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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

Given a language expression, referring remote sensing image segmentation (RRSIS) aims to identify ground objects and assign pixel-wise labels within the imagery. The one of key challenges for this task is to capture discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Sen Lei , Xinyu Xiao , Tianlin Zhang , Heng-Chao Li , Zhenwei Shi , Qing Zhu

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) requires identifying objects from images based on textual descriptions. We observe that existing methods significantly underperform on motion-related queries compared to appearance-based ones. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Chaeyun Kim , Seunghoon Yi , Yejin Kim , Yohan Jo , Joonseok Lee

The accurate segmentation of brain tumors from multi-modal MRI is critical for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. While integrating complementary information from various MRI sequences is a common practice, the frequent absence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Dongqing Xie , Yonghuang Wu , Zisheng Ai , Jun Min , Zhencun Jiang , Shaojin Geng , Lei Wang

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

Traditional one-shot medical image segmentation (MIS) methods use registration networks to propagate labels from a reference atlas or rely on comprehensive sampling strategies to generate synthetic labeled data for training. However, these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Feng Zhou , Yanjie Zhou , Longjie Wang , Yun Peng , David E. Carlson , Liyun Tu

One-shot medical image segmentation (MIS) is crucial for medical analysis due to the burden of medical experts on manual annotation. The recent emergence of the segment anything model (SAM) has demonstrated remarkable adaptation in MIS but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-30 Jia Wang , Yunan Mei , Jiarui Liu , Xin Fan

Multimodal semantic communication has great potential to enhance downstream task performance by integrating complementary information across modalities. This paper introduces ProMSC-MIS, a novel Prompt-based Multimodal Semantic…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Haoshuo Zhang , Yufei Bo , Meixia Tao

Referring remote sensing image segmentation is crucial for achieving fine-grained visual understanding through free-format textual input, enabling enhanced scene and object extraction in remote sensing applications. Current research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Keyan Chen , Jiafan Zhang , Chenyang Liu , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) aims to segment target objects expressed in natural language within a scene at the pixel level. Various recent RIS models have achieved state-of-the-art performance by generating contextual tokens to model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Minhyeok Lee , Dogyoon Lee , Jungho Lee , Suhwan Cho , Heeseung Choi , Ig-Jae Kim , Sangyoun Lee

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) consistently requires language and appearance semantics to more understand each other. The need becomes acute especially under hard situations. To achieve, existing works tend to resort to various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Jiaxing Yang , Lihe Zhang , Jiayu Sun , Huchuan Lu

This paper focuses on the Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) task, which aims to segment objects from an image based on a given language description. The critical problem of RIS is achieving fine-grained alignment between different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Yong Liu , Ruihao Xu , Yansong Tang

In this paper, we propose a novel task termed Omni-Referring Image Segmentation (OmniRIS) towards highly generalized image segmentation. Compared with existing unimodally conditioned segmentation tasks, such as RIS and visual RIS, OmniRIS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Qiancheng Zheng , Yunhang Shen , Gen Luo , Baiyang Song , Xing Sun , Xiaoshuai Sun , Yiyi Zhou , Rongrong Ji

Recent image segmentation models have advanced to segment images into high-quality masks for visual entities, and yet they cannot provide comprehensive semantic understanding for complex queries based on both language and vision. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Shengcao Cao , Zijun Wei , Jason Kuen , Kangning Liu , Lingzhi Zhang , Jiuxiang Gu , HyunJoon Jung , Liang-Yan Gui , Yu-Xiong Wang

In this work, we propose a method that leverages CLIP feature distillation, achieving efficient 3D segmentation through language guidance. Unlike previous methods that rely on multi-scale CLIP features and are limited by processing speed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Xingyu Miao , Haoran Duan , Yang Bai , Tejal Shah , Jun Song , Yang Long , Rajiv Ranjan , Ling Shao

Compressed sensing (CS) is an efficient method to reconstruct MR image from small sampled data in $k$-space and accelerate the acquisition of MRI. In this work, we propose a novel deep geometric distillation network which combines the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-30 Xiaohong Fan , Yin Yang , Jianping Zhang

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 image segmentation segments an image from a language expression. With the aim of producing high-quality masks, existing methods often adopt iterative learning approaches that rely on RNNs or stacked attention layers to refine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Zhao Yang , Jiaqi Wang , Yansong Tang , Kai Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip H. S. Torr

Medical image segmentation remains challenging due to the vast diversity of anatomical structures, imaging modalities, and segmentation tasks. While deep learning has made significant advances, current approaches struggle to generalize as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Yunhe Gao , Di Liu , Zhuowei Li , Yunsheng Li , Dongdong Chen , Mu Zhou , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Recently, Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) frameworks that pair the Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) with the Segment Anything Model (SAM) have achieved impressive results. However, adapting MLLM to segmentation is computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Xiaobo Yang , Xiaojin Gong