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Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) aims to localize the target objects specified by free-form natural language descriptions in images. While state-of-the-art methods achieve impressive performance, they perform a dense perception of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Wei Su , Peihan Miao , Huanzhang Dou , Xi Li

Recently, Space-Time Memory Network (STM) based methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance in semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS). A crucial problem in this task is how to model the dependency both among different frames…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Jianbiao Mei , Mengmeng Wang , Yeneng Lin , Yi Yuan , Yong Liu

Referring image segmentation aims to segment the target referent in an image conditioning on a natural language expression. Existing one-stage methods employ per-pixel classification frameworks, which attempt straightforwardly to align…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jiajin Tang , Ge Zheng , Cheng Shi , Sibei Yang

Referring expressions are natural language descriptions that identify a particular object within a scene and are widely used in our daily conversations. In this work, we focus on segmenting the object in an image specified by a referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Yi-Wen Chen , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Tiantian Wang , Yen-Yu Lin , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has attracted widespread attention for its superior interactive segmentation capabilities with visual prompts while lacking further exploration of text prompts. In this paper, we empirically investigate what…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yuxuan Zhang , Tianheng Cheng , Lianghui Zhu , Rui Hu , Lei Liu , Heng Liu , Longjin Ran , Xiaoxin Chen , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

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

Visual segmentation seeks to partition images, video frames, or point clouds into multiple segments or groups. This technique has numerous real-world applications, such as autonomous driving, image editing, robot sensing, and medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Xiangtai Li , Henghui Ding , Haobo Yuan , Wenwei Zhang , Jiangmiao Pang , Guangliang Cheng , Kai Chen , Ziwei Liu , Chen Change Loy

Semantic segmentation assigns labels to pixels in images, a critical yet challenging task in computer vision. Convolutional methods, although capturing local dependencies well, struggle with long-range relationships. Vision Transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mian Muhammad Naeem Abid , Nancy Mehta , Zongwei Wu , Radu Timofte

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

Accurate segmentation of organs and lesions in medical images is essential for clinical applications including diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment planning. While Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown impressive segmentation performance,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Jin Yang , Xiaobing Yu , Peijie Qiu

Vision language tasks, such as answering questions about or generating captions that describe an image, are difficult tasks for computers to perform. A relatively recent body of research has adapted the pretrained transformer architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Clayton Fields , Casey Kennington

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation attempts to classify and outline objects in an image using arbitrary text labels, including those unseen during training. Self-supervised learning resolves numerous visual and linguistic processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Muhammad Atta ur Rahman , Dooseop Choi , Seung-Ik Lee , KyoungWook Min

In this work, instead of directly predicting the pixel-level segmentation masks, the problem of referring image segmentation is formulated as sequential polygon generation, and the predicted polygons can be later converted into segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Jiang Liu , Hui Ding , Zhaowei Cai , Yuting Zhang , Ravi Kumar Satzoda , Vijay Mahadevan , R. Manmatha

Referring segmentation grounds natural-language queries to pixel-level masks, but extending it to complex scenarios with multiple instances, cross-category groups, or open-ended target sets remains challenging. Previous Large Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zhixiong Zhang , Yizhuo Li , Shuangrui Ding , Yuhang Zang , Shengyuan Ding , Long Xing , Yibin Wang , Qiaosheng Zhang , Jiaqi Wang

Visual grounding is a task to locate the target indicated by a natural language expression. Existing methods extend the generic object detection framework to this problem. They base the visual grounding on the features from pre-generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Li Yang , Yan Xu , Chunfeng Yuan , Wei Liu , Bing Li , Weiming Hu

Decoding non-invasive brain recordings is pivotal for advancing our understanding of human cognition but faces challenges due to individual differences and complex neural signal representations. Traditional methods often require customized…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Guobin Shen , Dongcheng Zhao , Xiang He , Linghao Feng , Yiting Dong , Jihang Wang , Qian Zhang , Yi Zeng

Image captioning aims to automatically generate a natural language description of a given image, and most state-of-the-art models have adopted an encoder-decoder framework. The framework consists of a convolution neural network (CNN)-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Jun Yu , Jing Li , Zhou Yu , Qingming Huang

Referring image segmentation aims at segmenting the foreground masks of the entities that can well match the description given in the natural language expression. Previous approaches tackle this problem using implicit feature interaction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Shaofei Huang , Tianrui Hui , Si Liu , Guanbin Li , Yunchao Wei , Jizhong Han , Luoqi Liu , Bo Li

Referring video segmentation aims to segment the corresponding video object described by the language expression. To address this task, we first design a two-stream encoder to extract CNN-based visual features and transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Guang Feng , Lihe Zhang , Zhiwei Hu , Huchuan Lu

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) is an emerging cross-modality task that aims to generate pixel-level maps of the target objects referred by given textual expressions. The main concept involves learning an accurate alignment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Baoli Sun , Xinzhu Ma , Ning Wang , Zhihui Wang , Zhiyong Wang