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Video Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) aims to localize a target object in video frames referred by the natural language expression. Recently, the Transformerbased methods have greatly boosted the performance limit. However, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Ji Jiang , Meng Cao , Tengtao Song , Yuexian Zou

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment target objects in videos based on natural language descriptions. However, fixed keyframe-based approaches that couple a vision language model with a separate propagation module…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jihwan Hong , Jaeyoung Do

Generalized Referring Expression Segmentation (GRES) extends the scope of classic RES to refer to multiple objects in one expression or identify the empty targets absent in the image. GRES poses challenges in modeling the complex spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Zhuofan Xia , Dongchen Han , Yizeng Han , Xuran Pan , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) represents a novel retrieval paradigm that is capable of expressing users' intricate retrieval requirements flexibly. It enables the user to give a multimodal query, comprising a reference image and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zhiwei Chen , Yupeng Hu , Zixu Li , Zhiheng Fu , Xuemeng Song , Liqiang Nie

Medical Referring Image Segmentation (MRIS) involves segmenting target regions in medical images based on natural language descriptions. While achieving promising results, recent approaches usually involve complex design of multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Xinyu Chen , Yiran Wang , Gaoyang Pang , Jiafu Hao , Chentao Yue , Luping Zhou , Yonghui Li

Referring expression segmentation aims to segment an object described by a language expression from an image. Despite the recent progress on this task, existing models tackling this task may not be able to fully capture semantics and visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Li Xu , Mark He Huang , Xindi Shang , Zehuan Yuan , Ying Sun , Jun Liu

Referring image segmentation (RIS) aims to precisely segment referents in images through corresponding natural language expressions, yet relying on cost-intensive mask annotations. Weakly supervised RIS thus learns from image-text pairs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Qiyuan Dai , Sibei Yang

Remote Sensing Image Captioning (RSIC) is a cross-modal field bridging vision and language, aimed at automatically generating natural language descriptions of features and scenes in remote sensing imagery. Despite significant advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Qing Zhou , Tao Yang , Junyu Gao , Weiping Ni , Junzheng Wu , Qi Wang

Open-Vocabulary Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (OVRSIS), an emerging task that adapts Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) to the remote sensing (RS) domain, remains underexplored due to the absence of a unified evaluation benchmark and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Bingyu Li , Haocheng Dong , Da Zhang , Zhiyuan Zhao , Junyu Gao , Xuelong Li

Surgical image segmentation is essential for robot-assisted surgery and intraoperative guidance. However, existing methods are constrained to predefined categories, produce one-shot predictions without adaptive refinement, and lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Ange Lou , Yamin Li , Qi Chang , Nan Xi , Luyuan Xie , Zichao Li , Tianyu Luan

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

Existing Video Object Segmentation (VOS) relies on explicit user instructions, such as categories, masks, or short phrases, restricting their ability to perform complex video segmentation requiring reasoning with world knowledge. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Cilin Yan , Haochen Wang , Shilin Yan , Xiaolong Jiang , Yao Hu , Guoliang Kang , Weidi Xie , Efstratios Gavves

Interactive image segmentation(IIS) plays a critical role in generating precise annotations for remote sensing imagery, where objects often exhibit scale variations, irregular boundaries and complex backgrounds. However, existing IIS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Deliang Wang , Peng Liu , Yan Ma , Rongkai Zhuang , Lajiao Chen , Bing Li , Yi Zeng

Referring remote sensing image segmentation (RRSIS) is a novel visual task in remote sensing images segmentation, which aims to segment objects based on a given text description, with great significance in practical application. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Leideng Shi , Juan Zhang

We present an open-vocabulary and zero-shot method for arbitrary referring expression segmentation (RES), targeting input expressions that are more general than what prior works were designed to handle. Specifically, our inputs encompass…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Ruiqi Wang , Hao Zhang

Referring Video Object Segmentation (R-VOS) methods face challenges in maintaining consistent object segmentation due to temporal context variability and the presence of other visually similar objects. We propose an end-to-end R-VOS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Bo Miao , Mohammed Bennamoun , Yongsheng Gao , Mubarak Shah , Ajmal Mian

We propose reCSE, a self supervised contrastive learning sentence representation framework based on feature reshaping. This framework is different from the current advanced models that use discrete data augmentation methods, but instead…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Fufangchen Zhao , Jian Gao , Danfeng Yan

Referring image segmentation (RIS) requires dense vision-language interactions between visual pixels and textual words to segment objects based on a given description. However, commonly adapted dual-encoders in RIS, e.g., Swin transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Seonghoon Yu , Ilchae Jung , Byeongju Han , Taeoh Kim , Yunho Kim , Dongyoon Wee , Jeany Son

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) aims to provide a segmentation mask of the target object in an image referred to by the text (i.e., referring expression). Existing methods require large-scale mask annotations. Moreover, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Sayan Nag , Koustava Goswami , Srikrishna Karanam

In real-world scenarios, the performance of semantic segmentation often deteriorates when processing low-quality (LQ) images, which may lack clear semantic structures and high-frequency details. Although image restoration techniques offer a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Kai Guan , Rongyuan Wu , Shuai Li , Wentao Zhu , Wenjun Zeng , Lei Zhang