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Open-vocabulary segmentation aims to identify and segment specific regions and objects based on text-based descriptions. A common solution is to leverage powerful vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, to bridge the gap between vision…

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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…

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Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) aims to segment and recognize objects universally. Trained on extensive high-quality segmentation data, the segment anything model (SAM) has demonstrated remarkable universal segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Lin Chen , Yingjian Zhu , Qi Yang , Xin Niu , Kun Ding , Shiming Xiang

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

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) conducts pixel-level classification via text-driven alignment, where the domain discrepancy between base category training and open-vocabulary inference poses challenges in discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Jiahao Li , Yang Lu , Yachao Zhang , Fangyong Wang , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu

The rapid development of Vision Foundation Model (VFM) brings inherent out-domain generalization for a variety of down-stream tasks. Among them, domain generalized semantic segmentation (DGSS) holds unique challenges as the cross-domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Jingjun Yi , Qi Bi , Hao Zheng , Haolan Zhan , Wei Ji , Yawen Huang , Yuexiang Li , Yefeng Zheng

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) aims to segment arbitrary category regions in images using open-vocabulary prompts, necessitating that existing methods possess pixel-level vision-language alignment capability. Typically, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Jiahao Li , Yang Lu , Yachao Zhang , Fangyong Wang , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) in remote sensing images is a promising task that employs textual descriptions for identifying undefined land cover categories. Despite notable advances, existing methods typically employ a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Guanchun Wang , Chenxiao Wu , Xiangrong Zhang , Zelin Peng , Jianxun Lai , Tianyang Zhang , Xu Tang

Domain generalization aims at training on source domains to uncover a domain-invariant feature space, allowing the model to perform robust generalization ability on unknown target domains. However, due to domain gaps, it is hard to find…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Yanmei Wang , Xiyao Liu , Fupeng Chu , Zhi Han

Training-free open-vocabulary semantic segmentation(TF-OVSS) has recently attracted attention for its ability to perform dense prediction by leveraging the pretrained knowledge of large vision and vision-language models, without requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Seungjae Moon , Seunghyun Oh , Youngmin Ro

Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) methods are capable of performing semantic segmentation without relying on a fixed vocabulary, and in some cases, without training or fine-tuning. However, OVS methods typically require a human in the loop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Osman Ülger , Maksymilian Kulicki , Yuki Asano , Martin R. Oswald

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) aims to enable models to segment novel/unseen object classes using only a limited number of labeled examples. However, current FSS methods frequently struggle with generalization due to incomplete and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Amin Karimi , Charalambos Poullis

Recently, the emergence of the large-scale vision-language model (VLM), such as CLIP, has opened the way towards open-world object perception. Many works have explored the utilization of pre-trained VLM for the challenging open-vocabulary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Youwei Pang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Jiaming Zuo , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) requires segmenting specific objects in a video guided by a natural language description. The core challenge of RVOS is to anchor abstract linguistic concepts onto a specific set of pixels and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zanyi Wang , Dengyang Jiang , Liuzhuozheng Li , Sizhe Dang , Chengzu Li , Harry Yang , Guang Dai , Mengmeng Wang , Jingdong Wang

Domain Generalization (DG) seeks to develop a versatile model capable of performing effectively on unseen target domains. Notably, recent advances in pre-trained Visual Foundation Models (VFMs), such as CLIP, have demonstrated considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 De Cheng , Zhipeng Xu , Xinyang Jiang , Dongsheng Li , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Recent advancements in pre-trained vision-language models, such as CLIP, have enabled the segmentation of arbitrary concepts solely from textual inputs, a process commonly referred to as open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVS). However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Kunyang Han , Yong Liu , Jun Hao Liew , Henghui Ding , Yunchao Wei , Jiajun Liu , Yitong Wang , Yansong Tang , Yujiu Yang , Jiashi Feng , Yao Zhao

Vision Language Models (VLMs) provide rich semantic priors but are underexplored in Semi supervised Semantic Segmentation. Recent attempts to integrate VLMs to inject high level semantics overlook the semantic misalignment between visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Numair Nadeem , Saeed Anwar , Muhammad Hamza Asad , Abdul Bais

In this paper, we investigate Open-Vocabulary 3D Instance Segmentation (OV-3DIS) with free-form language instructions. Earlier works that rely on only annotated base categories for training suffer from limited generalization to unseen novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Seungjun Lee , Yuyang Zhao , Gim Hee Lee

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment target objects throughout a video based on a text description. This is challenging as it involves deep vision-language understanding, pixel-level dense prediction and spatiotemporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Tianming Liang , Kun-Yu Lin , Chaolei Tan , Jianguo Zhang , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jian-Fang Hu

In this paper, we introduce a method to tackle Domain Generalized Semantic Segmentation (DGSS) by utilizing domain-invariant semantic knowledge from text embeddings of vision-language models. We employ the text embeddings as object queries…

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