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Reasoning Segmentation (RS) is a multimodal vision-text task that requires segmenting objects based on implicit text queries, demanding both precise visual perception and vision-text reasoning capabilities. Current RS approaches rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yizhen Li , Dell Zhang , Xuelong Li , Yiqing Shen

This paper focuses on a key challenge in visual emotion understanding: given an art image, the model pinpoints pixel regions that trigger a specific human emotion, and generates linguistic explanations for it. Despite advances in general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Jing Zhang , Dan Guo , Zhangbin Li , Meng Wang

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims to assign pixel-level labels to images across an unlimited range of classes. Traditional methods address this by sequentially connecting a powerful mask proposal generator, such as the Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Minhyeok Lee , Suhwan Cho , Jungho Lee , Sunghun Yang , Heeseung Choi , Ig-Jae Kim , Sangyoun Lee

Open-vocabulary remote sensing image segmentation (OVRSIS) remains underexplored due to fragmented datasets, limited training diversity, and the lack of evaluation benchmarks that reflect realistic geospatial application demands. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Bingyu Li , Tao Huo , Haocheng Dong , Da Zhang , Zhiyuan Zhao , Junyu Gao , Xuelong Li

We present a novel multi-view training framework and CNN architecture for combining information from multiple overlapping satellite images and noisy training labels derived from OpenStreetMap (OSM) to semantically label buildings and roads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Bharath Comandur , Avinash C. Kak

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

Many multimodal tasks, such as image captioning and visual question answering, require vision-language models (VLMs) to associate objects with their properties and spatial relations. Yet it remains unclear where and how such associations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Kelly Cui , Nikhil Prakash , Ayush Raina , David Bau , Antonio Torralba , Tamar Rott Shaham

Human-annotated attributes serve as powerful semantic embeddings in zero-shot learning. However, their annotation process is labor-intensive and needs expert supervision. Current unsupervised semantic embeddings, i.e., word embeddings,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Wenjia Xu , Yongqin Xian , Jiuniu Wang , Bernt Schiele , Zeynep Akata

Recent generalist vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive reasoning capabilities across diverse multimodal tasks. However, these models still struggle with fine-grained object-level understanding and grounding. In terms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Timothy Ossowski , Junjie Hu

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

Deep Learning (DL) techniques have achieved remarkable successes in recent years. However, their ability to generalize and execute reasoning tasks remains a challenge. A potential solution to this issue is Neuro-Symbolic Integration (NeSy),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Alessandro Daniele , Tommaso Campari , Sagar Malhotra , Luciano Serafini

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment an object of interest throughout a video based on a language description. The prominent challenge lies in aligning static text with dynamic visual content, particularly when objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Bingrui Zhao , Lin Yuanbo Wu , Xiangtian Fan , Deyin Liu , Lu Zhang , Ruyi He , Jialie Shen , Ximing Li

Vanilla pixel-level classifiers for semantic segmentation are based on a certain paradigm, involving the inner product of fixed prototypes obtained from the training set and pixel features in the test image. This approach, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Xiaowen Ma , Zhenliang Ni , Xinghao Chen

Current techniques in Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM) estimate camera displacement by comparing image features of consecutive scenes. These algorithms depend on scene continuity, hence requires frequent camera inputs.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Mingyang Li , Yue Ma , Qinru Qiu

We propose the Neuro-Symbolic Concept Learner (NS-CL), a model that learns visual concepts, words, and semantic parsing of sentences without explicit supervision on any of them; instead, our model learns by simply looking at images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Jiayuan Mao , Chuang Gan , Pushmeet Kohli , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Jiajun Wu

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong general-purpose reasoning capabilities, yet they frequently hallucinate when used as world models (WMs), where strict compliance with deterministic transition rules--particularly in corner…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Hongyu Zhao , Siyu Zhou , Haolin Yang , Zengyi Qin , Tianyi Zhou

Spatial reasoning based on natural language expressions is essential for everyday human tasks. This reasoning ability is also crucial for machines to interact with their environment in a human-like manner. However, recent research shows…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Tanawan Premsri , Parisa Kordjamshidi

The estimation of implicit cross-frame correspondences and the high computational cost have long been major challenges in video semantic segmentation (VSS) for driving scenes. Prior works utilize keyframes, feature propagation, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Diandian Guo , Deng-Ping Fan , Tongyu Lu , Christos Sakaridis , Luc Van Gool

As a common method in the field of computer vision, spatial attention mechanism has been widely used in semantic segmentation of remote sensing images due to its outstanding long-range dependency modeling capability. However, remote sensing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-24 Xiaowen Ma , Rongrong Lian , Zhenkai Wu , Renxiang Guan , Tingfeng Hong , Mengjiao Zhao , Mengting Ma , Jiangtao Nie , Zhenhong Du , Siyang Song , Wei Zhang

We introduce a new method for integrating neural networks with logic programming in Neural-Symbolic AI (NeSy), aimed at learning with distant supervision, in which direct labels are unavailable. Unlike prior methods, our approach does not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Akihiro Takemura , Katsumi Inoue