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One-shot medical image segmentation (MIS) is crucial for medical analysis due to the burden of medical experts on manual annotation. The recent emergence of the segment anything model (SAM) has demonstrated remarkable adaptation in MIS but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-30 Jia Wang , Yunan Mei , Jiarui Liu , Xin Fan

Interactive image segmentation aims at segmenting a target region through a way of human-computer interaction. Recent works based on deep learning have achieved excellent performance, while most of them focus on improving the accuracy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Yuying Hao , Yi Liu , Juncai Peng , Haoyi Xiong , Guowei Chen , Shiyu Tang , Zeyu Chen , Baohua Lai

In this paper, we present a method to interactively create segmentation masks on the basis of user clicks. We pay particular attention to the segmentation of multiple surfaces that are simultaneously present in the same image. Since these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Robin Schön , Julian Lorenz , Katja Ludwig , Daniel Kienzle , Rainer Lienhart

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

Traditional reference segmentation tasks have predominantly focused on silent visual scenes, neglecting the integral role of multimodal perception and interaction in human experiences. In this work, we introduce a novel task called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yaoting Wang , Peiwen Sun , Dongzhan Zhou , Guangyao Li , Honggang Zhang , Di Hu

Referring image segmentation is a fundamental vision-language task that aims to segment out an object referred to by a natural language expression from an image. One of the key challenges behind this task is leveraging the referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Zhao Yang , Jiaqi Wang , Yansong Tang , Kai Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip H. S. Torr

Recent advances in zero-shot referring image segmentation (RIS), driven by models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) and CLIP, have made substantial progress in aligning visual and textual information. Despite these successes, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Ting Liu , Siyuan Li

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision, aimed at partitioning an image into semantically meaningful regions. Referring image segmentation extends this task by using natural language expressions to localize specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Alaa Dalaq , Muzammil Behzad

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment objects in videos guided by natural language descriptions. We propose FS-RVOS, a Transformer-based model with two key components: a cross-modal affinity module and an instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Heng Liu , Guanghui Li , Mingqi Gao , Xiantong Zhen , Feng Zheng , Yang Wang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) excels at general image segmentation but has limited ability to understand natural language, which restricts its direct application in Referring Expression Segmentation (RES). Toward this end, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Wei Tang , Xuejing Liu , Yanpeng Sun , Zechao Li

Referring image segmentation is a typical multi-modal task, which aims at generating a binary mask for referent described in given language expressions. Prior arts adopt a bimodal solution, taking images and languages as two modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Zizhang Li , Mengmeng Wang , Jianbiao Mei , Yong Liu

In this paper, we propose ReSeg-CLIP, a new training-free Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation method for remote sensing data. To compensate for the problems of vision language models, such as CLIP in semantic segmentation caused by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Mohammadreza Heidarianbaei , Mareike Dorozynski , Hubert Kanyamahanga , Max Mehltretter , Franz Rottensteiner

Zero-shot Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) identifies the instance mask that best aligns with a specified referring expression without training and fine-tuning, significantly reducing the labor-intensive annotation process. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yuji Wang , Jingchen Ni , Yong Liu , Chun Yuan , Yansong Tang

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

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

Recent Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) demonstrate promising capabilities in unifying visual understanding and generative modeling, enabling both accurate content understanding and flexible editing. However, current approaches treat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Fan Yang , Yousong Zhu , Xin Li , Yufei Zhan , Hongyin Zhao , Shurong Zheng , Yaowei Wang , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Despite the progress of image segmentation for accurate visual entity segmentation, completing the diverse requirements of image editing applications for different-level region-of-interest selections remains unsolved. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Lu Qi , Jason Kuen , Weidong Guo , Jiuxiang Gu , Zhe Lin , Bo Du , Yu Xu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

As a novel and challenging task, referring segmentation combines computer vision and natural language processing to localize and segment objects based on textual descriptions. While referring image segmentation (RIS) has been extensively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Rui Li , Xiaowei Zhao

Referring image segmentation aims to segment the objects referred by a natural language expression. Previous methods usually focus on designing an implicit and recurrent feature interaction mechanism to fuse the visual-linguistic features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Ya Jing , Tao Kong , Wei Wang , Liang Wang , Lei Li , Tieniu Tan

We present Modular interactive VOS (MiVOS) framework which decouples interaction-to-mask and mask propagation, allowing for higher generalizability and better performance. Trained separately, the interaction module converts user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Ho Kei Cheng , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang