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Object detection or localization is an incremental step in progression from coarse to fine digital image inference. It not only provides the classes of the image objects, but also provides the location of the image objects which have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Abdul Mueed Hafiz , Ghulam Mohiuddin Bhat

The task of few-shot image classification and segmentation (FS-CS) requires the classification and segmentation of target objects in a query image, given only a few examples of the target classes. We introduce a method that utilises large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Tian Meng , Yang Tao , Wuliang Yin

Reference Expression Segmentation (RES) aims to segment image regions specified by referring expressions and has become popular with the rise of multimodal large models (MLLMs). While MLLMs excel in semantic understanding, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Jingchao Wang , Zhijian Wu , Dingjiang Huang , Yefeng Zheng , Hong Wang

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment an object of interest throughout a video based on a language description. The prominent challenge lies in aligning static text with dynamic visual content, particularly when objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Bingrui Zhao , Lin Yuanbo Wu , Xiangtian Fan , Deyin Liu , Lu Zhang , Ruyi He , Jialie Shen , Ximing Li

Weakly-supervised semantic segmentation under image tags supervision is a challenging task as it directly associates high-level semantic to low-level appearance. To bridge this gap, in this paper, we propose an iterative bottom-up and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Xiang Wang , Shaodi You , Xi Li , Huimin Ma

The referring video object segmentation task (RVOS) aims to segment object instances in a given video referred by a language expression in all video frames. Due to the requirement of understanding cross-modal semantics within individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Leilei Cao , Zhuang Li , Bo Yan , Feng Zhang , Fengliang Qi , Yuchen Hu , Hongbin Wang

In this paper, we consider the problem of open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVS), which aims to segment objects of arbitrary classes instead of pre-defined, closed-set categories. The main contributions are as follows: First, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Jilan Xu , Junlin Hou , Yuejie Zhang , Rui Feng , Yi Wang , Yu Qiao , Weidi Xie

In this paper, we study a challenging task of zero-shot referring image segmentation. This task aims to identify the instance mask that is most related to a referring expression without training on pixel-level annotations. Previous research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Yucheng Suo , Linchao Zhu , Yi Yang

Referring image segmentation aims to segment the image region of interest according to the given language expression, which is a typical multi-modal task. Existing methods either adopt the pixel classification-based or the learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Zhichao Wei , Xiaohao Chen , Mingqiang Chen , Siyu Zhu

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment video objects with the guidance of natural language reference. Previous methods typically tackle RVOS through directly grounding linguistic reference over the image lattice. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Chen Liang , Yu Wu , Tianfei Zhou , Wenguan Wang , Zongxin Yang , Yunchao Wei , Yi Yang

3D referring segmentation is an emerging and challenging vision-language task that aims to segment the object described by a natural language expression in a point cloud scene. The key challenge behind this task is vision-language feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Shuting He , Henghui Ding

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) aims at segmenting the target object from an image referred by one given natural language expression. The diverse and flexible expressions as well as complex visual contents in the images raise the RIS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Yang Jiao , Zequn Jie , Weixin Luo , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang , Xiaolin Wei , Lin Ma

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) is a core vision-language segmentation task that enables pixel-level understanding of targets via free-form linguistic expressions, supporting critical applications such as human-robot interaction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yihao Wang , Jusheng Zhang , Ziyi Tang , Keze Wang , Meng Yang

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) aims to segment the object in an image uniquely referred to by a natural language expression. However, RIS training often contains hard-to-align and instance-specific visual signals; optimizing on such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Tongfei Chen , Shuo Yang , Yuguang Yang , Linlin Yang , Runtang Guo , Changbai Li , He Long , Chunyu Xie , Dawei Leng , Baochang Zhang

This paper explores the weakly-supervised referring image segmentation (WRIS) problem, and focuses on a challenging setup where target localization is learned directly from image-text pairs. We note that the input text description typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Zaiquan Yang , Yuhao Liu , Jiaying Lin , Gerhard Hancke , Rynson W. H. Lau

We present REM, a framework for segmenting a wide range of concepts in video that can be described through natural language. Our method leverages the universal visual-language mapping learned by video diffusion models on Internet-scale data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Anurag Bagchi , Zhipeng Bao , Yu-Xiong Wang , Pavel Tokmakov , Martial Hebert

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has gained significant attention for its impressive performance in image segmentation. However, it lacks proficiency in referring video object segmentation (RVOS) due to the need for precise user-interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yonglin Li , Jing Zhang , Xiao Teng , Long Lan , Xinwang Liu

Existing weakly-supervised semantic segmentation methods using image-level annotations typically rely on initial responses to locate object regions. However, such response maps generated by the classification network usually focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Yu-Ting Chang , Qiaosong Wang , Wei-Chih Hung , Robinson Piramuthu , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Ming-Hsuan Yang

We present a new, embarrassingly simple approach to instance segmentation in images. Compared to many other dense prediction tasks, e.g., semantic segmentation, it is the arbitrary number of instances that have made instance segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Xinlong Wang , Tao Kong , Chunhua Shen , Yuning Jiang , Lei Li

Semi-supervised video object segmentation is a task of segmenting the target object in a video sequence given only a mask annotation in the first frame. The limited information available makes it an extremely challenging task. Most previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Yunyao Mao , Ning Wang , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li