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

    Sep 29, 2026Michele Antonazzi, Alejandra C. Hernandez, José Araujo +2Distribution ShiftContinual Test-Time Adaptation

    EECS and Digital Futures, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden · Ericsson Research, Ericsson AB, Stockholm, Sweden

  2. Preference-Guided Adaptation for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation via Prompt Disagreement

    Sep 28, 2026Hyun-Kurl Jang, Jihun Kim, Kuk-Jin YoonWeakly Supervised Semantic SegmentationPreference Optimization

    Visual Intelligence Lab. KAIST

  3. HyperCLIP++: Fine-tuning CLIP forOpen-vocabulary Semantic Segmentation in Hyperbolic Space

    Sep 21, 2026Zelin Peng, Zhengqin Xu, Changsong Wen +4VLM AdaptationOpen-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

    MoE Key Lab of Artificial Intelligence, AI Institute, School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China · State Key Laboratory of Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, 200083, China · Meituan, Shanghai, 200051, China

  4. ViCo-SAM3: Vision-Conditioned Alignment for Open-Vocabulary Camouflaged Object Segmentation

    Sep 14, 2026Qiangqiang Zhou, Wenjun Tang, Yong Chen +2Text-Guided Image SegmentationOpen-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Jiangxi Normal University · Institute of AI Education, East China Normal University

  5. Evaluation of Vision-Language Models Across Diverse Coastal Environments

    Sep 11, 2026Seth Knoop, Chad R. Samuelson, Gabriel R. Slade +2VLM EvaluationOpen-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

  6. LangStreet: Persistent Language Fields for Anchor-Decoded Street Gaussians

    Sep 11, 2026Runyi Yang, Deheng Zhang, Xiaoye Wang +63D Gaussian SplattingLanguage-Embedded 3DGS

    INSAIT, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” · vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China

  7. ENEAS: Embedding-guided Neural Ensemble for Adaptive Segmentation

    Sep 3, 2026Javier del Pino, Salvador Rodríguez, Alejandro Garabito +2Video Object SegmentationInstance Segmentation

    SperidLabs

  8. Restrict, Don't Retrain: Inference-Time VLM Guidance for Zero-Shot Aerial Segmentation

    Sep 1, 2026Teresa DiMeola, Charles Walter, Hong XiaoRemote Sensing Image SegmentationVision Foundation Models

    Dept. of Computer and Information Science University of Mississippi

  9. Towards Continual Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models in Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

    Aug 30, 2026Chandler Timm C. Doloriel, Yunbei Zhang, Sarthak Kumar Maharana +5Test-Time Adaptation of VLMsOpen-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

    Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK), Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) · Tulane University · University of Texas at Dallas

  10. GeoSeg-OV: Bridging Geospatial Gaps with Structural Guidance for Open-Vocabulary Remote Sensing Segmentation

    Aug 11, 2026Ruizhong Liu, Tingzhang Luo, Zaiyan Zhang +4Remote Sensing Image SegmentationDomain Generalization

    School of Computer Science, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, China · Systems Hub, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511453, Guangdong, China · Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China +3

  11. Test-Time Prototype Adaptation for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

    Aug 8, 2026Haozhe Wang, Jintao Cheng, Weibin Li +1Test-Time AdaptationTest-Time Adaptation of VLMs

    South China Normal University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  12. Universal Concept Disruption for SAM3 Image Segmentation

    Aug 6, 2026Hao Wang, Yuxuan Zhang, Wei YangPromptable Image SegmentationAdversarial Robustness

    School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China · School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China · Suzhou Institute for Advanced Research, University of Science and Technology of China, Suzhou, China +1

  13. MAVISEG: Manifold Propagation and Visual Prototypes for Zero-Shot Open-Vocabulary Segmentation in Diffusion Transformers

    Aug 6, 2026Rajatsubhra Chakraborty, Xujun Che, Ritabrata Chakraborty +2Image SegmentationDiffusion Transformer

    University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA · Manipal University Jaipur, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

  14. SCI-CLIP: Segment-Centric Inference with Reference Memory for Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Segmentation

    Aug 6, 2026Mohamad Zamini, Diksha ShuklaMemory-Augmented VLMsOpen-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

    University of Wyoming Laramie, WY

  15. Perceptual Anchoring: Prototype-Guided Text Calibration for Training-free Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

    Aug 4, 2026Wanli Ma, Jiangwen Lu, Qinmu Peng +1Open-Vocabulary Semantic SegmentationVision-Language Alignment

    School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China · National Anti-counterfeit Engineering Research Center, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China · School of Automation, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 310018, China

  16. Standalone DINOv3 for Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation in Remote Sensing

    Aug 4, 2026Changhao Zhao, Haoxiang Li, Yuke Li +2Remote Sensing Image SegmentationOpen-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

    College of Resources and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China

  17. Better, Stronger, Faster, and Broader: Structured All-Mask Prediction for MLLM-Based Segmentation

    Aug 3, 2026Jiazhen Liu, Mingkuan Feng, Long ChenEfficient Multimodal InferenceImage Segmentation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong.

  18. EOVSAM: Efficient Open-Vocabulary Segmentation with SAM 3 in One Pass

    Aug 3, 2026Haomin Peng, Yongkang Li, Zhaoxiang Liu +4Efficient VLM InferenceOpen-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Data Science & Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, China Unicom · Unicom Data Intelligence, China Unicom +1

  19. OVEarth-Bench: Evaluating Category Breadth and Query Diversity for Open-Vocabulary Earth Observation

    Jul 29, 2026Kaiyu Li, Zepeng Xin, Zixuan Jiang +4VLM EvaluationOpen-Vocabulary Object Detection

    Xi’an Jiaotong University

  20. TraceCLIP: Recovering Local Semantics from Patch-to-CLS Contributions

    Jul 28, 2026Xinran Liu, Shouqian Shi, Yutong Chen +3Open-Vocabulary Semantic SegmentationVision-Language Alignment

  21. Few-Shot Open-Vocabulary Remote Sensing Segmentation via Textual Inversion

    Jul 28, 2026Junhyuk Heo, Junghwan ParkRemote Sensing Image SegmentationFew-Shot Semantic Segmentation

    TelePIX, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  22. DINOde: Continuous Vision-Text Alignment for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

    Jul 23, 2026Sung-Hoon Yoon, Hoyong Kwon, Changgyoon Oh +1VLM AdaptationOpen-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

    Multimodal Intelligence and Perception Lab., DGIST, Republic of Korea · Visual Intelligence Lab., KAIST, Republic of Korea

  23. Sparse Attention for Dense Open-Vocabulary Prediction in CLIP

    Jul 8, 2026Fatimah Zohra, Chen Zhao, Shuming Liu +1Visual AttentionFine-Grained Image Retrieval

    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) · Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen

  24. Repurposing CLIP to Localize at Pixel Level

    Jul 6, 2026Jiaxiang Fang, Shiqiang Ma, Jing Wang +3Large Vision-Language ModelsOpen-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China · Advanced Technology Center Beijing AI Laboratory, Chao-Yang District, Beijing 100027, China · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China +1

  25. DeGenseGS: Geometrically and Semantically Decoupled Surgical Scene Understanding in 4D Gaussian Splatting

    Jul 6, 2026Yimo Wang, Bin Kang, Shuojue Yang +13D Gaussian SplattingDynamic Scene Reconstruction

    School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China · Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore · School of Internet of Things, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China

  26. RSGPNet: Geometric Prompting for Remote Sensing Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

    Jun 25, 2026Shanwen Wang, Xin Sun, Sirui Wang +1Remote Sensing Image SegmentationText-Guided Image Segmentation

    Faculty of Data Science, City University of Macau, 999078, SAR Macao, China · Chair of Data Science in Earth Observation, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany · Munich Center for Machine Learning, Munich, Germany

  27. Open-Vocabulary BEV Segmentation with 3D-Aware Geometric Constraints

    Jun 23, 2026Hojun Choi, Seulbin Hwang, Dae Jung Kim +3VLMs for Autonomous DrivingOpen-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

    KAIST AI, South Korea · NAVER LABS, South Korea

  28. Prompt-Calibrated SAM 3 for Open-Vocabulary Remote Sensing Semantic Segmentation

    Jun 20, 2026Yanghui Song, Nanqing Liu, Haonan Yin +3Remote Sensing Image SegmentationPromptable Image Segmentation

    School of Information Science and Technology, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China · College of Computer Science, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China

  29. ActiveSAM: Fast and Accurate Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation with Frozen SAM 3

    Jun 15, 2026Tran Dinh Tien, Zhiqiang ShenEfficient VLM InferenceOpen-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

    VILA Lab, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

  30. LASA: A Weak Supervision Method for Open-Vocabulary Scene Sketch Semantic Segmentation

    Jun 10, 2026Liwen Yi, Xianlin Zhang, Yue Zhang +2Weakly Supervised Image SegmentationWeakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Beijing, China