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In recent years, vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced open-vocabulary mapping, enabling mobile robots to simultaneously achieve environmental reconstruction and high-level semantic understanding. While integrated object cognition…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yinan Deng , Bicheng Yao , Yihang Tang , Yi Yang , Yufeng Yue

Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) aims at segmenting and categorizing objects in videos from a closed set of training categories, lacking the generalization ability to handle novel categories in real-world videos. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Haochen Wang , Cilin Yan , Shuai Wang , Xiaolong Jiang , XU Tang , Yao Hu , Weidi Xie , Efstratios Gavves

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) learn to align vision and language representations on large-scale datasets, where each image-text pair usually contains a bag of semantic concepts. However, existing open-vocabulary object detectors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Size Wu , Wenwei Zhang , Sheng Jin , Wentao Liu , Chen Change Loy

Foundation Vision-Language Models (VLMs) trained using large-scale open-domain images and text pairs have recently been adapted to develop Vision-Language Segmentation Models (VLSMs) that allow providing text prompts during inference to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Manish Dhakal , Rabin Adhikari , Safal Thapaliya , Bishesh Khanal

We present Visual-Language Fields (VL-Fields), a neural implicit spatial representation that enables open-vocabulary semantic queries. Our model encodes and fuses the geometry of a scene with vision-language trained latent features by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Nikolaos Tsagkas , Oisin Mac Aodha , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu

Open-vocabulary 3D object detection (OV-3DDet) aims to localize and recognize both seen and previously unseen object categories within any new 3D scene. While language and vision foundation models have achieved success in handling various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Pengkun Jiao , Na Zhao , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have led to improved performance on tasks such as visual question answering and image captioning. Consequently, these models are now well-positioned to reason about the physical world,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Jensen Gao , Bidipta Sarkar , Fei Xia , Ted Xiao , Jiajun Wu , Brian Ichter , Anirudha Majumdar , Dorsa Sadigh

As the most fundamental scene understanding tasks, object detection and segmentation have made tremendous progress in deep learning era. Due to the expensive manual labeling cost, the annotated categories in existing datasets are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Chaoyang Zhu , Long Chen

The goal of this paper is open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) $\unicode{x2013}$ building a model that can detect objects beyond the set of categories seen at training, thus enabling the user to specify categories of interest at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Prannay Kaul , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved impressive performance across a wide range of multimodal tasks. However, they often fail on tasks that require fine-grained visual perception, even when the required information is still present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Haz Sameen Shahgir , Xiaofu Chen , Yu Fu , Erfan Shayegani , Nael Abu-Ghazaleh , Yova Kementchedjhieva , Yue Dong

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

For a vision-language model (VLM) to understand the physical world, such as cause and effect, a first step is to capture the temporal dynamics of the visual world, for example how the physical states of objects evolve over time (e.g. a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Kaleb Newman , Shijie Wang , Yuan Zang , David Heffren , Chen Sun

Visual grounding refers to the ability of a model to identify a region within some visual input that matches a textual description. Consequently, a model equipped with visual grounding capabilities can target a wide range of applications in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Georgios Pantazopoulos , Eda B. Özyiğit

Temporal Action Segmentation (TAS) requires dividing videos into action segments, yet the vast space of activities and alternative breakdowns makes collecting comprehensive datasets infeasible. Existing methods remain limited to closed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Asim Unmesh , Kaki Ramesh , Mayank Patel , Rahul Jain , Karthik Ramani

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong image-level visual understanding and reasoning, yet their pixel-level perception across both images and videos remains limited. Foundation segmentation models such as the SAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hao Wang , Limeng Qiao , Chi Zhang , Lin Ma , Guanglu Wan , Xiangyuan Lan , Xiaodan Liang

Inspired by the success of vision-language methods (VLMs) in zero-shot classification, recent works attempt to extend this line of work into object detection by leveraging the localization ability of pre-trained VLMs and generating pseudo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Yanxin Long , Jianhua Han , Runhui Huang , Xu Hang , Yi Zhu , Chunjing Xu , Xiaodan Liang

Vision-language models (VLMs) have excelled in multimodal tasks, but adapting them to embodied decision-making in open-world environments presents challenges. One critical issue is bridging the gap between discrete entities in low-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Shaofei Cai , Zihao Wang , Kewei Lian , Zhancun Mu , Xiaojian Ma , Anji Liu , Yitao Liang

Visual objects often have acoustic signatures that are naturally synchronized with them in audio-bearing video recordings. For this project, we explore the multimodal feature aggregation for video instance segmentation task, in which we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Kaihui Zheng , Yuqing Ren , Zixin Shen , Tianxu Qin

Action detection aims to detect (recognize and localize) human actions spatially and temporally in videos. Existing approaches focus on the closed-set setting where an action detector is trained and tested on videos from a fixed set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Wentao Bao , Kai Li , Yuxiao Chen , Deep Patel , Martin Renqiang Min , Yu Kong

We propose VisTex-OVLM, a novel image prompted object detection method that introduces visual textualization -- a process that projects a few visual exemplars into the text feature space to enhance Object-level Vision-Language Models'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yongjian Wu , Yang Zhou , Jiya Saiyin , Bingzheng Wei , Yan Xu