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Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation enables models to recognize and segment objects from arbitrary natural language descriptions, offering the flexibility to handle novel, fine-grained, or functionally defined categories beyond fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Chongyu Wang , Kunlei Jing , Jihua Zhu , Di Wang

Open-vocabulary image segmentation aims to partition an image into semantic regions according to arbitrary text descriptions. However, complex visual scenes can be naturally decomposed into simpler parts and abstracted at multiple levels of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Xudong Wang , Shufan Li , Konstantinos Kallidromitis , Yusuke Kato , Kazuki Kozuka , Trevor Darrell

Semantic segmentation takes pivotal roles in various applications such as autonomous driving and medical image analysis. When deploying segmentation models in practice, it is critical to test their behaviors in varied and complex scenes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zijin Yin , Bing Li , Kongming Liang , Hao Sun , Zhongjiang He , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo

Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation (OVSS) has advanced with recent vision-language models (VLMs), enabling segmentation beyond predefined categories through various learning schemes. Notably, training-free methods offer scalable, easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Chanyoung Kim , Dayun Ju , Woojung Han , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Seong Jae Hwang

Image segmentation is a long-standing challenge in computer vision, studied continuously over several decades, as evidenced by seminal algorithms such as N-Cut, FCN, and MaskFormer. With the advent of foundation models (FMs), contemporary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Tianfei Zhou , Wang Xia , Fei Zhang , Boyu Chang , Wenguan Wang , Ye Yuan , Ender Konukoglu , Daniel Cremers

The CLIP and Segment Anything Model (SAM) are remarkable vision foundation models (VFMs). SAM excels in segmentation tasks across diverse domains, whereas CLIP is renowned for its zero-shot recognition capabilities. This paper presents an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Haobo Yuan , Xiangtai Li , Chong Zhou , Yining Li , Kai Chen , Chen Change Loy

Recent advances in 3D semantic segmentation with deep neural networks have shown remarkable success, with rapid performance increase on available datasets. However, current 3D semantic segmentation benchmarks contain only a small number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 David Rozenberszki , Or Litany , Angela Dai

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) was originally designed for label-agnostic mask generation. Does this model also possess inherent semantic understanding, of value to broader visual tasks? In this work we follow a multi-staged approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Miguel Espinosa , Chenhongyi Yang , Linus Ericsson , Steven McDonagh , Elliot J. Crowley

Open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding presents a significant challenge in the field. Recent works have sought to transfer knowledge embedded in vision-language models from 2D to 3D domains. However, these approaches often require prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Hanchen Tai , Qingdong He , Jiangning Zhang , Yijie Qian , Zhenyu Zhang , Xiaobin Hu , Xiangtai Li , Yabiao Wang , Yong Liu

Prompt engineering has shown remarkable success with large language models, yet its systematic exploration in computer vision remains limited. In semantic segmentation, both textual and visual prompts offer distinct advantages: textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Gabriele Rosi , Fabio Cermelli

Semantic segmentation is a critical technique for effective scene understanding. Traditional RGB-T semantic segmentation models often struggle to generalize across diverse scenarios due to their reliance on pretrained models and predefined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Meng Yu , Luojie Yang , Xunjie He , Yi Yang , Yufeng Yue

Semantic processing is a fundamental research domain in computational linguistics. In the era of powerful pre-trained language models and large language models, the advancement of research in this domain appears to be decelerating. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Rui Mao , Kai He , Xulang Zhang , Guanyi Chen , Jinjie Ni , Zonglin Yang , Erik Cambria

Language-guided segmentation transcends the scope limitations of traditional semantic segmentation, enabling models to segment arbitrary target regions based on natural language instructions. Existing approaches typically adopt a two-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Chao Hao , Jun Xu , Ji Du , Shuo Ye , Ziyue Qiao , Xiaodong Cun , Guangcong Wang , Xubin Zheng , Zitong Yu

We introduce the first zero-shot approach for Video Semantic Segmentation (VSS) based on pre-trained diffusion models. A growing research direction attempts to employ diffusion models to perform downstream vision tasks by exploiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Qian Wang , Abdelrahman Eldesokey , Mohit Mendiratta , Fangneng Zhan , Adam Kortylewski , Christian Theobalt , Peter Wonka

While Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has advanced open-vocabulary predictions, its performance on semantic segmentation remains suboptimal. This shortfall primarily stems from its spatial-invariant semantic features and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Yuheng Shi , Minjing Dong , Chang Xu

Image segmentation is usually addressed by training a model for a fixed set of object classes. Incorporating additional classes or more complex queries later is expensive as it requires re-training the model on a dataset that encompasses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Timo Lüddecke , Alexander S. Ecker

Vision-language segmentation models have recently achieved strong performance by leveraging high-level semantic object categories expressed in natural language. However, this semantic dependence limits their ability to reason about…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Corentin Seutin , Mohamed Amine Ettaki , Michaël Clément , Pierrick Coupé , Rémi Giraud

Referring image segmentation, the task of segmenting any arbitrary entities described in free-form texts, opens up a variety of vision applications. However, manual labeling of training data for this task is prohibitively costly, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Dongwon Kim , Namyup Kim , Cuiling Lan , Suha Kwak

Image segmentation refers to the process to divide an image into nonoverlapping meaningful regions according to human perception, which has become a classic topic since the early ages of computer vision. A lot of research has been conducted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-04 Hongyuan Zhu , Fanman Meng , Jianfei Cai , Shijian Lu

From the autonomous car driving to medical diagnosis, the requirement of the task of image segmentation is everywhere. Segmentation of an image is one of the indispensable tasks in computer vision. This task is comparatively complicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Farhana Sultana , Abu Sufian , Paramartha Dutta