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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

We propose a new framework that automatically generates high-quality segmentation masks with their referring expressions as pseudo supervisions for referring image segmentation (RIS). These pseudo supervisions allow the training of any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Seonghoon Yu , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Jeany Son

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is an emerging research spot in computer vision, which refers to detecting the target region in an image given an text description. Most existing REC methods follow a multi-stage pipeline, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Yiyi Zhou , Rongrong Ji , Gen Luo , Xiaoshuai Sun , Jinsong Su , Xinghao Ding , Chia-wen Lin , Qi Tian

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems enhance text generation by incorporating external knowledge but often struggle when retrieving context across different text modalities due to semantic gaps. We introduce a generalized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Arihan Yadav , Alan McMillan

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) merges retrieval methods with deep learning advancements to address the static limitations of large language models (LLMs) by enabling the dynamic integration of up-to-date external information. This…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yizheng Huang , Jimmy Huang

Referring expression comprehension (REC) aims to localize a target object within an image based on a given expression. Although recent advances in vision-language models have led to substantial improvements in REC tasks, current REC…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zongjian Wu , Lei Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) has shown exceptional capabilities in many natual language understanding and generation tasks. However, the personalization issue still remains a much-coveted property, especially when it comes to the multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Hongru Wang , Wenyu Huang , Yang Deng , Rui Wang , Zezhong Wang , Yufei Wang , Fei Mi , Jeff Z. Pan , Kam-Fai Wong

Referring expression segmentation (RES) aims at segmenting the foreground masks of the entities that match the descriptive natural language expression. Previous datasets and methods for classic RES task heavily rely on the prior assumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Wenxuan Wang , Tongtian Yue , Yisi Zhang , Longteng Guo , Xingjian He , Xinlong Wang , Jing Liu

Referring expression segmentation (RES), a task that involves localizing specific instance-level objects based on free-form linguistic descriptions, has emerged as a crucial frontier in human-AI interaction. It demands an intricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Ying Zang , Chenglong Fu , Runlong Cao , Didi Zhu , Min Zhang , Wenjun Hu , Lanyun Zhu , Tianrun Chen

Traditionally, Referring Expression Generation (REG) models first decide on the form and then on the content of references to discourse entities in text, typically relying on features such as salience and grammatical function. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Thiago Castro Ferreira , Diego Moussallem , Ákos Kádár , Sander Wubben , Emiel Krahmer

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has gained significant attention in recent years for its potential to enhance natural language understanding and generation by combining large-scale retrieval systems with generative models. RAG…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Mingyue Cheng , Yucong Luo , Jie Ouyang , Qi Liu , Huijie Liu , Li Li , Shuo Yu , Bohou Zhang , Jiawei Cao , Jie Ma , Daoyu Wang , Enhong Chen

Existing Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) methods typically require expensive pixel-level or box-level annotations for supervision. In this paper, we observe that the referring texts used in RIS already provide sufficient information to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Fang Liu , Yuhao Liu , Yuqiu Kong , Ke Xu , Lihe Zhang , Baocai Yin , Gerhard Hancke , Rynson Lau

We revisit retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) by embedding retrieval control directly into generation. Instead of treating retrieval as an external intervention, we express retrieval decisions within token-level decoding, enabling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Bo Li , Mingda Wang , Gexiang Fang , Shikun Zhang , Wei Ye

Visual grounding tasks, such as referring image segmentation (RIS) and referring expression comprehension (REC), aim to localize a target object based on a given textual description. The target object in an image can be described in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Seonghoon Yu , Junbeom Hong , Joonseok Lee , Jeany Son

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) aims at segmenting the target object from an image referred by one given natural language expression. The diverse and flexible expressions as well as complex visual contents in the images raise the RIS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Yang Jiao , Zequn Jie , Weixin Luo , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang , Xiaolin Wei , Lin Ma

The scaling of large language models to encode all the world's knowledge in model parameters is unsustainable and has exacerbated resource barriers. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) presents a potential solution, yet its application to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Varun Nagaraj Rao , Siddharth Choudhary , Aditya Deshpande , Ravi Kumar Satzoda , Srikar Appalaraju

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has recently gained traction in natural language processing. Numerous studies and real-world applications are leveraging its ability to enhance generative models through external information retrieval.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Hao Yu , Aoran Gan , Kai Zhang , Shiwei Tong , Qi Liu , Zhaofeng Liu

As an important step towards visual reasoning, visual grounding (e.g., phrase localization, referring expression comprehension/segmentation) has been widely explored Previous approaches to referring expression comprehension (REC) or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Muchen Li , Leonid Sigal

Diffusion models have seen widespread adoption for text-driven human motion generation and related tasks due to their impressive generative capabilities and flexibility. However, current motion diffusion models face two major limitations: a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Yifei Liu , Changxing Ding , Ling Guo , Huaiguang Jiang , Qiong Cao

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for enhancing the capabilities of large language models. However, existing RAG evaluation predominantly focuses on text retrieval and relies on opaque, end-to-end…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Chuan Xu , Qiaosheng Chen , Yutong Feng , Gong Cheng