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The remote sensing (RS) domain suffers from a lack of densely labeled datasets, which are costly to obtain. Thus, models that can segment RS imagery well without supervised fine-tuning are valuable, but existing solutions fall behind…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Ryan Faulkenberry , Saurabh Prasad

Semantic segmentation in videos has been a focal point of recent research. However, existing models encounter challenges when faced with unfamiliar categories. To address this, we introduce the Open Vocabulary Video Semantic Segmentation…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Xinhao Li , Yun Liu , Guolei Sun , Min Wu , Le Zhang , Ce Zhu

Training-free open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVS) aims to segment images given a set of arbitrary textual categories without costly model fine-tuning. Existing solutions often explore attention mechanisms of pre-trained models, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Xiwei Xuan , Ziquan Deng , Kwan-Liu Ma

Open-world referring segmentation requires grounding unconstrained language expressions to precise pixel-level regions. Existing multimodal large language models (MLLMs) exhibit strong open-world visual grounding, but their outputs remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yuan Yao , Qiushi Yang , Humen Zhong , Jiangning Wei , Yifang Men , Shuai Bai , Miaomiao Cui , Zhibo Yang

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation has become an important direction in remote sensing, as it enables recognition beyond predefined land-cover categories. However, existing methods mainly depend on passive visual-text matching and often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chufeng Zhou , Jian Wang , Xinyuan Liu , Xiaokang Zhang

Open-Vocabulary Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) is attracting increasing attention due to its ability to segment and track arbitrary objects. However, the recent Open-Vocabulary VIS attempts obtained unsatisfactory results, especially in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Hao Fang , Peng Wu , Yawei Li , Xinxin Zhang , Xiankai Lu

Volumetric medical segmentation is a critical component of 3D medical image analysis that delineates different semantic regions. Deep neural networks have significantly improved volumetric medical segmentation, but they generally require…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-18 Hanan Gani , Muzammal Naseer , Fahad Khan , Salman Khan

Semantic segmentation requires methods capable of learning high-level features while dealing with large volume of data. Towards such goal, Convolutional Networks can learn specific and adaptable features based on the data. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Keiller Nogueira , Mauro Dalla Mura , Jocelyn Chanussot , William R. Schwartz , Jefersson A. dos Santos

From image-text pairs, large-scale vision-language models (VLMs) learn to implicitly associate image regions with words, which prove effective for tasks like visual question answering. However, leveraging the learned association for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jiayun Luo , Siddhesh Khandelwal , Leonid Sigal , Boyang Li

Large Vision and Language Models (LVLMs) have shown strong performance across various vision-language tasks in natural image domains. However, their application to remote sensing (RS) remains underexplored due to significant domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Sungjune Park , Yeongyun Kim , Se Yeon Kim , Yong Man Ro

We introduce a method to train vision-language models for remote-sensing images without using any textual annotations. Our key insight is to use co-located internet imagery taken on the ground as an intermediary for connecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Utkarsh Mall , Cheng Perng Phoo , Meilin Kelsey Liu , Carl Vondrick , Bharath Hariharan , Kavita Bala

Semantic segmentation has made significant strides in pixel-level image understanding, yet it remains limited in capturing contextual and semantic relationships between objects. Current models, such as CNN and Transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Ben Rahman

Confidence scores of automatic speech recognition (ASR) outputs are often inadequately communicated, preventing its seamless integration into analytical workflows. In this paper, we introduce ConFides, a visual analytic system developed in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Sunwoo Ha , Chaehun Lim , R. Jordan Crouser , Alvitta Ottley

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

Recent advances in image understanding have enabled methods that leverage large language models for multimodal reasoning in remote sensing. However, existing approaches still struggle to steer models to the user-relevant regions when only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Xu Zhang , Jiabin Fang , Zhuoming Ding , Jin Yuan , Xuan Liu , Qianjun Zhang , Zhiyong Li

Open-vocabulary segmentation is the task of segmenting anything that can be named in an image. Recently, large-scale vision-language modelling has led to significant advances in open-vocabulary segmentation, but at the cost of gargantuan…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Laurynas Karazija , Iro Laina , Andrea Vedaldi , Christian Rupprecht

Semantic segmentation of multi-modal remote sensing imagery plays a pivotal role in land use/land cover (LULC) mapping, environmental monitoring, and precision earth observation. Current multi-modal approaches mainly focus on integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jinkun Dai , Yuanxin Ye , Peng Tang , Tengfeng Tang , Xianping Ma , Jing Xiao , Mi Wang

Large visual-language models (VLMs), like CLIP, enable open-set image segmentation to segment arbitrary concepts from an image in a zero-shot manner. This goes beyond the traditional closed-set assumption, i.e., where models can only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Francis Engelmann , Fabian Manhardt , Michael Niemeyer , Keisuke Tateno , Marc Pollefeys , Federico Tombari

Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) aims to segment image regions beyond predefined category sets by leveraging semantic descriptions. While CLIP based approaches excel in semantic generalization, they frequently lack the fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Haoxi Zeng , Qiankun Liu , Yi Bin , Haiyue Zhang , Yujuan Ding , Guoqing Wang , Deqiang Ouyang , Heng Tao Shen

Open-Vocabulary Part Segmentation (OVPS) is an emerging field for recognizing fine-grained parts in unseen categories. We identify two primary challenges in OVPS: (1) the difficulty in aligning part-level image-text correspondence, and (2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Jiho Choi , Seonho Lee , Minhyun Lee , Seungho Lee , Hyunjung Shim