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Semantic segmentation has a broad range of applications, but its real-world impact has been significantly limited by the prohibitive annotation costs necessary to enable deployment. Segmentation methods that forgo supervision can side-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Gyungin Shin , Weidi Xie , Samuel Albanie

We study fine-grained referring image segmentation via a decoupled reason-then-segment pipeline. A vision-language model (VLM) receives an image and a natural-language query, reasons about the scene, and emits structured spatial prompts: a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Sandesh Hegde , Jaison Saji Chacko , Debarshi Banerjee , Uma Mahesh

Few-shot segmentation is a task to segment objects or regions of novel classes within an image given only a few annotated examples. In the generalized setting, the task extends to segment both the base and the novel classes. The main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Steve Andreas Immanuel , Hagai Raja Sinulingga

Compositional Zero-shot Learning (CZSL) aims to recognize novel concepts composed of known knowledge without training samples. Standard CZSL either identifies visual primitives or enhances unseen composed entities, and as a result,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Xiaocheng Lu , Ziming Liu , Song Guo , Jingcai Guo , Fushuo Huo , Sikai Bai , Tao Han

Recent advances for few-shot text classification aim to wrap textual inputs with task-specific prompts to cloze questions. By processing them with a masked language model to predict the masked tokens and using a verbalizer that constructs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Tongtao Ling , Lei Chen , Yutao Lai , Hai-Lin Liu

In this paper, we propose an embarrassingly simple yet highly effective zero-shot semantic segmentation (ZS3) method, based on the pre-trained vision-language model CLIP. First, our study provides a couple of key discoveries: (i) the global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Letian Wu , Wenyao Zhang , Tengping Jiang , Wankou Yang , Xin Jin , Wenjun Zeng

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has proven to be an effective post-training strategy for enhancing reasoning in vision-language models (VLMs). Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) is a recent prominent method that encourages models to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Jiaqi Wang , Kevin Qinghong Lin , James Cheng , Mike Zheng Shou

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has revolutionized interactive segmentation through spatial prompting. While existing work primarily focuses on automating prompts in various settings, real-world annotation workflows involve iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Prithwijit Chowdhury , Mohit Prabhushankar , Ghassan AlRegib

Current image-based reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms typically operate on the whole image without performing object-level reasoning. This leads to inefficient goal sampling and ineffective reward functions. In this paper, we improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Yufei Wang , Gautham Narayan Narasimhan , Xingyu Lin , Brian Okorn , David Held

Large language models are highly sensitive to prompt wording. However, popular automatic prompt search methods, including InstructZero, often degrade under distribution shift and adversarial evaluation because they optimize expected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Yangyang Li

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a deep neural network foundational model designed to perform instance segmentation which has gained significant popularity given its zero-shot segmentation ability. SAM operates by generating masks based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Yona Falinie A. Gaus , Neelanjan Bhowmik , Brian K. S. Isaac-Medina , Toby P. Breckon

Event-Level Video Question Answering (EVQA) requires complex reasoning across video events to obtain the visual information needed to provide optimal answers. However, despite significant progress in model performance, few studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chenyang Lyu , Tianbo Ji , Yvette Graham , Jennifer Foster

Traditional approaches to off-road autonomy rely on separate models for terrain classification, height estimation, and quantifying slip or slope conditions. Utilizing several models requires training each component separately, having task…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Abdelmoamen Nasser , Yousef Baba'a , Murad Mebrahtu , Nadya Abdel Madjid , Jorge Dias , Majid Khonji

Open-set image segmentation poses a significant challenge because existing methods often demand extensive training or fine-tuning and generally struggle to segment unified objects consistently across diverse text reference expressions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Zhihua Liu , Amrutha Saseendran , Lei Tong , Xilin He , Fariba Yousefi , Nikolay Burlutskiy , Dino Oglic , Tom Diethe , Philip Teare , Huiyu Zhou , Chen Jin

Instruction-driven image editing with unified multimodal generative models has advanced rapidly, yet their underlying visual reasoning remains limited, leading to suboptimal performance on reasoning-centric edits. Reinforcement learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Hengjia Li , Liming Jiang , Qing Yan , Yizhi Song , Hao Kang , Zichuan Liu , Xin Lu , Boxi Wu , Deng Cai

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) aims to segment objects from arbitrary text categories without requiring densely annotated datasets. Although contrastive learning based models enable zero-shot segmentation, they often lose fine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Huy Che , Vinh-Tiep Nguyen

We present an open-vocabulary and zero-shot method for arbitrary referring expression segmentation (RES), targeting input expressions that are more general than what prior works were designed to handle. Specifically, our inputs encompass…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Ruiqi Wang , Hao Zhang

Zero-shot event-relational reasoning is an important task in natural language processing, and existing methods jointly learn a variety of event-relational prefixes and inference-form prefixes to achieve such tasks. However, training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Jingyao Tang , Lishuang Li , Liteng Mi , Haiming Wu , Hongbin Lu

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) serves as a fundamental model for semantic segmentation and demonstrates remarkable generalization capabilities across a wide range of downstream scenarios. In this empirical study, we examine SAM's…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 An Wang , Mobarakol Islam , Mengya Xu , Yang Zhang , Hongliang Ren

Thanks to the impressive progress of large-scale vision-language pretraining, recent recognition models can classify arbitrary objects in a zero-shot and open-set manner, with a surprisingly high accuracy. However, translating this success…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Xinyu Liu , Beiwen Tian , Zhen Wang , Rui Wang , Kehua Sheng , Bo Zhang , Hao Zhao , Guyue Zhou
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