arXiv AI

Complementing DINO Features with Image Structure for Part Discovery

The paper introduces Part‑DINO, a training‑free framework that enhances self‑supervised Vision Transformer (ViT) features from DINO with low‑level image boundaries to improve part discovery. By partitioning images using boundary detectors, pooling DINO features within each region, and clustering them, Part‑DINO yields structurally coherent part assignments. It outperforms other training‑free baselines on four standard benchmarks and remains competitive with weakly‑supervised and unsupervised methods.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

FoRIS: Progressive Foreground Refinement for Training-Free In-Context Segmentation

FoRIS is a training‑free in‑context segmentation framework that refines foreground masks through a coarse‑to‑fine process. It operates in three stages—Foreground Purification, Localization, and Consolidation—to suppress background noise, pinpoint target regions, and reconstruct complete foreground structures. The method achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance, improving mIoU by 4.5 and 4.8 points in 1‑shot and 5‑shot settings respectively.

By Ming Hu, Jianfu Yin, Mingyu Dou, Miaomiao Zhang, Yao Wang, Cong Hu, Bingliang Hu, Quan Wang
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

ProgResViT: Progressive Resolution and Width for Adaptive Vision Transformers

ProgResViT is an input‑adaptive Vision Transformer that processes images progressively across multiple rounds, starting with a low‑resolution image and a narrow subnetwork and refining the prediction with higher resolution and a wider subnetwork if needed. The method introduces Progress‑Conditioned Soft Gating (PSG) to share a single backbone across rounds while conditioning token fusion and layer outputs on the current round, block, and input resolution. Experiments on DeiT show improved accuracy‑compute trade‑offs compared to adaptive‑width, adaptive‑depth, and dynamic‑token baselines, and the design also benefits self‑supervised DINO representations and downstream semantic segmentation.

By Ali Hojjat, Janek Haberer, Olaf Landsiedel
arXiv AI
Oct 15

UnSAMv2: Self-Supervised Learning Enables Segment Anything at Any Granularity

UnSAMv2 is a self‑supervised extension of the Segment Anything Model that can segment objects at any granularity without human annotations. It discovers mask‑granularity pairs and introduces a granularity control embedding for continuous scale adjustment, requiring only 6K unlabeled images and 0.02% extra parameters. The model outperforms SAM/SAM‑2 across 11+ benchmarks, improving metrics such as 1‑IoU from 58.0 to 73.1 and achieving state‑of‑the‑art performance on language‑guided segmentation.

By Junwei Yu, Trevor Darrell, XuDong Wang
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 9

Region-Aware CLS Token Augmentation for Fine-Grained Image Retrieval

The paper proposes augmenting the global [CLS] token and register tokens of vision transformers with spatial region tokens to better capture fine‑grained image details. By matching each semantic token with a corresponding image patch, the method automatically generates localized ROI tokens without external annotations. These tokens are then used in a multi‑vector retrieval framework inspired by ColBERT, improving fine‑grained image retrieval while keeping storage costs manageable.

By Ian de Holanda Cavalcanti Bezerra, Vivek Trivedy, Lucas Pascotti Valem, Longin Jan Latecki
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 19

FlexPart: Text-Controlled Semantics-Aware 3D Part Segmentation at Flexible Granularity

FlexPart is a new framework that enables text‑controlled, semantics‑aware 3D mesh segmentation at any desired granularity. It introduces a holistic control prompt that combines part names with location and shape clauses, and uses a Vision‑Language Model pipeline to generate a large multi‑granularity dataset. The model produces a view‑independent part‑identity field in 3D space, and an inference‑time VLM planner can auto‑complete descriptive clauses from 2D renderings, allowing users to specify parts with ordinary words. FlexPart outperforms strong baselines by up to 22% in mIoU on its benchmark and improves selective segmentation by 35% over click‑driven methods.

By Yiqun Zhao, Jiachen Xu, Yihao Zhi, Yunfei Zhao, Zibo Zhao, Xintong Han, Chunchao Guo, Shenghua Gao