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Segmenting and recognizing diverse object parts is a crucial ability in applications spanning various computer vision and robotic tasks. While significant progress has been made in object-level Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation (OVSS),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Meng Wei , Xiaoyu Yue , Wenwei Zhang , Shu Kong , Xihui Liu , Jiangmiao Pang

Zero-shot referring image segmentation aims to locate and segment the target region based on a referring expression, with the primary challenge of aligning and matching semantics across visual and textual modalities without training.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Jiachen Li , Qing Xie , Renshu Gu , Jinyu Xu , Yongjian Liu , Xiaohan Yu

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) marks a significant advancement in segmentation models, offering robust zero-shot abilities and dynamic prompting. However, existing medical SAMs are not suitable for the multi-scale nature of whole-slide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Hong Liu , Haosen Yang , Paul J. van Diest , Josien P. W. Pluim , Mitko Veta

Existing studies typically investigate domain shift and category shift as independent problems, however, in real-world scenarios, the two types of shifts often occur simultaneously and interact, leading to significant degradation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yupeng Zhang , Ruize Han , Fangnan Zhou , Wei Feng , Liang Wan

Self-supervised Object Segmentation (SOS) aims to segment objects without any annotations. Under conditions of multi-camera inputs, the structural, textural and geometrical consistency among each view can be leveraged to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Xiaoyun Zheng , Liwei Liao , Jianbo Jiao , Feng Gao , Ronggang Wang

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

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

Exploring new knowledge is a fundamental human ability that can be mirrored in the development of deep neural networks, especially in the field of object detection. Open world object detection (OWOD) is an emerging area of research that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yiming Li , Yi Wang , Wenqian Wang , Dan Lin , Bingbing Li , Kim-Hui Yap

In this study, we propose NOVO (NO text, Visual-Only prompts), a novel framework that bridges vision-language models (VLMs) and segmentation models through visual-only prompts. Unlike prior approaches that feed text-derived SEG token…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Kyung-Yoon Yoon , Yeong-Jun Cho

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

In the realm of food computing, segmenting ingredients from images poses substantial challenges due to the large intra-class variance among the same ingredients, the emergence of new ingredients, and the high annotation costs associated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Xiongwei Wu , Sicheng Yu , Ee-Peng Lim , Chong-Wah Ngo

In recent years, instance segmentation has garnered significant attention across various applications. However, training a fully-supervised instance segmentation model requires costly both instance-level and pixel-level annotations. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yuchen Shen , Dong Zhang , Zhao Zhang , Liyong Fu , Qiaolin Ye

Open-vocabulary segmentation aims to identify and segment specific regions and objects based on text-based descriptions. A common solution is to leverage powerful vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, to bridge the gap between vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Bingyu Li , Da Zhang , Zhiyuan Zhao , Junyu Gao , Xuelong Li

Detecting and segmenting novel object instances in open-world environments is a fundamental problem in robotic perception. Given only a small set of template images, a robot must locate and segment a specific object instance in a cluttered,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Qifan Zhang , Sai Haneesh Allu , Jikai Wang , Yangxiao Lu , Yu Xiang

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

The performance of image segmentation models has historically been constrained by the high cost of collecting large-scale annotated data. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) alleviates this original problem through a promptable,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Miguel Espinosa , Chenhongyi Yang , Linus Ericsson , Steven McDonagh , Elliot J. Crowley

As hubs of human activity, urban surfaces consist of a wealth of semantic entities. Segmenting these various entities from satellite imagery is crucial for a range of downstream applications. Current advanced segmentation models can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yu Wang , Yi Wang , Rui Dai , Yujie Wang , Kaikui Liu , Xiangxiang Chu , Yansheng Li

The CLIP and Segment Anything Model (SAM) are remarkable vision foundation models (VFMs). SAM excels in segmentation tasks across diverse domains, whereas CLIP is renowned for its zero-shot recognition capabilities. This paper presents an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Haobo Yuan , Xiangtai Li , Chong Zhou , Yining Li , Kai Chen , Chen Change Loy

Deriving reliable region-word alignment from image-text pairs is critical to learn object-level vision-language representations for open-vocabulary object detection. Existing methods typically rely on pre-trained or self-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Chuofan Ma , Yi Jiang , Xin Wen , Zehuan Yuan , Xiaojuan Qi

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) excels at general image segmentation but has limited ability to understand natural language, which restricts its direct application in Referring Expression Segmentation (RES). Toward this end, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Wei Tang , Xuejing Liu , Yanpeng Sun , Zechao Li