English
Related papers

Related papers: OVI-MAP:Open-Vocabulary Instance-Semantic Mapping

200 papers

We present Ov3R, a novel framework for open-vocabulary semantic 3D reconstruction from RGB video streams, designed to advance Spatial AI. The system features two key components: CLIP3R, a CLIP-informed 3D reconstruction module that predicts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Ziren Gong , Xiaohan Li , Fabio Tosi , Jiawei Han , Stefano Mattoccia , Jianfei Cai , Matteo Poggi

We present a mapping system capable of constructing detailed instance-level semantic models of room-sized indoor environments by means of an RGB-D camera. In this work, we integrate deep-learning-based instance segmentation and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Dinh-Cuong Hoang , Todor Stoyanov , Achim J. Lilienthal

We describe an approach to predict open-vocabulary 3D semantic voxel occupancy map from input 2D images with the objective of enabling 3D grounding, segmentation and retrieval of free-form language queries. This is a challenging problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Antonin Vobecky , Oriane Siméoni , David Hurych , Spyros Gidaris , Andrei Bursuc , Patrick Pérez , Josef Sivic

Locating and retrieving objects from scene-level point clouds is a challenging problem with broad applications in robotics and augmented reality. This task is commonly formulated as open-vocabulary 3D instance segmentation. Although recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Khanh Nguyen , Dasith de Silva Edirimuni , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Ajmal Mian

Panoptic reconstruction is a challenging task in 3D scene understanding. However, most existing methods heavily rely on pre-trained semantic segmentation models and known 3D object bounding boxes for 3D panoptic segmentation, which is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Xuan Yu , Yili Liu , Chenrui Han , Sitong Mao , Shunbo Zhou , Rong Xiong , Yiyi Liao , Yue Wang

Open-Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation (OVMM) is a crucial capability for autonomous robots, especially when faced with the challenges posed by unknown and dynamic environments. This task requires robots to explore and build a semantic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Dicong Qiu , Wenzong Ma , Zhenfu Pan , Hui Xiong , Junwei Liang

We introduce an online 2D-to-3D semantic instance mapping algorithm aimed at generating comprehensive, accurate, and efficient semantic 3D maps suitable for autonomous agents in unstructured environments. The proposed approach is based on a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yang Miao , Iro Armeni , Marc Pollefeys , Daniel Barath

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

We introduce DualMap, an online open-vocabulary mapping system that enables robots to understand and navigate dynamically changing environments through natural language queries. Designed for efficient semantic mapping and adaptability to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jiajun Jiang , Yiming Zhu , Zirui Wu , Jie Song

Occupancy prediction tasks focus on the inference of both geometry and semantic labels for each voxel, which is an important perception mission. However, it is still a semantic segmentation task without distinguishing various instances.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Zichao Dong , Hang Ji , Weikun Zhang , Xufeng Huang , Junbo Chen

3D scene understanding is fundamental for embodied AI and robotics, supporting reliable perception for interaction and navigation. Recent approaches achieve zero-shot, open-vocabulary 3D semantic mapping by assigning embedding vectors to 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mohamad Amin Mirzaei , Pantea Amoie , Ali Ekhterachian , Matin Mirzababaei , Babak Khalaj

Vision-language models (VLMs) excel in visual understanding but often lack reliable grounding capabilities and actionable inference rates. Integrating them with open-vocabulary object detection (OVD), instance segmentation, and tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Bastian Pätzold , Jan Nogga , Sven Behnke

Open-vocabulary 3D object detection for autonomous driving aims to detect novel objects beyond the predefined training label sets in point cloud scenes. Existing approaches achieve this by connecting traditional 3D object detectors with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Adrian Chow , Evelien Riddell , Yimu Wang , Sean Sedwards , Krzysztof Czarnecki

The capability to efficiently search for objects in complex environments is fundamental for many real-world robot applications. Recent advances in open-vocabulary vision models have resulted in semantically-informed object navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Finn Lukas Busch , Timon Homberger , Jesús Ortega-Peimbert , Quantao Yang , Olov Andersson

We present ROVI, a high-quality synthetic dataset for instance-grounded text-to-image generation, created by labeling 1M curated web images. Our key innovation is a strategy called re-captioning, focusing on the pre-detection stage, where a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Cihang Peng , Qiming Hou , Zhong Ren , Kun Zhou

Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) methods offer promising capabilities in detecting unseen object categories, but the category must be known and needs to be provided by a human, either via a text prompt or pre-labeled datasets, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Weijie Wei , Osman Ülger , Fatemeh Karimi Nejadasl , Theo Gevers , Martin R. Oswald

Mapping and scene representation are fundamental to reliable planning and navigation in mobile robots. While purely geometric maps using voxel grids allow for general navigation, obtaining up-to-date spatial and semantically rich…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Tim Steinke , Martin Büchner , Niclas Vödisch , Abhinav Valada

Diffusion models represent a new paradigm in text-to-image generation. Beyond generating high-quality images from text prompts, models such as Stable Diffusion have been successfully extended to the joint generation of semantic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Pablo Marcos-Manchón , Roberto Alcover-Couso , Juan C. SanMiguel , Jose M. Martínez

Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation (OVSS) assigns pixel-level labels from an open set of text-defined categories, demanding reliable generalization to unseen classes at inference. Although modern vision-language models (VLMs) support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Saikat Dutta , Biplab Banerjee , Hamid Rezatofighi

Open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding is indispensable for embodied agents. Recent works leverage pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) for object segmentation and project them to point clouds to build 3D maps. Despite progress, a point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Zhigang Wang , Yifei Su , Chenhui Li , Dong Wang , Yan Huang , Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li