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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

Referring segmentation aims to segment the target objects in images or videos based on the textual query. Despite remarkable progress over the past years, existing works always assume that the user-provided queries are already precise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yuting Yang , Haichao Jiang , Tianming Liang , Quan Zhang , Jian-Fang Hu

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in clinical medicine, serving as a key tool for auxiliary diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. However, traditional segmentation methods such as U-Net are often limited by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Gaoyu Chen , Haixia Pan

Cross-modal retrieval (CMR) is a fundamental task in multimedia research, focused on retrieving semantically relevant targets across different modalities. While traditional CMR methods match text and image via embedding-based similarity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Haoxuan Li , Yi Bin , Yunshan Ma , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang , See-Kiong Ng , Tat-Seng Chua

Cross-modal retrieval methods build a common representation space for samples from multiple modalities, typically from the vision and the language domains. For images and their captions, the multiplicity of the correspondences makes the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Sanghyuk Chun , Seong Joon Oh , Rafael Sampaio de Rezende , Yannis Kalantidis , Diane Larlus

This paper studies co-segmenting the common semantic object in a set of images. Existing works either rely on carefully engineered networks to mine the implicit semantic information in visual features or require extra data (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Xin Duan , Yan Yang , Liyuan Pan , Xiabi Liu

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

Modern supervised semantic segmentation methods are usually finetuned based on the supervised or self-supervised models pre-trained on ImageNet. Recent work shows that transferring the knowledge from CLIP to semantic segmentation via prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Chaohui Yu , Qiang Zhou , Zhibin Wang , Fan Wang

Referring image segmentation aims to segment the target object described by a given natural language expression. Typically, referring expressions contain complex relationships between the target and its surrounding objects. The main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Bo Chen , Zhiwei Hu , Zhilong Ji , Jinfeng Bai , Wangmeng Zuo

The task in referring expression comprehension is to localise the object instance in an image described by a referring expression phrased in natural language. As a language-to-vision matching task, the key to this problem is to learn a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Peng Wang , Qi Wu , Jiewei Cao , Chunhua Shen , Lianli Gao , Anton van den Hengel

Video semantic segmentation is active in recent years benefited from the great progress of image semantic segmentation. For such a task, the per-frame image segmentation is generally unacceptable in practice due to high computation cost. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Jiafan Zhuang , Zilei Wang , Bingke Wang

Multi-modality image fusion aims at fusing modality-specific (complementarity) and modality-shared (correlation) information from multiple source images. To tackle the problem of the neglect of inter-feature relationships, high-frequency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Xiaoli Zhang , Liying Wang , Libo Zhao , Xiongfei Li , Siwei Ma

Different from universal object detection, referring expression comprehension (REC) aims to locate specific objects referred to by natural language expressions. The expression provides high-level concepts of relevant visual and contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Wei Su , Peihan Miao , Huanzhang Dou , Yongjian Fu , Xi Li

Text-based person search aims to retrieve the matched pedestrians from a large-scale image database according to the text description. The core difficulty of this task is how to extract effective details from pedestrian images and texts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Wei Shen , Ming Fang , Yuxia Wang , Jiafeng Xiao , Diping Li , Huangqun Chen , Ling Xu , Weifeng Zhang

Procedural Multimodal Documents (PMDs) organize textual instructions and corresponding images step by step. Comprehending PMDs and inducing their representations for the downstream reasoning tasks is designated as Procedural MultiModal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Huibin Zhang , Zhengkun Zhang , Yao Zhang , Jun Wang , Yufan Li , Ning jiang , Xin wei , Zhenglu Yang

Audio-guided Video Object Segmentation (A-VOS) and Referring Video Object Segmentation (R-VOS) are two highly related tasks that both aim to segment specific objects from video sequences according to expression prompts. However, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Jiajun Chen , Jiacheng Lin , Guojin Zhong , Haolong Fu , Ke Nai , Kailun Yang , Zhiyong Li

Referring image segmentation aims to predict the foreground mask of the object referred by a natural language sentence. Multimodal context of the sentence is crucial to distinguish the referent from the background. Existing methods either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Tianrui Hui , Si Liu , Shaofei Huang , Guanbin Li , Sansi Yu , Faxi Zhang , Jizhong Han

The classical human-robot interface in uncalibrated image-based visual servoing (UIBVS) relies on either human annotations or semantic segmentation with categorical labels. Both methods fail to match natural human communication and convey…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Chen Jiang , Yuchen Yang , Martin Jagersand

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) aims to segment a target object described by a natural language expression. Existing methods have evolved by leveraging the vision information into the language tokens. To more effectively exploit visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yubin Cho , Hyunwoo Yu , Kyeongbo Kong , Kyomin Sohn , Bongjoon Hyun , Suk-Ju Kang

As an important step towards visual reasoning, visual grounding (e.g., phrase localization, referring expression comprehension/segmentation) has been widely explored Previous approaches to referring expression comprehension (REC) or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Muchen Li , Leonid Sigal