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Referring image segmentation (RIS) requires dense vision-language interactions between visual pixels and textual words to segment objects based on a given description. However, commonly adapted dual-encoders in RIS, e.g., Swin transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Seonghoon Yu , Ilchae Jung , Byeongju Han , Taeoh Kim , Yunho Kim , Dongyoon Wee , Jeany Son

We consider the problem of referring segmentation in images and videos with natural language. Given an input image (or video) and a referring expression, the goal is to segment the entity referred by the expression in the image or video. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Linwei Ye , Mrigank Rochan , Zhi Liu , Xiaoqin Zhang , Yang Wang

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) requires identifying objects from images based on textual descriptions. We observe that existing methods significantly underperform on motion-related queries compared to appearance-based ones. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Chaeyun Kim , Seunghoon Yi , Yejin Kim , Yohan Jo , Joonseok Lee

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) aims to segment target objects expressed in natural language within a scene at the pixel level. Various recent RIS models have achieved state-of-the-art performance by generating contextual tokens to model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Minhyeok Lee , Dogyoon Lee , Jungho Lee , Suhwan Cho , Heeseung Choi , Ig-Jae Kim , Sangyoun Lee

Recent image segmentation models have advanced to segment images into high-quality masks for visual entities, and yet they cannot provide comprehensive semantic understanding for complex queries based on both language and vision. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Shengcao Cao , Zijun Wei , Jason Kuen , Kangning Liu , Lingzhi Zhang , Jiuxiang Gu , HyunJoon Jung , Liang-Yan Gui , Yu-Xiong Wang

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) is a fundamental vision-language task that outputs object masks based on text descriptions. Many works have achieved considerable progress for RIS, including different fusion method designs. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Jianzong Wu , Xiangtai Li , Xia Li , Henghui Ding , Yunhai Tong , Dacheng Tao

Text-to-image retrieval (TIR) aims to find relevant images based on a textual query, but existing approaches are primarily based on whole-image captions and lack interpretability. Meanwhile, referring expression segmentation (RES) enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Li-Cheng Shen , Jih-Kang Hsieh , Wei-Hua Li , Chu-Song Chen

Referring image segmentation aims to segment a referent via a natural linguistic expression.Due to the distinct data properties between text and image, it is challenging for a network to well align text and pixel-level features. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Zhaoqing Wang , Yu Lu , Qiang Li , Xunqiang Tao , Yandong Guo , Mingming Gong , Tongliang Liu

Referring image segmentation aims to segment the target object referred by a natural language expression. However, previous methods rely on the strong assumption that one sentence must describe one target in the image, which is often not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yutao Hu , Qixiong Wang , Wenqi Shao , Enze Xie , Zhenguo Li , Jungong Han , Ping Luo

Referring remote sensing image segmentation (RRSIS) is a novel visual task in remote sensing images segmentation, which aims to segment objects based on a given text description, with great significance in practical application. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Leideng Shi , Juan Zhang

Multimodal semantic communication has gained widespread attention due to its ability to enhance downstream task performance. A key challenge in such systems is the effective fusion of features from different modalities, which requires the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Haoshuo Zhang , Yufei Bo , Hongwei Zhang , Meixia Tao

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVS) aims to segment images of arbitrary categories specified by class labels or captions. However, most previous best-performing methods, whether pixel grouping methods or region recognition methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yuan Wang , Rui Sun , Naisong Luo , Yuwen Pan , Tianzhu Zhang

Interactive segmentation enables users to segment as needed by providing cues of objects, which introduces human-computer interaction for many fields, such as image editing and medical image analysis. Typically, massive and expansive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Kehan Li , Yian Zhao , Zhennan Wang , Zesen Cheng , Peng Jin , Xiangyang Ji , Li Yuan , Chang Liu , Jie Chen

Multimodal semantic communication has great potential to enhance downstream task performance by integrating complementary information across modalities. This paper introduces ProMSC-MIS, a novel Prompt-based Multimodal Semantic…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Haoshuo Zhang , Yufei Bo , Meixia Tao

Referring image segmentation (RIS) aims to segment an object mentioned in natural language from an image. The main challenge is text-to-pixel fine-grained correlation. In the previous methods, the final results are obtained by convolutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yichen Yan , Xingjian He , Wenxuan Wang , Sihan Chen , Jing Liu

Surgical image segmentation is essential for robot-assisted surgery and intraoperative guidance. However, existing methods are constrained to predefined categories, produce one-shot predictions without adaptive refinement, and lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Ange Lou , Yamin Li , Qi Chang , Nan Xi , Luyuan Xie , Zichao Li , Tianyu Luan

Recently, Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (RRSIS) has aroused wide attention. To handle drastic scale variation of remote targets, existing methods only use the full image as input and nest the saliency-preferring techniques of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Jiaxing Yang , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Given a language expression, referring remote sensing image segmentation (RRSIS) aims to identify ground objects and assign pixel-wise labels within the imagery. The one of key challenges for this task is to capture discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Sen Lei , Xinyu Xiao , Tianlin Zhang , Heng-Chao Li , Zhenwei Shi , Qing Zhu

Within this work, we introduce LIMIS: The first purely language-based interactive medical image segmentation model. We achieve this by adapting Grounded SAM to the medical domain and designing a language-based model interaction strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Lena Heinemann , Alexander Jaus , Zdravko Marinov , Moon Kim , Maria Francesca Spadea , Jens Kleesiek , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) is an advanced vision-language task that involves identifying and segmenting objects within an image as described by free-form text descriptions. While previous studies focused on aligning visual and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Minhyun Lee , Seungho Lee , Song Park , Dongyoon Han , Byeongho Heo , Hyunjung Shim