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Deriving reliable region-word alignment from image-text pairs is critical to learn object-level vision-language representations for open-vocabulary object detection. Existing methods typically rely on pre-trained or self-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Chuofan Ma , Yi Jiang , Xin Wen , Zehuan Yuan , Xiaojuan Qi

Most existing word alignment methods rely on manual alignment datasets or parallel corpora, which limits their usefulness. Here, to mitigate the dependence on manual data, we broaden the source of supervision by relaxing the requirement for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Qiyu Wu , Masaaki Nagata , Yoshimasa Tsuruoka

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) is a challenging task that requires an algorithm to segment objects referred by free-form language expressions. Despite significant progress in recent years, most state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yong Xien Chng , Henry Zheng , Yizeng Han , Xuchong Qiu , Gao Huang

Referring image segmentation aims to segment an object referred to by natural language expression from an image. However, this task is challenging due to the distinct data properties between text and image, and the randomness introduced by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Yichen Yan , Xingjian He , Wenxuan Wan , Jing Liu

The ability to describe images with natural language sentences is the hallmark for image and language understanding. Such a system has wide ranging applications such as annotating images and using natural sentences to search for images.In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-15 Afroze Ibrahim Baqapuri

Weakly-supervised semantic segmentation under image tags supervision is a challenging task as it directly associates high-level semantic to low-level appearance. To bridge this gap, in this paper, we propose an iterative bottom-up and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Xiang Wang , Shaodi You , Xi Li , Huimin Ma

Semantic segmentation has made significant strides in pixel-level image understanding, yet it remains limited in capturing contextual and semantic relationships between objects. Current models, such as CNN and Transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Ben Rahman

Text-to-image generation has advanced rapidly, yet aligning complex textual prompts with generated visuals remains challenging, especially with intricate object relationships and fine-grained details. This paper introduces Fast Prompt…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Khalil Mrini , Hanlin Lu , Linjie Yang , Weilin Huang , Heng Wang

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation methods leverage unlabeled data by pseudo-labeling them. Thus the success of these methods hinges on the reliablility of the pseudo-labels. Existing methods mostly choose high-confidence pixels in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Prantik Howlader , Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

We propose an end-to-end learning framework for segmenting generic objects in both images and videos. Given a novel image or video, our approach produces a pixel-level mask for all "object-like" regions---even for object categories never…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Bo Xiong , Suyog Dutt Jain , Kristen Grauman

We introduce a model for bidirectional retrieval of images and sentences through a multi-modal embedding of visual and natural language data. Unlike previous models that directly map images or sentences into a common embedding space, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-24 Andrej Karpathy , Armand Joulin , Li Fei-Fei

Word alignment which aims to extract lexicon translation equivalents between source and target sentences, serves as a fundamental tool for natural language processing. Recent studies in this area have yielded substantial improvements by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Siyu Lai , Zhen Yang , Fandong Meng , Yufeng Chen , Jinan Xu , Jie Zhou

Open-vocabulary instance segmentation aims at segmenting novel classes without mask annotations. It is an important step toward reducing laborious human supervision. Most existing works first pretrain a model on captioned images covering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Dat Huynh , Jason Kuen , Zhe Lin , Jiuxiang Gu , Ehsan Elhamifar

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) aims to enhance the generalization of the learned model to other domains. The domain-invariant knowledge is transferred from the model trained on labeled source domain, e.g., video game, to unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Mu Chen , Zhedong Zheng , Yi Yang , Tat-Seng Chua

This paper studies the context aggregation problem in semantic image segmentation. The existing researches focus on improving the pixel representations by aggregating the contextual information within individual images. Though impressive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Zhenchao Jin , Tao Gong , Dongdong Yu , Qi Chu , Jian Wang , Changhu Wang , Jie Shao

Weakly supervised localization aims at finding target object regions using only image-level supervision. However, localization maps extracted from classification networks are often not accurate due to the lack of fine pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Xiaolin Zhang , Yunchao Wei , Yi Yang

Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) aims to segment objects that are highly integrated with the background in terms of color, texture, and structure, making it a highly challenging task in computer vision. Although existing methods introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Min Zhang

Recently, learning open-vocabulary semantic segmentation from text supervision has achieved promising downstream performance. Nevertheless, current approaches encounter an alignment granularity gap owing to the absence of dense annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Yajie Liu , Pu Ge , Qingjie Liu , Di Huang

Vision-to-language tasks aim to integrate computer vision and natural language processing together, which has attracted the attention of many researchers. For typical approaches, they encode image into feature representations and decode it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Xuelong Li , Aihong Yuan , Xiaoqiang Lu

Transferring visual style between images while preserving semantic correspondence between similar objects remains a central challenge in computer vision. While existing methods have made great strides, most of them operate at global level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Wenbo Nie , Zixiang Li , Renshuai Tao , Bin Wu , Yunchao Wei , Yao Zhao