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Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) underpins many vision and robotics tasks that require generalizable semantic understanding. Existing approaches either rely on limited segmentation training data, which hinders generalization, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Omar Alama , Darshil Jariwala , Avigyan Bhattacharya , Seungchan Kim , Wenshan Wang , Sebastian Scherer

3D part segmentation is still an open problem in the field of 3D vision and AR/VR. Due to limited 3D labeled data, traditional supervised segmentation methods fall short in generalizing to unseen shapes and categories. Recently, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Keito Suzuki , Bang Du , Girish Krishnan , Kunyao Chen , Runfa Blark Li , Truong Nguyen

The emergence of CLIP has opened the way for open-world image perception. The zero-shot classification capabilities of the model are impressive but are harder to use for dense tasks such as image segmentation. Several methods have proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Monika Wysoczańska , Michaël Ramamonjisoa , Tomasz Trzciński , Oriane Siméoni

The recent years have witnessed the remarkable development for open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) using visual-language foundation models, yet still suffer from following fundamental challenges: (1) insufficient cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jing Wang , Huimin Shi , Quan Zhou , Qibo Liu , Suofei Zhang , Huimin Lu

The pre-trained text-image discriminative models, such as CLIP, has been explored for open-vocabulary semantic segmentation with unsatisfactory results due to the loss of crucial localization information and awareness of object shapes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Jinglong Wang , Xiawei Li , Jing Zhang , Qingyuan Xu , Qin Zhou , Qian Yu , Lu Sheng , Dong Xu

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) aims to detect the objects beyond the set of classes observed during training. This work introduces a straightforward and efficient strategy that utilizes pre-trained vision-language models (VLM),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Shilin Xu , Xiangtai Li , Size Wu , Wenwei Zhang , Yunhai Tong , Chen Change Loy

Foundation models have exhibited unprecedented capabilities in tackling many domains and tasks. Models such as CLIP are currently widely used to bridge cross-modal representations, and text-to-image diffusion models are arguably the leading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Barbara Toniella Corradini , Mustafa Shukor , Paul Couairon , Guillaume Couairon , Franco Scarselli , Matthieu Cord

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims to segment an image into semantic regions according to text descriptions, which may not have been seen during training. Recent two-stage methods first generate class-agnostic mask proposals and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Feng Liang , Bichen Wu , Xiaoliang Dai , Kunpeng Li , Yinan Zhao , Hang Zhang , Peizhao Zhang , Peter Vajda , Diana Marculescu

Panoramic images, capturing a 360{\deg} field of view (FoV), encompass omnidirectional spatial information crucial for scene understanding. However, it is not only costly to obtain training-sufficient dense-annotated panoramas but also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Junwei Zheng , Ruiping Liu , Yufan Chen , Kunyu Peng , Chengzhi Wu , Kailun Yang , Jiaming Zhang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

In autonomous driving, the novel objects and lack of annotations challenge the traditional 3D LiDAR semantic segmentation based on deep learning. Few-shot learning is a feasible way to solve these issues. However, currently few-shot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Jilin Mei , Junbao Zhou , Yu Hu

A unified neural network structure is presented for joint 3D object detection and point cloud segmentation in this paper. We leverage rich supervision from both detection and segmentation labels rather than using just one of them. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Yuanxin Zhong , Minghan Zhu , Huei Peng

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation enables models to recognize and segment objects from arbitrary natural language descriptions, offering the flexibility to handle novel, fine-grained, or functionally defined categories beyond fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Chongyu Wang , Kunlei Jing , Jihua Zhu , Di Wang

This paper presents an Open-Vocabulary Online 3D semantic mapping pipeline, that we denote by its acronym OVO. Given a sequence of posed RGB-D frames, we detect and track 3D segments, which we describe using CLIP vectors. These are computed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Tomas Berriel Martins , Martin R. Oswald , Javier Civera

Open-vocabulary image semantic segmentation (OVS) seeks to segment images into semantic regions across an open set of categories. Existing OVS methods commonly depend on foundational vision-language models and utilize similarity computation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Qinglong Cao , Yuntian Chen , Chao Ma , Xiaokang Yang

Image-text matching (ITM) aims to address the fundamental challenge of aligning visual and textual modalities, which inherently differ in their representations, continuous, high-dimensional image features vs. discrete, structured text. We…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Junyu Chen , Yihua Gao , Mingyong Li

In this paper, we propose an embarrassingly simple yet highly effective zero-shot semantic segmentation (ZS3) method, based on the pre-trained vision-language model CLIP. First, our study provides a couple of key discoveries: (i) the global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Letian Wu , Wenyao Zhang , Tengping Jiang , Wankou Yang , Xin Jin , Wenjun Zeng

We introduce the task of open-vocabulary 3D instance segmentation. Current approaches for 3D instance segmentation can typically only recognize object categories from a pre-defined closed set of classes that are annotated in the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Ayça Takmaz , Elisabetta Fedele , Robert W. Sumner , Marc Pollefeys , Federico Tombari , Francis Engelmann

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) entails assigning semantic labels to each pixel in an image using textual descriptions, typically leveraging world models such as CLIP. To enhance out-of-domain generalization, we propose Cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Aditya Gandhamal , Aniruddh Sikdar , Suresh Sundaram

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

Recently, deep learning based methods have revolutionized remote sensing image segmentation. However, these methods usually rely on a pre-defined semantic class set, thus needing additional image annotation and model training when adapting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Chengyang Ye , Yunzhi Zhuge , Pingping Zhang