Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) leverages textual semantics to segment objects beyond predefined categories. While the self-supervised model DINOv3 provides strong structured visual representations, its lack of native textual alignment hinders its direct application to OVSS.
arXiv:2608. 03023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Remote sensing semantic segmentation is hindered by costly pixel-level annotations, motivating training-free open-vocabulary methods.
By Changhao Zhao, Haoxiang Li, Yuke Li, Hai Liu, LingLin Zeng
arXiv:2609.28187v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Self-supervised vision transformers trained with DINO-style objectives exhibit striking emergent semantic representation quality across visual tasks, y...
By Basavaraj Sunagad, Artur Jesslen, Adam Kortylewski
ViCo-SAM3 introduces a Vision-Conditioned alignment framework for open-vocabulary camouflaged object segmentation. The approach adds a vision-conditioned (ViCo) module that dynamically adjusts text embeddings based on global visual context, and a vision-conditioned cross-modal binding (ViCoBind) module to improve interaction between visual and textual representations. These innovations close the semantic gap between text and pixel-level cues, enabling state‑of‑the‑art performance on the OVCamo benchmark without heavy parameter overhead.
By Qiangqiang Zhou, Wenjun Tang, Yong Chen, Dandan Zhu, Jiawei Xu
arXiv:2609.24564v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: CLIP, a foundational vision-language model, has emerged as a powerful tool for open-vocabulary semantic segmentation. While freezing CLIP's text encode...
By Zelin Peng, Zhengqin Xu, Changsong Wen, Yu Huang, Yaoming Wang, Xiaokang Yang, Wei Shen
GoDeep is an annotation‑free method for open‑vocabulary 3D scene understanding that uses a vision‑language model solely as a translator to generate structured, entity‑level descriptions of each image. These descriptions are projected and aggregated in a language‑only embedding space, eliminating the need for a 3D training corpus or domain‑specific encoder. The approach achieves competitive performance on ScanNet++ and a cultural heritage benchmark, accurately localizes out‑of‑vocabulary objects, and offers explainable, point‑level predictions.
By Thodoris Betsas, Anastasios Doulamis, Andreas Georgopoulos