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Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) in remote sensing images is a promising task that employs textual descriptions for identifying undefined land cover categories. Despite notable advances, existing methods typically employ a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Guanchun Wang , Chenxiao Wu , Xiangrong Zhang , Zelin Peng , Jianxun Lai , Tianyang Zhang , Xu Tang

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) is an open-world task that aims to assign each pixel within an image to a specific class defined by arbitrary text descriptions. While large-scale vision-language models have shown remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Lin Chen , Qi Yang , Kun Ding , Zhihao Li , Gang Shen , Fei Li , Qiyuan Cao , Shiming Xiang

Recently, the emergence of the large-scale vision-language model (VLM), such as CLIP, has opened the way towards open-world object perception. Many works have explored the utilization of pre-trained VLM for the challenging open-vocabulary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Youwei Pang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Jiaming Zuo , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVS) aims to segment images of arbitrary categories specified by class labels or captions. However, most previous best-performing methods, whether pixel grouping methods or region recognition methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yuan Wang , Rui Sun , Naisong Luo , Yuwen Pan , Tianzhu Zhang

Combining simple architectures with large-scale pre-training has led to massive improvements in image classification. For object detection, pre-training and scaling approaches are less well established, especially in the long-tailed and…

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment target objects in videos based on natural language descriptions. However, fixed keyframe-based approaches that couple a vision language model with a separate propagation module…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jihwan Hong , Jaeyoung Do

Visible and infrared image fusion (VIF) has gained significant attention in recent years due to its wide application in tasks such as scene segmentation and object detection. VIF methods can be broadly classified into traditional VIF…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zixian Zhao , Xingchen Zhang

Open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding presents a significant challenge in the field. Recent works have sought to transfer knowledge embedded in vision-language models from 2D to 3D domains. However, these approaches often require prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Hanchen Tai , Qingdong He , Jiangning Zhang , Yijie Qian , Zhenyu Zhang , Xiaobin Hu , Xiangtai Li , Yabiao Wang , Yong Liu

Video instance segmentation (VIS) aims at classifying, segmenting and tracking object instances in video sequences. Recent transformer-based neural networks have demonstrated their powerful capability of modeling spatio-temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Xiang Li , Jinglu Wang , Xiaohao Xu , Bhiksha Raj , Yan Lu

Recently, the open-vocabulary semantic segmentation problem has attracted increasing attention and the best performing methods are based on two-stream networks: one stream for proposal mask generation and the other for segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Cong Han , Yujie Zhong , Dengjie Li , Kai Han , Lin Ma

Recent generalist vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive reasoning capabilities across diverse multimodal tasks. However, these models still struggle with fine-grained object-level understanding and grounding. In terms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Timothy Ossowski , Junjie Hu

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

This paper presents a new method for the zero-shot open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) of 3D automotive lidar data. To circumvent the recognized image-text modality gap that is intrinsic to approaches based on Vision Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Nermin Samet , Gilles Puy , Renaud Marlet

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVD) models are considered to be Large Multi-modal Models (LMM), due to their extensive training data and a large number of parameters. Mainstream OVD models prioritize object coarse-grained category rather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yuqi Ma , Mengyin Liu , Chao Zhu , Xu-Cheng Yin

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

Recently, groundbreaking results have been presented on open-vocabulary semantic image segmentation. Such methods segment each pixel in an image into arbitrary categories provided at run-time in the form of text prompts, as opposed to a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Kenneth Blomqvist , Francesco Milano , Jen Jen Chung , Lionel Ott , Roland Siegwart

Open-vocabulary scene understanding using 3D Gaussian (3DGS) representations has garnered considerable attention. However, existing methods mostly lift knowledge from large 2D vision models into 3DGS on a scene-by-scene basis, restricting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Runnan Chen , Xiangyu Sun , Zhaoqing Wang , Youquan Liu , Jiepeng Wang , Lingdong Kong , Jiankang Deng , Mingming Gong , Liang Pan , Wenping Wang , Tongliang Liu

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

Recent works have shown huge success of deep learning models for common in vocabulary (IV) scene text recognition. However, in real-world scenarios, out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words are of great importance and SOTA recognition models usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Jinshui Hu , Chenyu Liu , Qiandong Yan , Xuyang Zhu , Jiajia Wu , Jun Du , Lirong Dai

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation requires assigning pixel-level semantic labels while supporting an open and unrestricted set of categories. Training-free CLIP-based approaches preserve strong zero-shot generalization but typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Mohamad Zamini , Diksha Shukla