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Recently, a few open-vocabulary methods have been proposed by employing a unified architecture to tackle generic segmentation and detection tasks. However, their performance still lags behind the task-specific models due to the conflict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Shuai Li , Minghan Li , Pengfei Wang , Lei Zhang

Open-vocabulary segmentation (OVS) extends the zero-shot recognition capabilities of vision-language models (VLMs) to pixel-level prediction, enabling segmentation of arbitrary categories specified by text prompts. Despite recent progress,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Tilemachos Aravanis , Vladan Stojnić , Bill Psomas , Nikos Komodakis , Giorgos Tolias

In this paper, we propose ReSeg-CLIP, a new training-free Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation method for remote sensing data. To compensate for the problems of vision language models, such as CLIP in semantic segmentation caused by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Mohammadreza Heidarianbaei , Mareike Dorozynski , Hubert Kanyamahanga , Max Mehltretter , Franz Rottensteiner

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels is a challenging task. Mainstream approaches follow a multi-stage framework and suffer from high training costs. In this paper, we explore the potential of Contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Yuqi Lin , Minghao Chen , Wenxiao Wang , Boxi Wu , Ke Li , Binbin Lin , Haifeng Liu , Xiaofei He

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has made a remarkable breakthrough in open-vocabulary zero-shot image recognition. Many recent studies leverage the pre-trained CLIP models for image-level classification and manipulation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Chong Zhou , Chen Change Loy , Bo Dai

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

Recently, open-vocabulary learning has emerged to accomplish segmentation for arbitrary categories of text-based descriptions, which popularizes the segmentation system to more general-purpose application scenarios. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Jie Qin , Jie Wu , Pengxiang Yan , Ming Li , Ren Yuxi , Xuefeng Xiao , Yitong Wang , Rui Wang , Shilei Wen , Xin Pan , Xingang Wang

We design an open-vocabulary image segmentation model to organize an image into meaningful regions indicated by arbitrary texts. Recent works (CLIP and ALIGN), despite attaining impressive open-vocabulary classification accuracy with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Golnaz Ghiasi , Xiuye Gu , Yin Cui , Tsung-Yi Lin

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) is fundamentally hampered by the coarse, image-level representations of CLIP, which lack precise pixel-level details. Existing training-free methods attempt to resolve this by either importing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Ziquan Liu , Zhewei Zhu , Xuyang Shi

Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) aims at segmenting images from free-form textual concepts without predefined training classes. While existing vision-language models such as CLIP can generate segmentation masks by leveraging coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Luca Barsellotti , Lorenzo Bianchi , Nicola Messina , Fabio Carrara , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Fabrizio Falchi , Rita Cucchiara

Existing semantic segmentation approaches are often limited by costly pixel-wise annotations and predefined classes. In this work, we present CLIP-S$^4$ that leverages self-supervised pixel representation learning and vision-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Wenbin He , Suphanut Jamonnak , Liang Gou , Liu Ren

The emergence of CLIP has opened the way for open-world image perception. The zero-shot classification capabilities of the model are impressive but are harder to use for dense tasks such as image segmentation. Several methods have proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Monika Wysoczańska , Michaël Ramamonjisoa , Tomasz Trzciński , Oriane Siméoni

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 semantic segmentation models aim to accurately assign a semantic label to each pixel in an image from a set of arbitrary open-vocabulary texts. In order to learn such pixel-level alignment, current approaches typically rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Zihang Lai

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation requires assigning pixel-level semantic labels while supporting an open and unrestricted set of categories. Training-free CLIP-based approaches preserve strong zero-shot generalization but typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Mohamad Zamini , Diksha Shukla

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) aims to detect objects beyond the training annotations, where detectors are usually aligned to a pre-trained vision-language model, eg, CLIP, to inherit its generalizable recognition ability so that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Shenghao Fu , Junkai Yan , Qize Yang , Xihan Wei , Xiaohua Xie , Wei-Shi Zheng

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

Open-vocabulary segmentation is the task of segmenting anything that can be named in an image. Recently, large-scale vision-language modelling has led to significant advances in open-vocabulary segmentation, but at the cost of gargantuan…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Laurynas Karazija , Iro Laina , Andrea Vedaldi , Christian Rupprecht

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims at segmenting arbitrary categories expressed in textual form. Previous works have trained over large amounts of image-caption pairs to enforce pixel-level multimodal alignments. However, captions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Luca Barsellotti , Roberto Amoroso , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

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