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Referring expression comprehension (REC) and segmentation (RES) are two highly-related tasks, which both aim at identifying the referent according to a natural language expression. In this paper, we propose a novel Multi-task Collaborative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Gen Luo , Yiyi Zhou , Xiaoshuai Sun , Liujuan Cao , Chenglin Wu , Cheng Deng , Rongrong Ji

We study the understanding of embodied reference: One agent uses both language and gesture to refer to an object to another agent in a shared physical environment. Of note, this new visual task requires understanding multimodal cues with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Yixin Chen , Qing Li , Deqian Kong , Yik Lun Kei , Song-Chun Zhu , Tao Gao , Yixin Zhu , Siyuan Huang

The key of referring expression comprehension lies in capturing the cross-modal visual-linguistic relevance. Existing works typically model the cross-modal relevance in each image, where the anchor object/expression and their positive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Fuhai Chen , Xuri Ge , Xiaoshuai Sun , Yue Gao , Jianzhuang Liu , Fufeng Chen , Wenjie Li

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is a vision-language task that localizes a specific image region based on a textual description. Existing REC benchmarks primarily evaluate perceptual capabilities and lack interpretable scoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Tianyi Gao , Hao Li , Han Fang , Xin Wei , Xiaodong Dong , Hongbo Sun , Ye Yuan , Zhongjiang He , Jinglin Xu , Jingmin Xin , Hao Sun

This paper addresses the problem of 3D referring expression comprehension (REC) in autonomous driving scenario, which aims to ground a natural language to the targeted region in LiDAR point clouds. Previous approaches for REC usually focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Wenhao Cheng , Junbo Yin , Wei Li , Ruigang Yang , Jianbing Shen

Image-text retrieval is a central problem for understanding the semantic relationship between vision and language, and serves as the basis for various visual and language tasks. Most previous works either simply learn coarse-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Chong Liu , Yuqi Zhang , Hongsong Wang , Weihua Chen , Fan Wang , Yan Huang , Yi-Dong Shen , Liang Wang

Referring image segmentation (RIS) aims to segment a particular region based on a language expression prompt. Existing methods incorporate linguistic features into visual features and obtain multi-modal features for mask decoding. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Mengxi Zhang , Yiming Liu , Xiangjun Yin , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang

Reference Expression Generation (REG) and Comprehension (REC) are two highly correlated tasks. Modeling REG and REC simultaneously for utilizing the relation between them is a promising way to improve both. However, the problem of distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Duo Zheng , Tao Kong , Ya Jing , Jiaan Wang , Xiaojie Wang

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) aims to localize the target objects specified by free-form natural language descriptions in images. While state-of-the-art methods achieve impressive performance, they perform a dense perception of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Wei Su , Peihan Miao , Huanzhang Dou , Xi Li

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) aims to segment an object described in natural language from an image, with the main challenge being a text-to-pixel correlation. Previous methods typically rely on single-modality features, such as vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yichen Yan , Xingjian He , Sihan Chen , Shichen Lu , Jing Liu

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is a crucial cross-modal task that objectively evaluates the capabilities of language understanding, image comprehension, and language-to-image grounding. Consequently, it serves as an ideal testing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Junzhuo Liu , Xuzheng Yang , Weiwei Li , Peng Wang

Image-text retrieval has developed rapidly in recent years. However, it is still a challenge in remote sensing due to visual-semantic imbalance, which leads to incorrect matching of non-semantic visual and textual features. To solve this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Qing Ma , Jiancheng Pan , Cong Bai

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC), which aims to ground a local visual region via natural language, is a task that heavily relies on multimodal alignment. Most existing methods utilize powerful pre-trained models to transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Ting Liu , Zunnan Xu , Yue Hu , Liangtao Shi , Zhiqiang Wang , Quanjun Yin

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) links language to region level visual perception. Standard benchmarks (RefCOCO, RefCOCO+, RefCOCOg) have progressed rapidly with multimodal LLMs but remain weak tests of visual reasoning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Qihua Dong , Kuo Yang , Lin Ju , Handong Zhao , Yitian Zhang , Yizhou Wang , Huimin Zeng , Jianglin Lu , Yun Fu

We consider the problem of referring image segmentation. Given an input image and a natural language expression, the goal is to segment the object referred by the language expression in the image. Existing works in this area treat the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Linwei Ye , Mrigank Rochan , Zhi Liu , Yang Wang

Referring image segmentation (RIS) aims to segment objects in an image conditioning on free-from text descriptions. Despite the overwhelming progress, it still remains challenging for current approaches to perform well on cases with various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Yajie Liu , Pu Ge , Haoxiang Ma , Shichao Fan , Qingjie Liu , Di Huang , Yunhong Wang

Referring image segmentation aims at segmenting the foreground masks of the entities that can well match the description given in the natural language expression. Previous approaches tackle this problem using implicit feature interaction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Shaofei Huang , Tianrui Hui , Si Liu , Guanbin Li , Yunchao Wei , Jizhong Han , Luoqi Liu , Bo Li

Given a natural language expression and an image/video, the goal of referring segmentation is to produce the pixel-level masks of the entities described by the subject of the expression. Previous approaches tackle this problem by implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Si Liu , Tianrui Hui , Shaofei Huang , Yunchao Wei , Bo Li , Guanbin Li

Emotion recognition is a crucial task for human conversation understanding. It becomes more challenging with the notion of multimodal data, e.g., language, voice, and facial expressions. As a typical solution, the global- and the local…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Cam-Van Thi Nguyen , Anh-Tuan Mai , The-Son Le , Hai-Dang Kieu , Duc-Trong Le

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) is a widely explored multi-modal task, which endeavors to segment the pre-existing object within a single image with a given linguistic expression. However, in broader real-world scenarios, it is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yixuan Wu , Zhao Zhang , Xie Chi , Feng Zhu , Rui Zhao