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In this work, we address the challenging task of referring segmentation. The query expression in referring segmentation typically indicates the target object by describing its relationship with others. Therefore, to find the target one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Henghui Ding , Chang Liu , Suchen Wang , Xudong Jiang

Referring expression segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision that integrates natural language understanding with precise visual localization of target regions. Considering aerial imagery (e.g., modern aerial photos collected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Luís Marnoto , Alexandre Bernardino , Bruno Martins

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment the target instance in a video, referred by a text expression. Conventional approaches are mostly supervised learning, requiring expensive pixel-level mask annotations. To tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Miaojing Shi , Jun Huang , Zijie Yue , Hanli Wang

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) requires models to localize objects in images based on natural language descriptions. Research on the area remains predominantly English-centric, despite increasing global deployment demands. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Francisco Nogueira , Alexandre Bernardino , Bruno Martins

Semi-supervised referring expression segmentation (SS-RES) aims to achieve precise pixel-level language grounding under limited annotation, yet suffers from limited supervision and unreliable pseudo-labels when exploiting unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Runlong Cao , Ying Zang , Chuanwei Zhou , Tianrun Chen , Tong Zhang , Zhen Cui , Chunyan Xu

Referring Audio-Visual Segmentation (Ref-AVS) aims to segment specific objects in videos based on natural language expressions involving audio, vision, and text information. This task poses significant challenges in cross-modal reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Dian Jin , Yanghao Zhou , Jinxing Zhou , Jiaqi Ma , Ruohao Guo , Dan Guo

According to the principle of compositional generalization, the meaning of a complex expression can be understood as a function of the meaning of its parts and of how they are combined. This principle is crucial for human language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Sungjun Han , Sebastian Padó

Semantic segmentation (i.e. image parsing) aims to annotate each image pixel with its corresponding semantic class label. Spatially consistent labeling of the image requires an accurate description and modeling of the local contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Hasan F. Ates , Sercan Sunetci

Learning compositional representation is a key aspect of object-centric learning as it enables flexible systematic generalization and supports complex visual reasoning. However, most of the existing approaches rely on auto-encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Whie Jung , Jaehoon Yoo , Sungjin Ahn , Seunghoon Hong

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) aims to segment the target object in an image given a natural language expression. While recent methods leverage pre-trained vision backbones and more training corpus to achieve impressive results, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Zhenjie Mao , Yuhuan Yang , Chaofan Ma , Dongsheng Jiang , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Visual grounding localizes regions (boxes or segments) in the image corresponding to given referring expressions. In this work we address image segmentation from referring expressions, a problem that has so far only been addressed in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Robin Strudel , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

We propose a method that can generate an unambiguous description (known as a referring expression) of a specific object or region in an image, and which can also comprehend or interpret such an expression to infer which object is being…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Junhua Mao , Jonathan Huang , Alexander Toshev , Oana Camburu , Alan Yuille , Kevin Murphy

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) aims to segment an object described in natural language from an image, with the main challenge being a text-to-pixel correlation. Previous methods typically rely on single-modality features, such as vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yichen Yan , Xingjian He , Sihan Chen , Shichen Lu , Jing Liu

Referring expression comprehension (REC) aims to localize a text-related region in a given image by a referring expression in natural language. Existing methods focus on how to build convincing visual and language representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Shuai Wang , Fan Lyu , Wei Feng , Song Wang

Chemical representation learning has gained increasing interest due to the limited availability of supervised data in fields such as drug and materials design. This interest particularly extends to chemical language representation learning,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Jun-Hyung Park , Yeachan Kim , Mingyu Lee , Hyuntae Park , SangKeun Lee

This paper proposes a large-scale multi-modal dataset for referring motion expression video segmentation, focusing on segmenting and tracking target objects in videos based on language description of objects' motions. Existing referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-13 Henghui Ding , Chang Liu , Shuting He , Kaining Ying , Xudong Jiang , Chen Change Loy , Yu-Gang Jiang

We present PartComposer: a framework for part-level concept learning from single-image examples that enables text-to-image diffusion models to compose novel objects from meaningful components. Existing methods either struggle with…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Junyu Liu , R. Kenny Jones , Daniel Ritchie

This paper explores the weakly-supervised referring image segmentation (WRIS) problem, and focuses on a challenging setup where target localization is learned directly from image-text pairs. We note that the input text description typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Zaiquan Yang , Yuhao Liu , Jiaying Lin , Gerhard Hancke , Rynson W. H. Lau

Recently, significant progress has been made in multi-modal continual learning, aiming to learn new tasks sequentially in multi-modal settings while preserving performance on previously learned ones. However, existing methods mainly focus…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yuyang Hong , Qi Yang , Tao Zhang , Zili Wang , Zhaojin Fu , Kun Ding , Bin Fan , Shiming Xiang

Compositional vector space models of meaning promise new solutions to stubborn language understanding problems. This paper makes two contributions toward this end: (i) it uses automatically-extracted paraphrase examples as a source of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Avneesh Saluja , Chris Dyer , Jean-David Ruvini