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Referring image segmentation is an advanced semantic segmentation task where target is not a predefined class but is described in natural language. Most of existing methods for this task rely heavily on convolutional neural networks, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Namyup Kim , Dongwon Kim , Cuiling Lan , Wenjun Zeng , Suha Kwak

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

Image segmentation from referring expressions is a joint vision and language modeling task, where the input is an image and a textual expression describing a particular region in the image; and the goal is to localize and segment the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Ronghang Hu , Marcus Rohrbach , Subhashini Venugopalan , Trevor Darrell

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) is a task that segments image regions based on language expressions, requiring fine-grained alignment between two modalities. However, existing methods often struggle with multimodal misalignment and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Qianqi Lu , Yuxiang Xie , Jing Zhang , Shiwei Zou , Yan Chen , Xidao Luan

Referring image segmentation is a challenging task that involves generating pixel-wise segmentation masks based on natural language descriptions. The complexity of this task increases with the intricacy of the sentences provided. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Hai Nguyen-Truong , E-Ro Nguyen , Tuan-Anh Vu , Minh-Triet Tran , Binh-Son Hua , Sai-Kit Yeung

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) 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 3D Segmentation is a visual-language task that segments all points of the specified object from a 3D point cloud described by a sentence of query. Previous works perform a two-stage paradigm, first conducting language-agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Xuexun Liu , Xiaoxu Xu , Jinlong Li , Qiudan Zhang , Xu Wang , Nicu Sebe , Lin Ma

Robot-assisted surgery has made significant progress, with instrument segmentation being a critical factor in surgical intervention quality. It serves as the building block to facilitate surgical robot navigation and surgical education for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Hongqiu Wang , Lei Zhu , Guang Yang , Yike Guo , Shichen Zhang , Bo Xu , Yueming Jin

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) is a task that aims to segment the target object in all video frames based on a sentence describing the object. Although existing RVOS methods have achieved significant performance, they depend on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Wangbo Zhao , Kepan Nan , Songyang Zhang , Kai Chen , Dahua Lin , Yang You

We propose Rank & Sort (RS) Loss, a ranking-based loss function to train deep object detection and instance segmentation methods (i.e. visual detectors). RS Loss supervises the classifier, a sub-network of these methods, to rank each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Kemal Oksuz , Baris Can Cam , Emre Akbas , Sinan Kalkan

Referring Audio-Visual Segmentation (Ref-AVS) aims to segment target objects in audible videos based on given reference expressions. Prior works typically rely on learning latent embeddings via multimodal fusion to prompt a tunable SAM/SAM2…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jinxing Zhou , Yanghao Zhou , Mingfei Han , Tong Wang , Xiaojun Chang , Hisham Cholakkal , Rao Muhammad Anwer

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

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

Medical image segmentation remains challenging due to the vast diversity of anatomical structures, imaging modalities, and segmentation tasks. While deep learning has made significant advances, current approaches struggle to generalize as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Yunhe Gao , Di Liu , Zhuowei Li , Yunsheng Li , Dongdong Chen , Mu Zhou , Dimitris N. Metaxas

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

Image Super-Resolution (ISR) has seen significant progress with the introduction of remarkable generative models. However, challenges such as the trade-off issues between fidelity and realism, as well as computational complexity, have also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Yunpeng Qu , Kun Yuan , Jinhua Hao , Kai Zhao , Qizhi Xie , Ming Sun , Chao Zhou

Existing mainstream approaches follow the encoder-decoder paradigm for generating radiology reports. They focus on improving the network structure of encoders and decoders, which leads to two shortcomings: overlooking the modality gap and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yuanjiang Luo , Hongxiang Li , Xuan Wu , Meng Cao , Xiaoshuang Huang , Zhihong Zhu , Peixi Liao , Hu Chen , Yi Zhang

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

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