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Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models offer a compelling framework for tackling complex robotic manipulation tasks, but they are often expensive to train. In this paper, we propose a novel VLA approach that leverages the competitive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Max Argus , Jelena Bratulic , Houman Masnavi , Maxim Velikanov , Nick Heppert , Abhinav Valada , Thomas Brox

Blastomere instance segmentation is important for analyzing embryos' abnormality. To measure the accurate shapes and sizes of blastomeres, their amodal segmentation is necessary. Amodal instance segmentation aims to recover the complete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Won-Dong Jang , Donglai Wei , Xingxuan Zhang , Brian Leahy , Helen Yang , James Tompkin , Dalit Ben-Yosef , Daniel Needleman , Hanspeter Pfister

General purpose segmentation models are able to generate (semantic) segmentation masks from a variety of prompts, including visual (points, boxed, etc.) and textual (object names) ones. In particular, input images are pre-processed by an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Francesco Croce , Matthias Hein

We propose a novel semantic segmentation algorithm by learning a deconvolution network. We learn the network on top of the convolutional layers adopted from VGG 16-layer net. The deconvolution network is composed of deconvolution and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Hyeonwoo Noh , Seunghoon Hong , Bohyung Han

In this work, we aim at building a simple, direct, and fast instance segmentation framework with strong performance. We follow the principle of the SOLO method of Wang et al. "SOLO: segmenting objects by locations". Importantly, we take one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Xinlong Wang , Rufeng Zhang , Tao Kong , Lei Li , Chunhua Shen

Current autoregressive Vision Language Models (VLMs) usually rely on a large number of visual tokens to represent images, resulting in a need for more compute especially at inference time. To address this problem, we propose Mask-LLaVA, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Soumya Jahagirdar , Walid Bousselham , Anna Kukleva , Hilde Kuehne

The objective of this paper is a model that is able to discover, track and segment multiple moving objects in a video. We make four contributions: First, we introduce an object-centric segmentation model with a depth-ordered layer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Junyu Xie , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced molecular discovery, but existing multimodal molecular architectures fundamentally rely on autoregressive (AR) backbones. This strict left-to-right inductive bias is sub-optimal for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Seohyeon Shin , HanJun Choi , Jun-Hyung Park , Hong Kook Kim , Mansu Kim

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) requires segmenting the object in video referred by a natural language query. Existing methods mainly rely on sophisticated pipelines to tackle such cross-modal task, and do not explicitly model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Ping Li , Yu Zhang , Li Yuan , Xianghua Xu

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly being regarded as foundation models that can be instructed to solve diverse tasks by prompting, without task-specific training. We examine the seemingly obvious question: how to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Niccolo Avogaro , Thomas Frick , Mattia Rigotti , Andrea Bartezzaghi , Filip Janicki , Cristiano Malossi , Konrad Schindler , Roy Assaf

The recent Segment Anything Models (SAMs) have emerged as foundational visual models for general interactive segmentation. Despite demonstrating robust generalization abilities, they still suffer performance degradations in scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Yuan Yao , Qiushi Yang , Miaomiao Cui , Liefeng Bo

In computer vision, Visual Prompting (VP) and Visual Prompt Tuning (VPT) have recently emerged as lightweight and effective alternatives to full fine-tuning for adapting large-scale vision models within the "pretrain-then-finetune"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Xi Xiao , Yunbei Zhang , Lin Zhao , Yiyang Liu , Xiaoying Liao , Zheda Mai , Xingjian Li , Xiao Wang , Hao Xu , Jihun Hamm , Xue Lin , Min Xu , Qifan Wang , Tianyang Wang , Cheng Han

The aim of audio-visual segmentation (AVS) is to precisely differentiate audible objects within videos down to the pixel level. Traditional approaches often tackle this challenge by combining information from various modalities, where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Dawei Hao , Yuxin Mao , Bowen He , Xiaodong Han , Yuchao Dai , Yiran Zhong

Recent segmentation methods leveraging Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown reliable object-level segmentation and enhanced spatial perception. However, almost all previous methods predominantly rely on specialist mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Anqi Zhang , Xiaokang Ji , Guangyu Gao , Jianbo Jiao , Chi Harold Liu , Yunchao Wei

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently achieved remarkable progress in robotic perception and control, yet most existing approaches primarily rely on VLM trained using 2D images, which limits their spatial understanding and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Zhifeng Rao , Wenlong Chen , Lei Xie , Xia Hua , Dongfu Yin , Zhen Tian , F. Richard Yu

Compared to many other dense prediction tasks, e.g., semantic segmentation, it is the arbitrary number of instances that has made instance segmentation much more challenging. In order to predict a mask for each instance, mainstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Xinlong Wang , Rufeng Zhang , Chunhua Shen , Tao Kong , Lei Li

Point clouds are a key modality used for perception in autonomous vehicles, providing the means for a robust geometric understanding of the surrounding environment. However despite the sensor outputs from autonomous vehicles being naturally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Joshua Knights , Peyman Moghadam , Clinton Fookes , Sridha Sridharan

Segment Anything (SAM) provides an unprecedented foundation for human segmentation, but may struggle under occlusion, where keypoints may be partially or fully invisible. We adapt SAM 2.1 for pose-guided segmentation with minimal encoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Constantin Kolomiiets , Miroslav Purkrabek , Jiri Matas

Deep neural network-based semantic segmentation generally requires large-scale cost extensive annotations for training to obtain better performance. To avoid pixel-wise segmentation annotations which are needed for most methods, recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Longlong Jing , Yucheng Chen , Yingli Tian