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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

From image-text pairs, large-scale vision-language models (VLMs) learn to implicitly associate image regions with words, which prove effective for tasks like visual question answering. However, leveraging the learned association for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jiayun Luo , Siddhesh Khandelwal , Leonid Sigal , Boyang Li

Open-Vocabulary Camouflaged Object Segmentation (OVCOS) seeks to segment and classify camouflaged objects from arbitrary categories, presenting unique challenges due to visual ambiguity and unseen categories.Recent approaches typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kai Zhao , Wubang Yuan , Zheng Wang , Guanyi Li , Xiaoqiang Zhu , Deng-ping Fan , Dan Zeng

Open-vocabulary learning has emerged as a cutting-edge research area, particularly in light of the widespread adoption of vision-based foundational models. Its primary objective is to comprehend novel concepts that are not encompassed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Chunlei Wang , Wenquan Feng , Xiangtai Li , Guangliang Cheng , Shuchang Lyu , Binghao Liu , Lijiang Chen , Qi Zhao

Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) has drawn increasing attention for its capacity to generalize segmentation beyond predefined categories. However, existing methods typically predict segmentation masks with simple forward inference,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Zongyan Han , Jiale Cao , Shuo Chen , Tong Wang , Jorma Laaksonen , Rao Muhammad Anwer

The remote sensing (RS) domain suffers from a lack of densely labeled datasets, which are costly to obtain. Thus, models that can segment RS imagery well without supervised fine-tuning are valuable, but existing solutions fall behind…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Ryan Faulkenberry , Saurabh Prasad

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

In this paper, we first assess and harness various Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) in the context of Domain Generalized Semantic Segmentation (DGSS). Driven by the motivation that Leveraging Stronger pre-trained models and Fewer trainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Zhixiang Wei , Lin Chen , Yi Jin , Xiaoxiao Ma , Tianle Liu , Pengyang Ling , Ben Wang , Huaian Chen , Jinjin Zheng

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) involves assigning labels to each pixel in an image based on textual descriptions, leveraging world models like CLIP. However, they encounter significant challenges in cross-domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Aniruddh Sikdar , Aditya Gandhamal , Suresh Sundaram

Segmentation models are typically constrained by the categories defined during training. To address this, researchers have explored two independent approaches: adapting Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and leveraging synthetic data. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Roberto Alcover-Couso , Marcos Escudero-Viñolo , Juan C. SanMiguel , Jesus Bescos

Vision-language models (VLMs) excel in visual understanding but often lack reliable grounding capabilities and actionable inference rates. Integrating them with open-vocabulary object detection (OVD), instance segmentation, and tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Bastian Pätzold , Jan Nogga , Sven Behnke

Understanding 3D scenes is pivotal for autonomous driving, robotics, and augmented reality. Recent semantic Gaussian Splatting approaches leverage large-scale 2D vision models to project 2D semantic features onto 3D scenes. However, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Tianyu Huang , Runnan Chen , Dongting Hu , Fengming Huang , Mingming Gong , Tongliang Liu

Event cameras, known for low-latency operation and superior performance in challenging lighting conditions, are suitable for sensitive computer vision tasks such as semantic segmentation in autonomous driving. However, challenges arise due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Muhammad Rameez Ur Rahman , Jhony H. Giraldo , Indro Spinelli , Stéphane Lathuilière , Fabio Galasso

Remote sensing image plays an irreplaceable role in fields such as agriculture, water resources, military, and disaster relief. Pixel-level interpretation is a critical aspect of remote sensing image applications; however, a prevalent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Kaiyu Li , Ruixun Liu , Xiangyong Cao , Xueru Bai , Feng Zhou , Deyu Meng , Zhi Wang

3D semantic segmentation provides high-level scene understanding for applications in robotics, autonomous systems, \textit{etc}. Traditional methods adapt exclusively to either task-specific goals (open-vocabulary segmentation) or scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Doriand Petit , Steve Bourgeois , Vincent Gay-Bellile , Florian Chabot , Loïc Barthe

Video semantic segmentation (VSS) is beneficial for dealing with dynamic scenes due to the continuous property of the real-world environment. On the one hand, some methods alleviate the predicted inconsistent problem between continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Yuhang Zhang , Shishun Tian , Muxin Liao , Zhengyu Zhang , Wenbin Zou , Chen Xu

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

Open-Vocabulary Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) is attracting increasing attention due to its ability to segment and track arbitrary objects. However, the recent Open-Vocabulary VIS attempts obtained unsatisfactory results, especially in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Hao Fang , Peng Wu , Yawei Li , Xinxin Zhang , Xiankai Lu

This paper studies open-vocabulary segmentation (OVS) through calibrating in-vocabulary and domain-biased embedding space with generalized contextual prior of CLIP. As the core of open-vocabulary understanding, alignment of visual content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Yong Liu , Sule Bai , Guanbin Li , Yitong Wang , Yansong Tang

Remote sensing visual grounding (RSVG) aims to localize objects in remote sensing images based on free-form natural language expressions. Existing approaches are typically constrained to closed-set vocabularies, limiting their applicability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Ke Li , Di Wang , Ting Wang , Fuyu Dong , Yiming Zhang , Luyao Zhang , Xiangyu Wang , Shaofeng Li , Quan Wang