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The Reference Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (RRSIS) task generates segmentation masks for specified objects in images based on textual descriptions, which has attracted widespread attention and research interest. Current RRSIS methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Shuyang Li , Shuang Wang , Zhuangzhuang Sun , Jing Xiao

In this paper, we propose a novel task termed Omni-Referring Image Segmentation (OmniRIS) towards highly generalized image segmentation. Compared with existing unimodally conditioned segmentation tasks, such as RIS and visual RIS, OmniRIS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Qiancheng Zheng , Yunhang Shen , Gen Luo , Baiyang Song , Xing Sun , Xiaoshuai Sun , Yiyi Zhou , Rongrong Ji

In this paper, we study a challenging task of zero-shot referring image segmentation. This task aims to identify the instance mask that is most related to a referring expression without training on pixel-level annotations. Previous research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Yucheng Suo , Linchao Zhu , Yi Yang

Both masked image modeling (MIM) and natural language supervision have facilitated the progress of transferable visual pre-training. In this work, we seek the synergy between two paradigms and study the emerging properties when MIM meets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Shusheng Yang , Yixiao Ge , Kun Yi , Dian Li , Ying Shan , Xiaohu Qie , Xinggang Wang

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) aims to segment the object in an image uniquely referred to by a natural language expression. However, RIS training often contains hard-to-align and instance-specific visual signals; optimizing on such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Tongfei Chen , Shuo Yang , Yuguang Yang , Linlin Yang , Runtang Guo , Changbai Li , He Long , Chunyu Xie , Dawei Leng , Baochang Zhang

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment the object referred to by the query sentence in the video. Most existing methods require end-to-end training with dense mask annotations, which could be computation-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Ci-Siang Lin , Min-Hung Chen , I-Jieh Liu , Chien-Yi Wang , Sifei Liu , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Conventional approaches to video segmentation are confined to predefined object categories and cannot identify out-of-vocabulary objects, let alone objects that are not identified explicitly but only referred to implicitly in complex text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yiqing Shen , Chenjia Li , Chenxiao Fan , Mathias Unberath

This work introduces composed image retrieval to remote sensing. It allows to query a large image archive by image examples alternated by a textual description, enriching the descriptive power over unimodal queries, either visual or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Bill Psomas , Ioannis Kakogeorgiou , Nikos Efthymiadis , Giorgos Tolias , Ondrej Chum , Yannis Avrithis , Konstantinos Karantzalos

We present REM, a framework for segmenting a wide range of concepts in video that can be described through natural language. Our method leverages the universal visual-language mapping learned by video diffusion models on Internet-scale data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Anurag Bagchi , Zhipeng Bao , Yu-Xiong Wang , Pavel Tokmakov , Martial Hebert

Remote sensing imagery has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its instrumental role in global environmental monitoring, land usage monitoring, and more. As image databases grow each year, performing automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jielu Zhang , Zhongliang Zhou , Gengchen Mai , Mengxuan Hu , Zihan Guan , Sheng Li , Lan Mu

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown exceptional capabilities in vision-language tasks; however, effectively integrating image segmentation into these models remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Mengcheng Lan , Chaofeng Chen , Yue Zhou , Jiaxing Xu , Yiping Ke , Xinjiang Wang , Litong Feng , Wayne Zhang

Generalized Referring expressions can describe one object, several related objects, or none at all. Existing generalized referring segmentation (GRES) models treat all cases alike, predicting a single binary mask and ignoring how linguistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 E-Ro Nguyen , Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras , Michael S. Ryoo

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

Using natural language to query visual information is a fundamental need in real-world applications. Text-Image Retrieval (TIR) retrieves a target image from a gallery based on an image-level description, while Referring Expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Xiangzhao Hao , Kuan Zhu , Hongyu Guo , Haiyun Guo , Ning Jiang , Quan Lu , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation is a complex and challenging task that integrates the paradigms of computer vision and natural language processing. Existing datasets for RRSIS suffer from critical limitations in resolution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Zhigang Yang , Huiguang Yao , Linmao Tian , Xuezhi Zhao , Qiang Li , Qi Wang

Although perception systems have made remarkable advancements in recent years, they still rely on explicit human instruction or pre-defined categories to identify the target objects before executing visual recognition tasks. Such systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Xin Lai , Zhuotao Tian , Yukang Chen , Yanwei Li , Yuhui Yuan , Shu Liu , Jiaya Jia

In this work, we address the task of referring image segmentation (RIS), which aims at predicting a segmentation mask for the object described by a natural language expression. Most existing methods focus on establishing unidirectional or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Jianhua Yang , Yan Huang , Zhanyu Ma , Liang Wang

Remote sensing image segmentation faces persistent challenges in distinguishing morphologically similar categories and adapting to diverse scene variations. While existing methods rely on implicit representation learning paradigms, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xuechao Zou , Yue Li , Shun Zhang , Kai Li , Shiying Wang , Pin Tao , Junliang Xing , Congyan Lang

Referring image segmentation segments an image from a language expression. With the aim of producing high-quality masks, existing methods often adopt iterative learning approaches that rely on RNNs or stacked attention layers to refine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Zhao Yang , Jiaqi Wang , Yansong Tang , Kai Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip H. S. Torr

Referring image segmentation (RIS) aims to locate the particular region corresponding to the language expression. Existing methods incorporate features from different modalities in a \emph{bottom-up} manner. This design may get some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Mengxi Zhang , Heqing Lian , Yiming Liu , Jie Chen
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