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Vision-language models like CLIP have shown impressive capabilities in aligning images and text, but they often struggle with lengthy and detailed text descriptions because of their training focus on short and concise captions. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Hyungyu Choi , Young Kyun Jang , Chanho Eom

Multimodal alignment between language and vision is the fundamental topic in current vision-language model research. Contrastive Captioners (CoCa), as a representative method, integrates Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Ziping Ma , Furong Xu , Jian Liu , Ming Yang , Qingpei Guo

We introduce the notion of point affiliation into feature upsampling. By abstracting a feature map into non-overlapped semantic clusters formed by points of identical semantic meaning, feature upsampling can be viewed as point affiliation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Wenze Liu , Hao Lu , Yuliang Liu , Zhiguo Cao

Diffusion models have revolted the field of text-to-image generation recently. The unique way of fusing text and image information contributes to their remarkable capability of generating highly text-related images. From another…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Changming Xiao , Qi Yang , Feng Zhou , Changshui Zhang

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation models aim to accurately assign a semantic label to each pixel in an image from a set of arbitrary open-vocabulary texts. In order to learn such pixel-level alignment, current approaches typically rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Zihang Lai

Recent advances in Large Multi-modal Models (LMMs) have demonstrated their remarkable success as general-purpose multi-modal assistants, with particular focuses on holistic image- and video-language understanding. Conversely, less attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ye Liu , Zongyang Ma , Junfu Pu , Zhongang Qi , Yang Wu , Ying Shan , Chang Wen Chen

Recently, great success has been made in learning visual representations from text supervision, facilitating the emergence of text-supervised semantic segmentation. However, existing works focus on pixel grouping and cross-modal semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Pengzhen Ren , Changlin Li , Hang Xu , Yi Zhu , Guangrun Wang , Jianzhuang Liu , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang

Most state-of-the-art semi-supervised video object segmentation methods rely on a pixel-accurate mask of a target object provided for the first frame of a video. However, obtaining a detailed segmentation mask is expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Anna Khoreva , Anna Rohrbach , Bernt Schiele

In this work, we investigate performing semantic segmentation solely through the training on image-sentence pairs. Due to the lack of dense annotations, existing text-supervised methods can only learn to group an image into semantic regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Yabo Zhang , Zihao Wang , Jun Hao Liew , Jingjia Huang , Manyu Zhu , Jiashi Feng , Wangmeng Zuo

Open-vocabulary grounding requires accurate vision-language alignment under weak supervision, yet existing methods either rely on global sentence embeddings that lack fine-grained expressiveness or introduce token-level alignment with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Junyi Hu , Tian Bai , Fengyi Wu , Wenyan Li , Zhenming Peng , Yi Zhang

Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) aims to identify, at the pixel level, the object in a visual scene that produces a given sound. Current AVS methods rely on costly fine-grained annotations of mask-audio pairs, making them impractical for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Swapnil Bhosale , Haosen Yang , Diptesh Kanojia , Jiangkang Deng , Xiatian Zhu

Video editing and synthesis often introduce object inconsistencies, such as frame flicker and identity drift that degrade perceptual quality. To address these issues, we introduce ObjectAlign, a novel framework that seamlessly blends…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Mustafa Munir , Harsh Goel , Xiwen Wei , Minkyu Choi , Sahil Shah , Kartikeya Bhardwaj , Paul Whatmough , Sandeep Chinchali , Radu Marculescu

Semantic segmentation is the task of assigning a class-label to each pixel in an image. We propose a region-based semantic segmentation framework which handles both full and weak supervision, and addresses three common problems: (1) Objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Holger Caesar , Jasper Uijlings , Vittorio Ferrari

Image forgery localization aims to precisely identify tampered regions within images, but it commonly depends on costly pixel-level annotations. To alleviate this annotation burden, weakly supervised image forgery localization (WSIFL) has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ziqi Sheng , Junyan Wu , Wei Lu , Jiantao Zhou

This paper studies co-segmenting the common semantic object in a set of images. Existing works either rely on carefully engineered networks to mine the implicit semantic information in visual features or require extra data (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Xin Duan , Yan Yang , Liyuan Pan , Xiabi Liu

Most machine learning-based image segmentation models produce pixel-wise confidence scores that represent the model's predicted probability for each class label at every pixel. While this information can be particularly valuable in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Bruno Viti , Elias Karabelas , Martin Holler

Large language models have achieved great success in recent years, so as their variants in vision. Existing vision-language models can describe images in natural languages, answer visual-related questions, or perform complex reasoning about…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Jiarui Xu , Xingyi Zhou , Shen Yan , Xiuye Gu , Anurag Arnab , Chen Sun , Xiaolong Wang , Cordelia Schmid

We present an approach to simultaneously perform semantic segmentation and prepositional phrase attachment resolution for captioned images. Some ambiguities in language cannot be resolved without simultaneously reasoning about an associated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Gordon Christie , Ankit Laddha , Aishwarya Agrawal , Stanislaw Antol , Yash Goyal , Kevin Kochersberger , Dhruv Batra

Referring image segmentation aims to segment a referent via a natural linguistic expression.Due to the distinct data properties between text and image, it is challenging for a network to well align text and pixel-level features. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Zhaoqing Wang , Yu Lu , Qiang Li , Xunqiang Tao , Yandong Guo , Mingming Gong , Tongliang Liu

Face segmentation is the task of densely labeling pixels on the face according to their semantics. While current methods place an emphasis on developing sophisticated architectures, use conditional random fields for smoothness, or rather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Iacopo Masi , Joe Mathai , Wael AbdAlmageed