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Referring expressions usually describe an object using properties of the object and relationships of the object with other objects. We propose a technique that integrates context between objects to understand referring expressions. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Varun K. Nagaraja , Vlad I. Morariu , Larry S. Davis

Grounding referring expressions aims to locate in an image an object referred to by a natural language expression. The linguistic structure of a referring expression provides a layout of reasoning over the visual contents, and it is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Sibei Yang , Guanbin Li , Yizhou Yu

Referring image segmentation is an advanced semantic segmentation task where target is not a predefined class but is described in natural language. Most of existing methods for this task rely heavily on convolutional neural networks, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Namyup Kim , Dongwon Kim , Cuiling Lan , Wenjun Zeng , Suha Kwak

The goal of this work is to segment the objects in an image that are referred to by a sequence of linguistic descriptions (referring expressions). We propose a deep neural network with recurrent layers that output a sequence of binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Alba Herrera-Palacio , Carles Ventura , Carina Silberer , Ionut-Teodor Sorodoc , Gemma Boleda , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Existing visual grounding benchmarks primarily evaluate alignment between image regions and literal referring expressions, where models can often succeed by matching a prominent named category. We explore a complementary and more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Ruozhen He , Nisarg A. Shah , Qihua Dong , Zilin Xiao , Jaywon Koo , Vicente Ordonez

The attention mechanism plays an important role in the machine reading comprehension (MRC) model. Here, we describe a pipeline for building an MRC model with a pretrained language model and visualizing the effect of each attention zone in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yiming Cui , Wei-Nan Zhang , Ting Liu

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) and Referring Expression Generation (REG) are fundamental tasks in multimodal understanding, supporting precise object localization through natural language. However, existing REC and REG datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Shilan Zhang , Jirui Huang , Ruilin Yao , Cong Wang , Yaxiong Chen , Peng Xu , Shengwu Xiong

Traditional semantic image search methods aim to retrieve images that match the meaning of the text query. However, these methods typically search for objects on the whole image, without considering the localization of objects within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Silvan Ferreira , Allan Martins , Ivanovitch Silva

The current models of image representation based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have shown tremendous performance in image retrieval. Such models are inspired by the information flow along the visual pathway in the human visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Zakaria Laskar , Juho Kannala

In this paper, we address the problem of referring expression comprehension in videos, which is challenging due to complex expression and scene dynamics. Unlike previous methods which solve the problem in multiple stages (i.e., tracking,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Sijie Song , Xudong Lin , Jiaying Liu , Zongming Guo , Shih-Fu Chang

Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE) is a navigation task that requires an agent to follow a language instruction in a realistic environment. The understanding of environments is a crucial part of the VLN-CE…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Ting Wang , Zongkai Wu , Feiyu Yao , Donglin Wang

Referring image segmentation segments an image from a language expression. With the aim of producing high-quality masks, existing methods often adopt iterative learning approaches that rely on RNNs or stacked attention layers to refine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Zhao Yang , Jiaqi Wang , Yansong Tang , Kai Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip H. S. Torr

Referring expression segmentation (RES) aims at segmenting the entities' masks that match the descriptive language expression. While traditional RES methods primarily address object-level grounding, real-world scenarios demand a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Jing Liu , Wenxuan Wang , Yisi Zhang , Yepeng Tang , Xingjian He , Longteng Guo , Tongtian Yue , Xinlong Wang

The success of graph embeddings or node representation learning in a variety of downstream tasks, such as node classification, link prediction, and recommendation systems, has led to their popularity in recent years. Representation learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Saba A. Al-Sayouri , Danai Koutra , Evangelos E. Papalexakis , Sarah S. Lam

Referring expression comprehension (REC) is a vision-language task to locate a target object in an image based on a language expression. Fully fine-tuning general-purpose pre-trained vision-language foundation models for REC yields…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Xuyang Liu , Ting Liu , Siteng Huang , Yi Xin , Yue Hu , Quanjun Yin , Donglin Wang , Yuanyuan Wu , Honggang Chen

Referring detection refers to locate the target referred by natural languages, which has recently attracted growing research interests. However, existing datasets are limited to ground images with large object centered in relative small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Guyue Hu , Hao Song , Yuxing Tong , Duzhi Yuan , Dengdi Sun , Aihua Zheng , Chenglong Li , Jin Tang

Visual Commonsense Reasoning (VCR) remains a significant yet challenging research problem in the realm of visual reasoning. A VCR model generally aims at answering a textual question regarding an image, followed by the rationale prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zhenyang Li , Yangyang Guo , Kejie Wang , Fan Liu , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

Existing Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) methods typically require expensive pixel-level or box-level annotations for supervision. In this paper, we observe that the referring texts used in RIS already provide sufficient information to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Fang Liu , Yuhao Liu , Yuqiu Kong , Ke Xu , Lihe Zhang , Baocai Yin , Gerhard Hancke , Rynson Lau

Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC) is a key step towards successful human-machine interaction. While the field has seen tremendous advancement in the last few years, new applications and implementation scenarios present novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Patrícia Pereira , Helena Moniz , Joao Paulo Carvalho

Micro-expression recognition (\textbf{MER}) has attracted lots of researchers' attention in a decade. However, occlusion will occur for MER in real-world scenarios. This paper deeply investigates an interesting but unexplored challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Qirong Mao , Ling Zhou , Wenming Zheng , Xiuyan Shao , Xiaohua Huang