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Generative vision-language models (VLMs) exhibit strong high-level image understanding but lack spatially dense alignment between vision and language modalities, as our findings indicate. Orthogonal to advancements in generative VLMs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Tim Lebailly , Vijay Veerabadran , Satwik Kottur , Karl Ridgeway , Michael Louis Iuzzolino

Semantic occupancy prediction aims to infer dense geometry and semantics of surroundings for an autonomous agent to operate safely in the 3D environment. Existing occupancy prediction methods are almost entirely trained on human-annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Zhiyu Tan , Zichao Dong , Cheng Zhang , Weikun Zhang , Hang Ji , Hao Li

Open-Vocabulary Detection (OVD) is the task of detecting all interesting objects in a given scene without predefined object classes. Extensive work has been done to deal with the OVD for 2D RGB images, but the exploration of 3D OVD is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Xingyu Peng , Yan Bai , Chen Gao , Lirong Yang , Fei Xia , Beipeng Mu , Xiaofei Wang , Si Liu

Despite recent advances in Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation (OVSS), existing training-free methods face several limitations: use of computationally expensive affinity refinement strategies, ineffective fusion of transformer attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Kunal Mahatha , Jose Dolz , Christian Desrosiers

Semantic scene completion, also known as semantic occupancy prediction, can provide dense geometric and semantic information for autonomous vehicles, which attracts the increasing attention of both academia and industry. Unfortunately,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Song Wang , Jiawei Yu , Wentong Li , Wenyu Liu , Xiaolu Liu , Junbo Chen , Jianke Zhu

In this paper, we investigate Open-Vocabulary 3D Instance Segmentation (OV-3DIS) with free-form language instructions. Earlier works that rely on only annotated base categories for training suffer from limited generalization to unseen novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Seungjun Lee , Yuyang Zhao , Gim Hee Lee

Unlike closed-vocabulary 3D instance segmentation that is often trained end-to-end, open-vocabulary 3D instance segmentation (OV-3DIS) often leverages vision-language models (VLMs) to generate 3D instance proposals and classify them. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Sanghun Jung , Jingjing Zheng , Ke Zhang , Nan Qiao , Albert Y. C. Chen , Lu Xia , Chi Liu , Yuyin Sun , Xiao Zeng , Hsiang-Wei Huang , Byron Boots , Min Sun , Cheng-Hao Kuo

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) enables models to detect any object category, including unseen ones. Benefiting from large-scale pre-training, existing OVOD methods achieve strong detection performance on general scenarios (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Weihao Cao , Runqi Wang , Xiaoyue Duan , Jinchao Zhang , Ang Yang , Liping Jing

This paper studies the problem of weakly open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (WOVSS), which learns to segment objects of arbitrary classes using mere image-text pairs. Existing works turn to enhance the vanilla vision transformer by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Fei Zhang , Tianfei Zhou , Boyang Li , Hao He , Chaofan Ma , Tianjiao Zhang , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Incremental open-vocabulary 3D instance-semantic mapping is essential for autonomous agents operating in complex everyday environments. However, it remains challenging due to the need for robust instance segmentation, real-time processing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Zilong Deng , Federico Tombari , Marc Pollefeys , Johanna Wald , Daniel Barath

In the field of visual scene understanding, deep neural networks have made impressive advancements in various core tasks like segmentation, tracking, and detection. However, most approaches operate on the close-set assumption, meaning that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Jianzong Wu , Xiangtai Li , Shilin Xu , Haobo Yuan , Henghui Ding , Yibo Yang , Xia Li , Jiangning Zhang , Yunhai Tong , Xudong Jiang , Bernard Ghanem , Dacheng Tao

Open-vocabulary semantic mapping enables robots to spatially ground previously unseen concepts without requiring predefined class sets. Current training-free methods commonly rely on multi-view fusion of semantic embeddings into a 3D map,…

Accurate segmentation of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images is crucial for diagnosing and monitoring retinal diseases. However, the labor-intensive nature of pixel-level annotation limits the scalability of supervised learning for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jiaqi Yang , Nitish Mehta , Xiaoling Hu , Chao Chen , Chia-Ling Tsai

In autonomous driving and robotics, ensuring road safety and reliable decision-making critically depends on out-of-distribution (OOD) segmentation. While numerous methods have been proposed to detect anomalous objects on the road,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Seungheon Song , Jaekoo Lee

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation is a challenging task, which requires the model to output semantic masks of an image beyond a close-set vocabulary. Although many efforts have been made to utilize powerful CLIP models to accomplish…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Xiangheng Shan , Dongyue Wu , Guilin Zhu , Yuanjie Shao , Nong Sang , Changxin Gao

Temporal Action Segmentation (TAS) requires dividing videos into action segments, yet the vast space of activities and alternative breakdowns makes collecting comprehensive datasets infeasible. Existing methods remain limited to closed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Asim Unmesh , Kaki Ramesh , Mayank Patel , Rahul Jain , Karthik Ramani

Open-vocabulary scene understanding is crucial for robotic applications, enabling robots to comprehend complex 3D environmental contexts and supporting various downstream tasks such as navigation and manipulation. However, existing methods…

Semantic segmentation is the task of assigning a label to each pixel in the image.In recent years, deep convolutional neural networks have been driving advances in multiple tasks related to cognition. Although, DCNNs have resulted in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Aditya Ganeshan

High-resolution remote sensing images contain densely distributed objects with pronounced scale variations and complex boundaries, which impose higher demands on both the geometric localization and semantic prediction capabilities of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jianzheng Wang , Huan Ni

Semantic understanding and localization are fundamental enablers of robot autonomy that have for the most part been tackled as disjoint problems. While deep learning has enabled recent breakthroughs across a wide spectrum of scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Noha Radwan , Abhinav Valada , Wolfram Burgard