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Learning visual representations is foundational for a broad spectrum of downstream tasks. Although recent vision-language contrastive models, such as CLIP and SigLIP, have achieved impressive zero-shot performance via large-scale…

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Video instance segmentation (VIS) aims at classifying, segmenting and tracking object instances in video sequences. Recent transformer-based neural networks have demonstrated their powerful capability of modeling spatio-temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Xiang Li , Jinglu Wang , Xiaohao Xu , Bhiksha Raj , Yan Lu

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment the target instance referred by a given text expression in a video clip. The text expression normally contains sophisticated description of the instance's appearance, action, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Linfeng Yuan , Miaojing Shi , Zijie Yue , Qijun Chen

Interactive segmentation aims to segment the specified target on the image with positive and negative clicks from users. Interactive ambiguity is a crucial issue in this field, which refers to the possibility of multiple compliant outcomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Zheng Lin , Nan Zhou , Chen-Xi Du , Deng-Ping Fan , Shi-Min Hu

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment target objects throughout a video based on a text description. This is challenging as it involves deep vision-language understanding, pixel-level dense prediction and spatiotemporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Tianming Liang , Kun-Yu Lin , Chaolei Tan , Jianguo Zhang , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jian-Fang Hu

While recent advancements in Image Super-Resolution (SR) using diffusion models have shown promise in improving overall image quality, their application to scene text images has revealed limitations. These models often struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Keren Ye , Ignacio Garcia Dorado , Michalis Raptis , Mauricio Delbracio , Irene Zhu , Peyman Milanfar , Hossein Talebi

Referring Expressions Generation (REG) aims to produce textual descriptions that unambiguously identifies specific objects within a visual scene. Traditionally, this has been achieved through supervised learning methods, which perform well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Lior Bracha , Eitan Shaar , Aviv Shamsian , Ethan Fetaya , Gal Chechik

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 work, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Mengcheng Lan , Chaofeng Chen , Jiaxing Xu , Zongrui Li , Yiping Ke , Xudong Jiang , Yingchen Yu , Yunqing Zhao , Song Bai

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

Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (RRSIS) is a challenging task, aiming to segment specific target objects in remote sensing (RS) images based on a given language expression. Existing RRSIS methods typically employ coarse-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Maofu Liu , Xin Jiang , Xiaokang Zhang

Semantic communication significantly reduces required bandwidth by understanding semantic meaning of the transmitted. However, current deep learning-based semantic communication methods rely on joint source-channel coding design and…

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Large-scale visual search engines are expected to solve a dual problem at once: (i) locate every image that truly contains the object described by a sentence and (ii) identify the object's bounding box or exact pixels within each hit.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Ziling Huang , Yidan Zhang , Shin'ichi Satoh

Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation provides a flexible and fine-grained framework for remote sensing scene analysis via vision-language collaborative interpretation. Current approaches predominantly utilize a three-stage pipeline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Keyan Chen , Chenyang Liu , Bowen Chen , Jiafan Zhang , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

Text-to-image diffusion techniques have shown exceptional capabilities in producing high-quality, dense visual predictions from open-vocabulary text. This indicates a strong correlation between visual and textual domains in open concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Tuan-Anh Vu , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Qing Guo , Nhat Chung , Binh-Son Hua , Ivor W. Tsang , Sai-Kit Yeung

We consider the problem of referring camouflaged object detection (Ref-COD), a new task that aims to segment specified camouflaged objects based on a small set of referring images with salient target objects. We first assemble a large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xuying Zhang , Bowen Yin , Zheng Lin , Qibin Hou , Deng-Ping Fan , Ming-Ming Cheng

Text-prompted image segmentation enables fine-grained visual understanding and is critical for applications such as human-computer interaction and robotics. However, existing supervised fine-tuning methods typically ignore explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Lianghui Zhu , Bin Ouyang , Yuxuan Zhang , Tianheng Cheng , Rui Hu , Haocheng Shen , Longjin Ran , Xiaoxin Chen , Li Yu , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is a foundational cross-modal task that evaluates the interplay of language understanding, image comprehension, and language-to-image grounding. It serves as an essential testing ground for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Xuzheng Yang , Junzhuo Liu , Peng Wang , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang , Heng Tao Shen

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVS) aims to segment images of arbitrary categories specified by class labels or captions. However, most previous best-performing methods, whether pixel grouping methods or region recognition methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yuan Wang , Rui Sun , Naisong Luo , Yuwen Pan , Tianzhu Zhang

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

Text-based image segmentation aims to delineate object boundaries within an image from text prompts, offering higher flexibility and broader application scope compared to traditional fixed-category segmentation tasks. Recent studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Zishen Qu , Xuesong Li , Haijian Gu , Hongwei Kang , Quan Meng , Tianrui Niu , Xin Yang , Ruidong Pan