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Semantic segmentation of point clouds, aiming to assign each point a semantic category, is critical to 3D scene understanding.Despite of significant advances in recent years, most of existing methods still suffer from either the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Chen Chen , Yisen Wang , Honghua Chen , Xuefeng Yan , Dayong Ren , Yanwen Guo , Haoran Xie , Fu Lee Wang , Mingqiang Wei

Open-vocabulary 3D semantic segmentation aims to segment arbitrary categories beyond the training set. Existing methods predominantly rely on distilling knowledge from 2D open-vocabulary models. However, aligning 3D features to the 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Xujing Tao , Chuxin Wang , Yubo Ai , Zhixin Cheng , Zhuoyuan Li , Liangsheng Liu , Yujia Chen , Xinjun Li , Qiao Li , Wenfei Yang , Tianzhu Zhang

Video Reasoning Segmentation (VRS) aims to segment target objects in videos based on implicit instructions that convey human intent and temporal logic. Existing MLLM-based methods predict masks with a [SEG] token after selecting frames via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Junwei Wen , Deshui Miao , Guangming Lu , Xin Li , Wenjie Pei

The current remote sensing image analysis task is increasingly evolving from traditional object recognition to complex intelligence reasoning, which places higher requirements on the model's reasoning ability and the flexibility of tool…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Chujie Wang , Zhiyuan Luo , Ruiqi Liu , Can Ran , Shenghua Fan , Xi Chen , Chu He

Image segmentation beyond predefined categories is a key challenge in remote sensing, where novel and unseen classes often emerge during inference. Open-vocabulary image Segmentation addresses these generalization issues in traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Saikat Dutta , Akhil Vasim , Siddhant Gole , Hamid Rezatofighi , Biplab Banerjee

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment the object referred to by the query sentence throughout the entire video. Most existing methods require end-to-end training with dense mask annotations, which could be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Ci-Siang Lin , I-Jieh Liu , Min-Hung Chen , Chien-Yi Wang , Sifei Liu , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

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

Change detection is a fundamental task in remote sensing, aiming to quantify the impacts of human activities and ecological dynamics on land-cover changes. Existing change detection methods are limited to predefined classes in training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 You Su , Yonghong Song , Jingqi Chen , Zehan Wen

Open-vocabulary segmentation aims to achieve segmentation of arbitrary categories given unlimited text inputs as guidance. To achieve this, recent works have focused on developing various technical routes to exploit the potential of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yong Liu , SongLi Wu , Sule Bai , Jiahao Wang , Yitong Wang , Yansong Tang

Domain Generalization in Semantic Segmentation (DG-SS) aims to enable segmentation models to perform robustly in unseen environments. However, conventional DG-SS methods are restricted to a fixed set of known categories, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Dong Zhao , Qi Zang , Nan Pu , Wenjing Li , Nicu Sebe , Zhun Zhong

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing images plays a vital role in a wide range of Earth Observation applications, such as land use land cover mapping, environment monitoring, and sustainable development. Driven by rapid developments in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Libo Wang , Sijun Dong , Ying Chen , Xiaoliang Meng , Shenghui Fang , Songlin Fei

Remote sensing images are known of having complex backgrounds, high intra-class variance and large variation of scales, which bring challenge to semantic segmentation. We present LoG-CAN, a multi-scale semantic segmentation network with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Xiaowen Ma , Mengting Ma , Chenlu Hu , Zhiyuan Song , Ziyan Zhao , Tian Feng , Wei Zhang

Remote sensing imagery has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its instrumental role in global environmental monitoring, land usage monitoring, and more. As image databases grow each year, performing automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jielu Zhang , Zhongliang Zhou , Gengchen Mai , Mengxuan Hu , Zihan Guan , Sheng Li , Lan Mu

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have undergone rapid development in advancing geospatial scene understanding. Recent studies have sought to enhance the reasoning capabilities of remote sensing MLLMs, typically through cold-start…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Di Wang , Shunyu Liu , Wentao Jiang , Fengxiang Wang , Yi Liu , Xiaolei Qin , Zhiming Luo , Chaoyang Zhou , Haonan Guo , Jing Zhang , Bo Du , Dacheng Tao , Liangpei Zhang

As hubs of human activity, urban surfaces consist of a wealth of semantic entities. Segmenting these various entities from satellite imagery is crucial for a range of downstream applications. Current advanced segmentation models can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yu Wang , Yi Wang , Rui Dai , Yujie Wang , Kaikui Liu , Xiangxiang Chu , Yansheng Li

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have significantly advanced remote sensing interpretation, enabling them to perform complex, step-by-step reasoning remains highly challenging. Recent efforts to introduce Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Lang Sun , Ronghao Fu , Zhuoran Duan , Haoran Liu , Xueyan Liu , Bo Yang

Remote Sensing Visual Grounding (RSVG) aims to localize target objects in large-scale aerial imagery based on natural language descriptions. Owing to the vast spatial scale and high semantic ambiguity of remote sensing scenes, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Shiqi Huang , Shuting He , Bihan Wen

Remote sensing imagery presents vast, inherently unstructured spatial data, necessitating sophisticated reasoning to interpret complex user intents and contextual relationships beyond simple recognition tasks. In this paper, we aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Liang Yao , Fan Liu , Hongbo Lu , Chuanyi Zhang , Rui Min , Shengxiang Xu , Shimin Di , Pai Peng

Open-vocabulary 3D segmentation is a fundamental yet challenging task, requiring a mutual understanding of both segmentation and language. However, existing Gaussian-splatting-based methods rely either on a single 3D language field, leading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Runsong Zhu , Ka-Hei Hui , Zhengzhe Liu , Qianyi Wu , Weiliang Tang , Shi Qiu , Pheng-Ann Heng , Chi-Wing Fu

Remote sensing image segmentation faces persistent challenges in distinguishing morphologically similar categories and adapting to diverse scene variations. While existing methods rely on implicit representation learning paradigms, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xuechao Zou , Yue Li , Shun Zhang , Kai Li , Shiying Wang , Pin Tao , Junliang Xing , Congyan Lang