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Main Authors: Miao, Yang, Zaech, Jan-Nico, Wang, Xi, Despinoy, Fabien, Paudel, Danda Pani, Van Gool, Luc
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25263
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author Miao, Yang
Zaech, Jan-Nico
Wang, Xi
Despinoy, Fabien
Paudel, Danda Pani
Van Gool, Luc
author_facet Miao, Yang
Zaech, Jan-Nico
Wang, Xi
Despinoy, Fabien
Paudel, Danda Pani
Van Gool, Luc
contents We propose LangHOPS, the first Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) based framework for open-vocabulary object-part instance segmentation. Given an image, LangHOPS can jointly detect and segment hierarchical object and part instances from open-vocabulary candidate categories. Unlike prior approaches that rely on heuristic or learnable visual grouping, our approach grounds object-part hierarchies in language space. It integrates the MLLM into the object-part parsing pipeline to leverage its rich knowledge and reasoning capabilities, and link multi-granularity concepts within the hierarchies. We evaluate LangHOPS across multiple challenging scenarios, including in-domain and cross-dataset object-part instance segmentation, and zero-shot semantic segmentation. LangHOPS achieves state-of-the-art results, surpassing previous methods by 5.5% Average Precision (AP) (in-domain) and 4.8% (cross-dataset) on the PartImageNet dataset and by 2.5% mIOU on unseen object parts in ADE20K (zero-shot). Ablation studies further validate the effectiveness of the language-grounded hierarchy and MLLM driven part query refinement strategy. The code will be released here.
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spellingShingle LangHOPS: Language Grounded Hierarchical Open-Vocabulary Part Segmentation
Miao, Yang
Zaech, Jan-Nico
Wang, Xi
Despinoy, Fabien
Paudel, Danda Pani
Van Gool, Luc
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
We propose LangHOPS, the first Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) based framework for open-vocabulary object-part instance segmentation. Given an image, LangHOPS can jointly detect and segment hierarchical object and part instances from open-vocabulary candidate categories. Unlike prior approaches that rely on heuristic or learnable visual grouping, our approach grounds object-part hierarchies in language space. It integrates the MLLM into the object-part parsing pipeline to leverage its rich knowledge and reasoning capabilities, and link multi-granularity concepts within the hierarchies. We evaluate LangHOPS across multiple challenging scenarios, including in-domain and cross-dataset object-part instance segmentation, and zero-shot semantic segmentation. LangHOPS achieves state-of-the-art results, surpassing previous methods by 5.5% Average Precision (AP) (in-domain) and 4.8% (cross-dataset) on the PartImageNet dataset and by 2.5% mIOU on unseen object parts in ADE20K (zero-shot). Ablation studies further validate the effectiveness of the language-grounded hierarchy and MLLM driven part query refinement strategy. The code will be released here.
title LangHOPS: Language Grounded Hierarchical Open-Vocabulary Part Segmentation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25263