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arxiv: 2604.15946 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-17 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.RO

SENSE: Stereo OpEN Vocabulary SEmantic Segmentation

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keywords stereo visionopen-vocabulary semantic segmentationvision-language modelsgeometric cuesPhraseStereo datasetspatial reasoningzero-shot segmentation
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The pith

Stereo image pairs supply geometric cues that improve accuracy in open-vocabulary semantic segmentation.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper establishes that stereo vision can be combined with vision-language models to add geometric cues to open-vocabulary semantic segmentation. This matters for a sympathetic reader because single-view approaches often lose spatial precision near boundaries and under occlusions in dynamic settings. SENSE is trained on the PhraseStereo dataset and reports concrete gains in phrase-grounded tasks plus zero-shot transfer. It shows a 2.9 percent Average Precision lift over baseline on PhraseStereo and relative mIoU gains of 3.5 percent on Cityscapes and 18 percent on KITTI. Joint semantic and geometric reasoning is presented as the route to more reliable language-driven scene understanding for robots.

Core claim

SENSE is the first stereo open-vocabulary semantic segmentation method. It uses stereo image pairs to introduce geometric cues that improve spatial reasoning inside vision-language models. Trained on PhraseStereo, the approach raises Average Precision by 2.9 percent over the baseline and 0.76 percent over the strongest competing method while delivering relative mIoU gains of 3.5 percent on Cityscapes and 18 percent on KITTI.

What carries the argument

SENSE, the method that fuses stereo-derived geometric cues with vision-language model features to produce open-vocabulary segmentations.

If this is right

  • More precise handling of object boundaries and occlusions in open-vocabulary tasks.
  • Stronger zero-shot generalization across datasets when geometry augments semantics.
  • Improved support for phrase-grounded segmentation in stereo-equipped robotic systems.
  • Joint semantic-geometry reasoning enables more accurate natural-language scene understanding for autonomous vehicles.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The stereo cue mechanism could transfer to other multi-view camera rigs common in vehicles.
  • Robustness testing under varying stereo quality would clarify when the geometric benefit holds.

Load-bearing premise

Stereo image pairs reliably supply geometric cues that improve segmentation accuracy without errors from stereo matching, calibration, or occlusions outweighing the gains.

What would settle it

A controlled test on scenes with known stereo matching failures, such as low-texture regions or deliberately miscalibrated pairs, where SENSE shows no improvement or worse performance than the single-image baseline.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.15946 by Ezio Malis (ACENTAURI), Ga\'etan Bahl, Philippe Martinet (ACENTAURI), Thomas Campagnolo (ACENTAURI).

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: SENSE-512. Zero-shot open-vocabulary semantic seg￾mentation from stereo image pairs (Cityscapes) using natural lan￾guage prompts. By combining semantics, geometry, and language, SENSE improves scene understanding in Intelligent Transporta￾tion Systems (ITS). align textual and visual features to enable matching be￾tween language prompts and image content. However, these models are primarily designed for ima… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: SENSE architecture. A dual-branch, weight-shared CLIP encoder [27] processes stereo images and outputs three intermediate features per branch. These are fused via the SIEF module (Sec. 3.2) after projection to P = 64. The decoder comprises three transformer blocks conditioned on the textual prompt through FiLM [12], and incorporates the SDAF module (Sec. 3.4) for disparity-aware refinement. Disparity maps … view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Stereo Intermediate-level Embedding Fusion (SIEF) Module. SIEF learns adaptive weights to combine left and right intermediate stereo activation features from CLIP vision trans￾former and projects the fused embedding to a 64-dimensional rep￾resentation. For the legend symbols, refer to [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Architecture of the Semantic Disparity Attention Fu￾sion (SDAF) Module. SDAF combines disparity-normalized geo￾metric cues with semantic decoder features to refine the final seg￾mentation output. For the legend symbols, refer to [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative comparison of referring expression semantic segmentation. A comparison of SENSE-352 in PhraseStereo dataset with CLIPSeg (PC+) [23] method. Predictions from SENSE-352 and CLIPSeg are visualized as sigmoid probability maps, highlighting confidence for the queried text prompt (blue box). OpenSeg [13] OpenWorldSAM [38] CLIPSeg (PC+) [23] MDETR [16] SENSE-352 (Ours) SENSE-512 (Ours) Time (ms) 123.3… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Qualitative comparison of zero-shot semantic segmentation. Comparison of SENSE-512 in Cityscapes and SENSE-352 in KITTI dataset, with the second best performing method, OpenSeg [13]. In GT and SENSE-512, pixels shown in black are pixels that are unlabeled. In OpenSeg, black pixels correspond to unknown label. The ablations show that both stereo fusion modules are essential. Removing SDAF lowers performance… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Overview of the inference pipeline for large image resolutions. Left: overlapping patch extraction from stereo input images (IL, IR) using a sliding-window strategy. Middle: patch-wise predictions for user-defined text queries (NCLS) computed by SENSE after normalization. Right: post-processing with cosine blending mask, reconstruction of full-resolution probability maps, softmax normaliza￾tion, and CRF-ba… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Additional qualitative comparison of referring expression semantic segmentation of SENSE-352 in PhraseStereo dataset with CLIPSeg (PC+) [24] method. We show results for diverse expressions, including object-specific (”puddle on platform”), relational (”trees behind van”), and attribute-based (”red and white advertisement”) prompts. Predictions are visualized as sigmoid probability maps, highlighting confid… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Qualitative comparison of zero-shot semantic segmentation on Cityscapes. We show predictions from our models (SENSE￾512 and SENSE-352) with baselines OpenSeg [13] and CLIPSeg (PC+) [23]. quantitative metrics reported in the main paper and further emphasize the improved results achieved by our approach. 10.4. Descriptions as text queries As shown in Tab. 5, the Cityscapes [9] dataset provides de￾tailed desc… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Qualitative comparison of zero-shot semantic segmentation on KITTI 2015. We show predictions from our method (SENSE-352) and baselines OpenSeg [13] and CLIPSeg (PC+) [23]. Method Disparity Estimation Model Time (ms) mIoU IoUFG AP SENSE-352 (Ours) Selective-IGEV† [34] 194.74† 47.2† 57.0† 78.8† HITNet [31] 104.09 47.1 56.8 78.3 MobileStereoNet [28] 76.91 47.1 57.1 78.9 SENSE-512 (Ours) Selective-IGEV† [34] … view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: From class labels to class descriptions on Cityscapes. We compare SENSE-512 predictions when prompted with standard class names and the corresponding natural language descriptions shown in Tab. 5. Despite using descriptive text instead of fixed labels, SENSE-512 achieves segmentation quality comparable to ground truth, demonstrating its ability to interpret scenes through concise lan￾guage prompts while m… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation enables models to segment objects or image regions beyond fixed class sets, offering flexibility in dynamic environments. However, existing methods often rely on single-view images and struggle with spatial precision, especially under occlusions and near object boundaries. We propose SENSE, the first work on Stereo OpEN Vocabulary SEmantic Segmentation, which leverages stereo vision and vision-language models to enhance open-vocabulary semantic segmentation. By incorporating stereo image pairs, we introduce geometric cues that improve spatial reasoning and segmentation accuracy. Trained on the PhraseStereo dataset, our approach achieves strong performance in phrase-grounded tasks and demonstrates generalization in zero-shot settings. On PhraseStereo, we show a +2.9% improvement in Average Precision over the baseline method and +0.76% over the best competing method. SENSE also provides a relative improvement of +3.5% mIoU on Cityscapes and +18% on KITTI compared to the baseline work. By jointly reasoning over semantics and geometry, SENSE supports accurate scene understanding from natural language, essential for autonomous robots and Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 3 minor

Summary. The paper introduces SENSE, the first stereo-based approach to open-vocabulary semantic segmentation. It leverages stereo image pairs to supply geometric cues for improved spatial reasoning and boundary precision, trains on a newly introduced PhraseStereo dataset, and reports gains of +2.9% AP on PhraseStereo over baseline (+0.76% over best competitor), +3.5% mIoU on Cityscapes, and +18% mIoU on KITTI relative to prior single-view baselines. The work also claims zero-shot generalization.

Significance. If the performance gains can be causally attributed to stereo geometric cues rather than dataset or architecture changes, the work would be a meaningful first step in combining stereo vision with vision-language models for open-vocabulary tasks. This is relevant for robotics and ITS applications where stereo cameras are common. The new PhraseStereo dataset is a concrete positive contribution that could support future research.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4 (Experiments)] §4 (Experiments) and associated tables: the central claim that stereo pairs supply geometric cues improving open-vocabulary segmentation is not supported by controlled ablations. No experiments fix the VLM backbone, training data, hyperparameters, and loss while toggling only between stereo pairs and monocular input (or between full stereo and stereo with depth/disparity disabled). The reported deltas (+2.9% AP, +3.5% mIoU, +18% mIoU) therefore cannot be attributed specifically to geometric reasoning; they could arise from the new PhraseStereo training set or the custom stereo+VLM architecture.
  2. [§3 (Method)] §3 (Method): the description of how stereo features are fused with the vision-language model (e.g., disparity estimation, feature concatenation, or attention over depth) is insufficient to assess whether geometric cues are actually used or whether stereo matching errors in occluded/textureless regions are mitigated. No equations or diagrams detail this fusion step, which is load-bearing for the geometric-cue hypothesis.
minor comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract and §1: the phrase 'strong performance in phrase-grounded tasks' is vague; quantitative metrics and comparison to the exact baseline implementation should be stated explicitly.
  2. [§4 (Experiments)] §4: no error bars, standard deviations, or statistical significance tests are mentioned for the reported percentage improvements, making it hard to judge whether the gains are reliable.
  3. [§2 (Related Work)] Missing reference to prior stereo semantic segmentation works (even if closed-vocabulary) and to recent open-vocabulary methods that already incorporate depth or 3D cues.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed review. The comments highlight important areas for strengthening the attribution of gains to stereo cues and improving methodological clarity. We address each major comment below and will incorporate revisions to enhance the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [§4 (Experiments)] §4 (Experiments) and associated tables: the central claim that stereo pairs supply geometric cues improving open-vocabulary segmentation is not supported by controlled ablations. No experiments fix the VLM backbone, training data, hyperparameters, and loss while toggling only between stereo pairs and monocular input (or between full stereo and stereo with depth/disparity disabled). The reported deltas (+2.9% AP, +3.5% mIoU, +18% mIoU) therefore cannot be attributed specifically to geometric reasoning; they could arise from the new PhraseStereo training set or the custom stereo+VLM architecture.

    Authors: We agree that the current set of experiments does not include a fully isolated ablation that holds the VLM backbone, training data, hyperparameters, and loss fixed while toggling only the stereo input. Our reported comparisons are against single-view baselines that use comparable VLMs, and the larger gains on stereo-specific datasets (PhraseStereo, KITTI) are consistent with the value of geometric cues. To directly address the concern, we will add a controlled ablation in the revised §4 that disables the stereo fusion module (or replaces stereo pairs with monocular input) while keeping all other factors identical. This will allow clearer attribution of performance deltas to the geometric reasoning component. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3 (Method)] §3 (Method): the description of how stereo features are fused with the vision-language model (e.g., disparity estimation, feature concatenation, or attention over depth) is insufficient to assess whether geometric cues are actually used or whether stereo matching errors in occluded/textureless regions are mitigated. No equations or diagrams detail this fusion step, which is load-bearing for the geometric-cue hypothesis.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the fusion mechanism in §3 requires additional detail to allow readers to evaluate how geometric cues are integrated and how stereo errors are handled. In the revised manuscript we will expand the method section with explicit equations for disparity estimation and the stereo-VLM feature fusion (including the specific attention or concatenation operations), add a dedicated diagram of the fusion pipeline, and include a short discussion of error mitigation strategies such as confidence-weighted fusion and multi-scale processing for occluded or textureless regions. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical method validated on external datasets without self-referential derivations

full rationale

The paper introduces SENSE as an empirical architecture combining stereo pairs with vision-language models for open-vocabulary segmentation. It reports performance gains on the newly introduced PhraseStereo dataset and on standard external benchmarks (Cityscapes, KITTI) without any equations, derivations, fitted-parameter predictions, or load-bearing self-citations. All claims rest on measured improvements against baselines and competitors rather than any quantity that reduces to its own inputs by construction. The evaluation is therefore self-contained against external data.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the domain assumption that stereo pairs add useful geometric cues for semantic segmentation; no free parameters or invented entities are explicitly introduced in the abstract, though the underlying vision-language model and stereo matching implicitly carry many hyperparameters from prior work.

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  • domain assumption Stereo image pairs provide geometric cues that improve spatial reasoning and segmentation accuracy in open-vocabulary tasks
    Directly invoked to justify the method's advantage over single-view baselines.

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