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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…

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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

Referring image segmentation is a challenging task that involves generating pixel-wise segmentation masks based on natural language descriptions. The complexity of this task increases with the intricacy of the sentences provided. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Hai Nguyen-Truong , E-Ro Nguyen , Tuan-Anh Vu , Minh-Triet Tran , Binh-Son Hua , Sai-Kit Yeung

In this paper, we consider the problem of open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVS), which aims to segment objects of arbitrary classes instead of pre-defined, closed-set categories. The main contributions are as follows: First, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Jilan Xu , Junlin Hou , Yuejie Zhang , Rui Feng , Yi Wang , Yu Qiao , Weidi Xie

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

Segment Anything Model (SAM), known for its remarkable zero-shot segmentation capabilities, has garnered significant attention in the community. Nevertheless, its performance is challenged when dealing with what we refer to as visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Guangqian Guo , Pengfei Chen , Yong Guo , Huafeng Chen , Boqiang Zhang , Shan Gao

Open-Vocabulary Camouflaged Object Segmentation (OVCOS) seeks to segment and classify camouflaged objects from arbitrary categories, presenting unique challenges due to visual ambiguity and unseen categories.Recent approaches typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kai Zhao , Wubang Yuan , Zheng Wang , Guanyi Li , Xiaoqiang Zhu , Deng-ping Fan , Dan Zeng

We present lazy visual grounding, a two-stage approach of unsupervised object mask discovery followed by object grounding, for open-vocabulary semantic segmentation. Plenty of the previous art casts this task as pixel-to-text classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Dahyun Kang , Minsu Cho

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

Video object segmentation (VOS) is a highly challenging problem since the initial mask, defining the target object, is only given at test-time. The main difficulty is to effectively handle appearance changes and similar background objects,…

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Visual analytics (VA) requires analysts to iteratively propose analysis tasks based on observations and execute tasks by creating visualizations and interactive exploration to gain insights. This process demands skills in programming, data…

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Image segmentation beyond predefined categories is a key challenge in remote sensing, where novel and unseen classes often emerge during inference. Open-vocabulary image Segmentation addresses these generalization issues in traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Saikat Dutta , Akhil Vasim , Siddhant Gole , Hamid Rezatofighi , Biplab Banerjee

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims to assign labels to every pixel in an image based on text labels. Existing approaches typically utilize vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, for dense prediction. However, VLMs, pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Zhen Yao , Xin Li , Taotao Jing , Shuai Zhang , Mooi Choo Chuah

Language-guided segmentation transcends the scope limitations of traditional semantic segmentation, enabling models to segment arbitrary target regions based on natural language instructions. Existing approaches typically adopt a two-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Chao Hao , Jun Xu , Ji Du , Shuo Ye , Ziyue Qiao , Xiaodong Cun , Guangcong Wang , Xubin Zheng , Zitong Yu

Recent progress in computer vision has produced a wide range of powerful specialized models for detection, segmentation, counting, and other visual tasks. However, these models are usually optimized for isolated task formulations, making it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yaowu Fan , Tao Han , Dazhao Du , Andy J. Ma , Jia Wan

Recognizing the sounding objects in scenes is a longstanding objective in embodied AI, with diverse applications in robotics and AR/VR/MR. To that end, Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS), taking as condition an audio signal to identify the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Artem Sokolov , Swapnil Bhosale , Xiatian Zhu

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) task aims to segment objects in videos. However, previous settings either require time-consuming manual masks of target objects at the first frame during inference or lack the flexibility to specify arbitrary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Pinxue Guo , Lingyi Hong , Xinyu Zhou , Shuyong Gao , Wanyun Li , Jinglun Li , Zhaoyu Chen , Xiaoqiang Li , Wei Zhang , Wenqiang Zhang

Intelligent behaviour in the real-world requires the ability to acquire new knowledge from an ongoing sequence of experiences while preserving and reusing past knowledge. We propose a novel algorithm for unsupervised representation learning…

We present LlamaSeg, a visual autoregressive framework that unifies multiple image segmentation tasks via natural language instructions. We reformulate image segmentation as a visual generation problem, representing masks as "visual" tokens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jiru Deng , Tengjin Weng , Tianyu Yang , Wenhan Luo , Zhiheng Li , Wenhao Jiang

Understanding 3D scene-level affordances from natural language instructions is essential for enabling embodied agents to interact meaningfully in complex environments. However, this task remains challenging due to the need for semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Lian He , Meng Liu , Qilang Ye , Yu Zhou , Xiang Deng , Gangyi Ding