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JVLGS

Joint Vision–Language Gas Leak Segmentation

Xinlong Zhao, Qixiang Pang, Shan Du

The Visual Computer, 2026

Video SegmentationVision–LanguageIndustrial Inspection
JVLGS framework for joint vision-language gas leak segmentation

Framework overview from the official JVLGS repository.

01 — Overview

Overview

Gas plumes are transparent, deform continuously, and often blend into complex backgrounds. JVLGS brings language guidance into video segmentation so the model can combine visual motion with semantic descriptions of the target.

The framework is evaluated in conventional supervised training as well as limited-data settings where language guidance can provide useful additional context.

02 — Contributions

Key Contributions

  • 01

    Combines visual video features and text prompts in a unified gas-leak segmentation framework.

  • 02

    Captures spatial and temporal evidence to distinguish faint moving plumes from background appearance changes.

  • 03

    Adds adaptive post-processing to suppress false-positive regions and stabilize predicted masks.

03 — Method

Method

JVLGS extracts complementary features from consecutive video frames and a language prompt, fuses them through a joint vision–language architecture, and applies temporal-spatial reasoning before producing the segmentation mask. Adaptive post-processing removes unlikely detections.

04 — Evaluation

Results

The reported experiments show competitive gas-leak segmentation in fully supervised settings and useful generalization when only a small amount of labeled training data is available.

05 — Reference

Citation

BibTeX citation
@Article{Zhao_2026_JVLGS,
  author  = {Zhao, Xinlong and Pang, Qixiang and Du, Shan},
  title   = {JVLGS: Joint Vision--Language Gas Leak Segmentation},
  journal = {The Visual Computer},
  year    = {2026},
  volume  = {42},
  number  = {10},
  article = {428},
  doi     = {10.1007/s00371-026-04591-y}
}