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Referring segmentation aims to generate a segmentation mask for the target instance indicated by a natural language expression. There are typically two kinds of existing methods: one-stage methods that directly perform segmentation on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Chang Liu , Xudong Jiang , Henghui Ding

Referring expression segmentation (RES), a task that involves localizing specific instance-level objects based on free-form linguistic descriptions, has emerged as a crucial frontier in human-AI interaction. It demands an intricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Ying Zang , Chenglong Fu , Runlong Cao , Didi Zhu , Min Zhang , Wenjun Hu , Lanyun Zhu , Tianrun Chen

Many studies focus on data annotation techniques for training effective PRMs. However, current methods encounter a significant issue when applied to long CoT reasoning processes: they tend to focus solely on the first incorrect step and all…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Zhaohui Yang , Chenghua He , Xiaowen Shi , Linjing Li , Qiyue Yin , Shihong Deng , Daxin Jiang

Referring expressions are natural language constructions used to identify particular objects within a scene. In this paper, we propose a unified framework for the tasks of referring expression comprehension and generation. Our model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Licheng Yu , Hao Tan , Mohit Bansal , Tamara L. Berg

Phrase Grounding aims to detect and localize objects in images that are referred to and are queried by natural language phrases. Phrase grounding finds applications in tasks such as Visual Dialog, Visual Search and Image-text co-reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Rama Kovvuri , Ram Nevatia

Large language models (LLMs) face significant challenges when balancing multiple high-level objectives, such as generating coherent, relevant, and high-quality responses while maintaining efficient task adaptation across diverse tasks. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Yupeng Chang , Yi Chang , Yuan Wu

Most of the existing work in one-stage referring expression comprehension (REC) mainly focuses on multi-modal fusion and reasoning, while the influence of other factors in this task lacks in-depth exploration. To fill this gap, we conduct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Gen Luo , Yiyi Zhou , Jiamu Sun , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

We improve one-stage visual grounding by addressing current limitations on grounding long and complex queries. Existing one-stage methods encode the entire language query as a single sentence embedding vector, e.g., taking the embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Zhengyuan Yang , Tianlang Chen , Liwei Wang , Jiebo Luo

The field of Language Reasoning Models (LRMs) has been very active over the past few years with advances in training and inference techniques enabling LRMs to reason longer, and more accurately. However, a growing body of studies show that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yannis Belkhiter , Seshu Tirupathi , Giulio Zizzo , John D. Kelleher

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES), which is aimed at localizing and segmenting the target according to the given language expression, has drawn increasing attention. Existing methods jointly consider the localization and segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Hui Li , Mingjie Sun , Jimin Xiao , Eng Gee Lim , Yao Zhao

Recent advances in deep learning have brought significant progress in visual grounding tasks such as language-guided video object segmentation. However, collecting large datasets for these tasks is expensive in terms of annotation time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Ioannis Kazakos , Carles Ventura , Miriam Bellver , Carina Silberer , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

The task of referring relationships is to localize subject and object entities in an image satisfying a relationship query, which is given in the form of \texttt{<subject, predicate, object>}. This requires simultaneous localization of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Chuanzi He , Haidong Zhu , Jiyang Gao , Kan Chen , Ram Nevatia

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly relied upon for solving complex reasoning tasks in domains such as mathematics, logic, and multi-step question answering. A growing line of work seeks to improve reasoning quality by scaling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Seyyed Saeid Cheshmi , Azal Ahmad Khan , Xinran Wang , Zirui Liu , Ali Anwar

Process Reward Models (PRMs) aim to improve multi-step reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs) by supervising intermediate steps and identifying errors. However, building effective PRMs remains challenging due to the lack of scalable,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yao Zhang , Yu Wu , Haowei Zhang , Weiguo Li , Haokun Chen , Jingpei Wu , Guohao Li , Zhen Han , Volker Tresp

Multi-modal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (MMRAG) enables highly credible generation by integrating external multi-modal knowledge, thus demonstrating impressive performance in complex multi-modal scenarios. However, existing MMRAG methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Shengwei Zhao , Jingwen Yao , Sitong Wei , Linhai Xu , Yuying Liu , Dong Zhang , Zhiqiang Tian , Shaoyi Du

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

Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation provides a flexible and fine-grained framework for remote sensing scene analysis via vision-language collaborative interpretation. Current approaches predominantly utilize a three-stage pipeline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Keyan Chen , Chenyang Liu , Bowen Chen , Jiafan Zhang , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

Grounded Situation Recognition (GSR), i.e., recognizing the salient activity (or verb) category in an image (e.g., buying) and detecting all corresponding semantic roles (e.g., agent and goods), is an essential step towards "human-like"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Meng Wei , Long Chen , Wei Ji , Xiaoyu Yue , Tat-Seng Chua

Generating with citations is crucial for trustworthy Large Language Models (LLMs), yet even advanced LLMs often produce mismatched or irrelevant citations. Existing methods over-optimize citation fidelity while overlooking relevance to the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yixing Peng , Licheng Zhang , Shancheng Fang , Yi Liu , Peijian Gu , Quan Wang

The goal of object detection is to determine the class and location of objects in an image. This paper proposes a novel anchor-free, two-stage framework which first extracts a number of object proposals by finding potential corner keypoint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Kaiwen Duan , Lingxi Xie , Honggang Qi , Song Bai , Qingming Huang , Qi Tian