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Semantic segmentation across visual modalities such as 3D point clouds and panoramic images remains a challenging task, primarily due to the scarcity of annotated data and the limited adaptability of fixed-label models. In this paper, we…

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Open-vocabulary object detection in remote sensing commonly relies on text-only prompting to specify target categories, implicitly assuming that inference-time category queries can be reliably grounded through pretraining-induced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Shuai Yang , Ziyue Huang , Jiaxin Chen , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation enables models to identify novel object categories beyond their training data. While this flexibility represents a significant advancement, current approaches still rely on manually specified class…

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Semantic segmentation benefits robotics related applications especially autonomous driving. Most of the research on semantic segmentation is only on increasing the accuracy of segmentation models with little attention to computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Mennatullah Siam , Mostafa Gamal , Moemen Abdel-Razek , Senthil Yogamani , Martin Jagersand

Real-time semantic segmentation of remote sensing imagery is a challenging task that requires a trade-off between effectiveness and efficiency. It has many applications including tracking forest fires, detecting changes in land use and land…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Clifford Broni-Bediako , Junshi Xia , Naoto Yokoya

Open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding is crucial for robotics applications, such as natural language-driven manipulation, human-robot interaction, and autonomous navigation. Existing methods for querying 3D Gaussian Splatting often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Hairong Yin , Huangying Zhan , Yi Xu , Raymond A. Yeh

Recent advances in MLLMs are reframing segmentation from fixed-category prediction to instruction-grounded localization. While reasoning based segmentation has progressed rapidly in natural scenes, remote sensing lacks a generalizable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Lifan Jiang , Yuhang Pei , oxi Wu , Yan Zhao , Tianrun Wu , Shulong Yu , Lihui Zhang , Deng Cai

Referring expression understanding in remote sensing poses unique challenges, as it requires reasoning over complex object-context relationships. While supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on multimodal large language models achieves strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Zilun Zhang , Zian Guan , Tiancheng Zhao , Haozhan Shen , Tianyu Li , Yuxiang Cai , Zhonggen Su , Zhaojun Liu , Jianwei Yin , Xiang Li

We present Seg-TTO, a novel framework for zero-shot, open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS), designed to excel in specialized domain tasks. While current open-vocabulary approaches show impressive performance on standard segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ulindu De Silva , Didula Samaraweera , Sasini Wanigathunga , Kavindu Kariyawasam , Kanchana Ranasinghe , Muzammal Naseer , Ranga Rodrigo

This study investigates the spatial reasoning capabilities of vision-language models (VLMs) through Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting and reinforcement learning. We begin by evaluating the impact of different prompting strategies and find…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Binbin Ji , Siddharth Agrawal , Qiance Tang , Yvonne Wu

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…

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Recent advances in point cloud perception have demonstrated remarkable progress in scene understanding through vision-language alignment leveraging large language models (LLMs). However, existing methods may still encounter challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zhenhua Ning , Zhuotao Tian , Shaoshuai Shi , Guangming Lu , Daojing He , Wenjie Pei , Li Jiang

In human reading and communication, individuals tend to engage in geospatial reasoning, which involves recognizing geographic entities and making informed inferences about their interrelationships. To mimic such cognitive process, current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Yibo Yan , Joey Lee

Existing methods for farmland remote sensing image (FRSI) segmentation generally follow a static segmentation paradigm, where analysis relies solely on the limited information contained within a single input patch. Consequently, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Haiyang Wu , Weiliang Mu , Jipeng Zhang , Zhong Dandan , Zhuofei Du , Haifeng Li , Tao Chao

Our goal is to develop stable, accurate, and robust semantic scene understanding methods for wide-area scene perception and understanding, especially in challenging outdoor environments. To achieve this, we are exploring and evaluating a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Jiesi Hu , Ganning Zhao , Suya You , C. C. Jay Kuo

The application of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in remote sensing (RS) has demonstrated significant potential in traditional tasks such as scene classification, object detection, and image captioning. However, current models, which excel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zilun Zhang , Haozhan Shen , Tiancheng Zhao , Bin Chen , Zian Guan , Yuhao Wang , Xu Jia , Yuxiang Cai , Yongheng Shang , Jianwei Yin

Training-free open-vocabulary remote sensing segmentation (OVRSS), empowered by vision-language models, has emerged as a promising paradigm for achieving category-agnostic semantic understanding in remote sensing imagery. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Wenyang Chen , Zhanxuan Hu , Yaping Zhang , Hailong Ning , Yonghang Tai

Video reasoning segmentation (VRS) endeavors to delineate referred objects in videos guided by implicit instructions that encapsulate human intent and temporal logic. Previous approaches leverage large vision language models (LVLMs) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Sitong Gong , Lu Zhang , Yunzhi Zhuge , Xu Jia , Pingping Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Existing open-vocabulary 3D semantic segmentation methods typically supervise 3D segmentation models by merging text-aligned features (e.g., CLIP) extracted from multi-view images onto 3D points. However, such approaches treat multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shiqi Zhang , Sha Zhang , Jiajun Deng , Yedong Shen , Mingxiao MA , Yanyong Zhang

Predicting the future is an important aspect for decision-making in robotics or autonomous driving systems, which heavily rely upon visual scene understanding. While prior work attempts to predict future video pixels, anticipate activities…

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