui

Current universal segmentation methods demonstrate strong capabilities in pixel-level image and video understanding. However, they lack reasoning abilities and cannot be controlled via text instructions. In contrast, large vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Tao Zhang , Xiangtai Li , Hao Fei , Haobo Yuan , Shengqiong Wu , Shunping Ji , Chen Change Loy , Shuicheng Yan

Recent efforts in video reasoning segmentation (VRS) integrate large language models (LLMs) with perception models to localize and track objects via textual instructions, achieving barely satisfactory results in simple scenarios. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Rongkun Zheng , Lu Qi , Xi Chen , Yi Wang , Kun Wang , Yu Qiao , Hengshuang Zhao

Occlusion-aware instance-sensitive segmentation is a complex task generally split into region-based segmentations, by approximating instances as their bounding box. We address the showcase scenario of dense homogeneous layouts in which this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Matthieu Grard , Emmanuel Dellandréa , Liming Chen

This paper proposes a method for visually explaining the decision-making process of video recognition networks with a temporal extension of occlusion sensitivity analysis, called Adaptive Occlusion Sensitivity Analysis (AOSA). The key idea…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Tomoki Uchiyama , Naoya Sogi , Satoshi Iizuka , Koichiro Niinuma , Kazuhiro Fukui