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VTOS framework learns to orchestrate vision tools via adaptive search

Researchers have developed VTOS, a novel framework for orchestrating vision tools that adaptively searches for solutions and observers. This approach co-searches executable solution programs, which compose tools like Grounding DINO and SAM, alongside observer programs that diagnose failures and provide feedback. VTOS utilizes a shared knowledge base to guide its search, outperforming static tool pipelines and other agentic visual-programming baselines in complex scenarios such as dense object counting and out-of-distribution segmentation. AI

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VTOS framework learns to orchestrate vision tools via adaptive search

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Jinchao Ge, Lingqiao Liu, Shuwen Zhao, Lei Wang ·

    VTOS: Learning to Orchestrate Vision Tools by Co-Searching Solutions and Observers

    arXiv:2606.20728v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision foundation tools such as open-vocabulary detectors, segmentation models, and post-processing operators are powerful building blocks for computer vision, but their effectiveness depends heavily on how they are orches…