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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown exceptional capabilities in vision-language tasks; however, effectively integrating image segmentation into these models remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Mengcheng Lan , Chaofeng Chen , Yue Zhou , Jiaxing Xu , Yiping Ke , Xinjiang Wang , Litong Feng , Wayne Zhang

Recently, semantic segmentation models trained with image-level text supervision have shown promising results in challenging open-world scenarios. However, these models still face difficulties in learning fine-grained semantic alignment at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Kaixin Cai , Pengzhen Ren , Yi Zhu , Hang Xu , Jianzhuang Liu , Changlin Li , Guangrun Wang , Xiaodan Liang

In this paper we introduce a new dataset containing instance segmentation masks for ten different categories of winter sports equipment, called WSESeg (Winter Sports Equipment Segmentation). Furthermore, we carry out interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Robin Schön , Daniel Kienzle , Rainer Lienhart

Current methods for LIDAR semantic segmentation are not robust enough for real-world applications, e.g., autonomous driving, since it is closed-set and static. The closed-set assumption makes the network only able to output labels of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jun Cen , Peng Yun , Shiwei Zhang , Junhao Cai , Di Luan , Michael Yu Wang , Ming Liu , Mingqian Tang

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

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing (RS) images is pivotal for comprehensive Earth observation, but the demand for interpreting new object categories, coupled with the high expense of manual annotation, poses significant challenges.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Kaiyu Li , Xiangyong Cao , Ruixun Liu , Shihong Wang , Zixuan Jiang , Zhi Wang , Deyu Meng

Audio-visual segmentation aims to separate sounding objects from videos by predicting pixel-level masks based on audio signals. Existing methods primarily concentrate on closed-set scenarios and direct audio-visual alignment and fusion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shengkai Chen , Yifang Yin , Jinming Cao , Shili Xiang , Zhenguang Liu , Roger Zimmermann

Open-Vocabulary Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (OVRSIS), an emerging task that adapts Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) to the remote sensing (RS) domain, remains underexplored due to the absence of a unified evaluation benchmark and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Bingyu Li , Haocheng Dong , Da Zhang , Zhiyuan Zhao , Junyu Gao , Xuelong Li

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has gained significant recognition in the field of semantic segmentation due to its versatile capabilities and impressive performance. Despite its success, SAM faces two primary limitations: (1) it relies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yuchen Li , Li Zhang , Youwei Liang , Pengtao Xie

Language-Guided object recognition in remote sensing imagery is crucial for large-scale mapping and automated data annotation. However, existing open-vocabulary and visual grounding methods rely on explicit category cues, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yijie Zheng , Weijie Wu , Qingyun Li , Xuehui Wang , Xu Zhou , Aiai Ren , Jun Shen , Long Zhao , Guoqing Li , Xue Yang

Although perception systems have made remarkable advancements in recent years, they still rely on explicit human instruction or pre-defined categories to identify the target objects before executing visual recognition tasks. Such systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Xin Lai , Zhuotao Tian , Yukang Chen , Yanwei Li , Yuhui Yuan , Shu Liu , Jiaya Jia

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims to segment images into distinct semantic regions for both seen and unseen categories at the pixel level. Current methods utilize text embeddings from pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Ziyu Zhao , Xiaoguang Li , Linjia Shi , Nasrin Imanpour , Song Wang

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

Segment Anything Model (SAM) represents a large-scale segmentation model that enables powerful zero-shot capabilities with flexible prompts. While SAM can segment any object in zero-shot, it requires user-provided prompts for each target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Kosuke Sakurai , Ryotaro Shimizu , Masayuki Goto

Classical close-set semantic segmentation networks have limited ability to detect out-of-distribution (OOD) objects, which is important for safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving. Incrementally learning these OOD objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Jun Cen , Peng Yun , Junhao Cai , Michael Yu Wang , Ming Liu

Weakly Supervised Object Localization (WSOL), which aims to localize objects by only using image-level labels, has attracted much attention because of its low annotation cost in real applications. Current studies focus on the Class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Xi Yang , Songsong Duan , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Open-vocabulary object detection aims to detect arbitrary classes via text prompts. Methods without cross-modal fusion layers (non-fusion) offer faster inference by treating recognition as a retrieval problem, \ie, matching regions to text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shenghao Fu , Yukun Su , Fengyun Rao , Jing Lyu , Xiaohua Xie , Wei-Shi Zheng

Segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision, with prompt-driven methods gaining prominence due to their flexibility. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) excels at point-prompted segmentation, while text-based models, often leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Suzhe Xu , Jialin Peng , Chengyuan Zhang

The development of high-resolution remote sensing satellites has provided great convenience for research work related to remote sensing. Segmentation and extraction of specific targets are essential tasks when facing the vast and complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jie Zhang , Xubing Yang , Rui Jiang , Wei Shao , Li Zhang

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