arXiv:2607. 26107v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dense vision-language understanding, including object localization, region recognition, and open-vocabulary semantic segmentation, requires associating language concepts with spatially grounded visual regions.
By Xinran Liu, Shouqian Shi, Yutong Chen, Ge Wang, Xin-Wei Yao, Sheng Zhong
arXiv:2509.22650v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Most existing approaches to referring segmentation achieve strong performance only through fine-tuning or by composing multiple pre-trained models,...
By Anna Kukleva, Enis Simsar, Alessio Tonioni, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Federico Tombari, Jan Eric Lenssen, Bernt Schiele
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
arXiv:2605.12491v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Vision Transformers (ViTs) learn rich visual-semantic representations through all-to-all self-attention among patch tokens. However, this design im...
By Alan Z. Song, Yinjie Chen, Mu Nan, Deva Ramanan, Michael J. Tarr, Andrew F. Luo
arXiv:2509. 24528v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Object retrieval from a scene has become a new trend of research due to its numerous applications.
By Mohamad Amin Mirzaei, Pantea Amoie, Ali Ekhterachian, Matin Mirzababaei, Babak Khalaj
The paper introduces Text-to-Seed (T2S), a training‑free framework for open‑vocabulary semantic segmentation that repurposes Stable Diffusion to generate attention‑based seed points from text queries. These sparse seeds serve as point prompts for the Segment Anything Model (SAM), enabling reliable region expansion without relying on inaccurate coarse masks. T2S achieves strong performance on standard OVSS benchmarks using only the text‑to‑region correspondence of diffusion models and no task‑specific training or extra annotations.
By Kumju Jo, Heesun Jung, Sungyong Baik