arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 30

When to Adapt: Multi-Signal Domain Shift Detection for Efficient Training-Free Adaptation in Open-Vocabulary Segmentation

arXiv:2609.37602v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust and reliable perception is essential for autonomous robots operating in real-world environments, particularly in long-term missions where envi...

By Michele Antonazzi, Alejandra C. Hernandez, Jos\'e Araujo, Olov Andersson, Patric Jensfelt
arXiv AI
Aug 19

Exploring Efficient Open-Vocabulary Segmentation in the Remote Sensing

The paper introduces OVRSISBench, a unified benchmark for open‑vocabulary remote sensing image segmentation, and evaluates existing OVS/OVRSIS models, uncovering their shortcomings in remote sensing contexts. Leveraging insights from this evaluation, the authors propose RSKT‑Seg, a new framework featuring a Multi‑Directional Cost Map Aggregation module, an Efficient Cost Map Fusion transformer, and a Remote Sensing Knowledge Transfer module. Experiments on the benchmark demonstrate that RSKT‑Seg outperforms strong baselines by +3.8 mIoU and +5.9 mACC while achieving twice the inference speed.

By Bingyu Li, Haocheng Dong, Da Zhang, Zhiyuan Zhao, Junyu Gao, Xuelong Li
arXiv AI
Oct 15

Exploring the Underwater World Segmentation without Extra Training

The paper introduces AquaOV255, a large-scale underwater segmentation dataset with 255 categories and over 20,000 images, and establishes the UOVSBench benchmark by combining it with five other datasets. It also presents Earth2Ocean, a training‑free open‑vocabulary segmentation framework that adapts terrestrial vision‑language models to underwater scenes using a Geometric‑guided Visual Mask Generator and a Category‑visual Semantic Alignment module. Experiments on UOVSBench show that Earth2Ocean significantly improves performance while keeping inference efficient.

By Bingyu Li, Tao Huo, Da Zhang, Zhiyuan Zhao, Junyu Gao, Xuelong Li
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 24

Continual Test-Time Adaptation in Computer Vision: Methods, Benchmarks, and Future Directions

The paper surveys Continual Test-Time Adaptation (CTTA), a framework that adapts pretrained computer‑vision models to non‑stationary target distributions without source data or labeled targets, while avoiding catastrophic forgetting and error accumulation. It formally defines the CTTA problem, categorizes existing methods into optimization‑based, parameter‑efficient, and architecture‑based families, and reviews representative techniques and benchmarks across standard evaluation settings. The survey also outlines current limitations and proposes future research directions, such as adapting foundation models and black‑box systems.

By Sarthak Kumar Maharana, Shambhavi Mishra, Yunbei Zhang, Shuaicheng Niu, Taki Hasan Rafi, Jihun Hamm, Marco Pedersoli, Jose Dolz, Yunhui Guo
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

Continual Learning with Vision-Language Models via Semantic-Geometry Preservation

arXiv:2603. 12055v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Continual learning of pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) is prone to catastrophic forgetting, yet current approaches adapt to new tasks without explicitly preserving the cross-modal semantic geometry inherited from pretraining and previous stages, allowing new-task supervision to induce geometric distortion.

By Chiyuan He, Zihuan Qiu, Fanman Meng, Runtong Zhang, Linfeng Xu, Qingbo Wu, Hongliang Li