English
Related papers

Related papers: Direct Segmentation without Logits Optimization fo…

200 papers

Remote sensing image plays an irreplaceable role in fields such as agriculture, water resources, military, and disaster relief. Pixel-level interpretation is a critical aspect of remote sensing image applications; however, a prevalent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Kaiyu Li , Ruixun Liu , Xiangyong Cao , Xueru Bai , Feng Zhou , Deyu Meng , Zhi Wang

This paper presents a novel training-free framework for open-vocabulary image segmentation and object recognition (OVSR), which leverages EfficientNetB0, a convolutional neural network, for unsupervised segmentation and CLIP, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ying Dai , Wei Yu Chen

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 image segmentation is attracting increasing attention due to its critical applications in the real world. Traditional closed-vocabulary segmentation methods are not able to characterize novel objects, whereas several recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Xi Chen , Shuang Li , Ser-Nam Lim , Antonio Torralba , Hengshuang Zhao

The emergence of vision language models (VLMs) bridges the gap between vision and language, enabling multimodal understanding beyond traditional visual-only deep learning models. However, transferring VLMs from the natural image domain to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Boyi Li , Ce Zhang , Richard M. Timmerman , Wenxuan Bao

Open-vocabulary part segmentation (OVPS) is an emerging research area focused on segmenting fine-grained entities using diverse and previously unseen vocabularies. Our study highlights the inherent complexities of part segmentation due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Jiho Choi , Seonho Lee , Seungho Lee , Minhyun Lee , Hyunjung Shim

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

Semantic segmentation is one of the most fundamental tasks in image understanding with a long history of research, and subsequently a myriad of different approaches. Traditional methods strive to train models up from scratch, requiring vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Naomi Kombol , Ivan Martinović , Siniša Šegvić

Semantic segmentation requires a holistic understanding of the physical world, as it assigns semantic labels to spatially continuous and structurally coherent objects rather than to isolated pixels. However, existing data-free knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Hongxuan Sun , Tao Wu

Recently, test-time adaptation has attracted wide interest in the context of vision-language models for image classification. However, to the best of our knowledge, the problem is completely overlooked in dense prediction tasks such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Mehrdad Noori , David Osowiechi , Gustavo Adolfo Vargas Hakim , Ali Bahri , Moslem Yazdanpanah , Sahar Dastani , Farzad Beizaee , Ismail Ben Ayed , Christian Desrosiers

Understanding open-world semantics is critical for robotic planning and control, particularly in unstructured outdoor environments. Existing vision-language mapping approaches typically rely on object-centric segmentation priors, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Simon Schwaiger , Stefan Thalhammer , Wilfried Wöber , Gerald Steinbauer-Wagner

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) conducts pixel-level classification via text-driven alignment, where the domain discrepancy between base category training and open-vocabulary inference poses challenges in discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Jiahao Li , Yang Lu , Yachao Zhang , Fangyong Wang , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu

Semantic segmentation of 3D point cloud scenes is a crucial task for various applications. In real-world scenarios, training segmentation models often faces three concurrent forms of data insufficiency: scarcity of training scenes, scarcity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Takahiko Furuya

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

Open world image segmentation aims to achieve precise segmentation and semantic understanding of targets within images by addressing the infinitely open set of object categories encountered in the real world. However, traditional closed-set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Danyang Li , Tianhao Wu , Bin Li , Zhenyuan Chen , Yang Zhang , Yuxuan Li , Ming-Ming Cheng , Xiang Li

The global rise in the number of people with physical disabilities, in part due to improvements in post-trauma survivorship and longevity, has amplified the demand for advanced assistive technologies to improve mobility and independence.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yifan Xu , Vineet Kamat , Carol Menassa

Recent advances in Vision Language Models (VLMs) and Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) have opened new opportunities for zero-shot text-guided segmentation of remote sensing imagery. However, most existing approaches still rely on additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Jose Sosa , Danila Rukhovich , Anis Kacem , Djamila Aouada

Recently, open-vocabulary learning has emerged to accomplish segmentation for arbitrary categories of text-based descriptions, which popularizes the segmentation system to more general-purpose application scenarios. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Jie Qin , Jie Wu , Pengxiang Yan , Ming Li , Ren Yuxi , Xuefeng Xiao , Yitong Wang , Rui Wang , Shilei Wen , Xin Pan , Xingang Wang

Event cameras, known for low-latency operation and superior performance in challenging lighting conditions, are suitable for sensitive computer vision tasks such as semantic segmentation in autonomous driving. However, challenges arise due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Muhammad Rameez Ur Rahman , Jhony H. Giraldo , Indro Spinelli , Stéphane Lathuilière , Fabio Galasso

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Klara Reichard , Giulia Rizzoli , Stefano Gasperini , Lukas Hoyer , Pietro Zanuttigh , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari