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Referring video object segmentation aims to segment a referent throughout a video sequence according to a natural language expression. It requires aligning the natural language expression with the objects' motions and their dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Jiajin Tang , Ge Zheng , Sibei Yang

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

Segmentation models can recognize a pre-defined set of objects in images. However, models that can reason over complex user queries that implicitly refer to multiple objects of interest are still in their infancy. Recent advances in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Jerome Quenum , Wen-Han Hsieh , Tsung-Han Wu , Ritwik Gupta , Trevor Darrell , David M. Chan

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) is an advanced vision-language task that involves identifying and segmenting objects within an image as described by free-form text descriptions. While previous studies focused on aligning visual and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Minhyun Lee , Seungho Lee , Song Park , Dongyoon Han , Byeongho Heo , Hyunjung Shim

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is a vision-language task that localizes a specific image region based on a textual description. Existing REC benchmarks primarily evaluate perceptual capabilities and lack interpretable scoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Tianyi Gao , Hao Li , Han Fang , Xin Wei , Xiaodong Dong , Hongbo Sun , Ye Yuan , Zhongjiang He , Jinglin Xu , Jingmin Xin , Hao Sun

Using natural language to query visual information is a fundamental need in real-world applications. Text-Image Retrieval (TIR) retrieves a target image from a gallery based on an image-level description, while Referring Expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Xiangzhao Hao , Kuan Zhu , Hongyu Guo , Haiyun Guo , Ning Jiang , Quan Lu , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

The task in referring expression comprehension is to localise the object instance in an image described by a referring expression phrased in natural language. As a language-to-vision matching task, the key to this problem is to learn a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Peng Wang , Qi Wu , Jiewei Cao , Chunhua Shen , Lianli Gao , Anton van den Hengel

Referring video object segmentation (R-VOS) is an emerging cross-modal task that aims to segment the target object referred by a language expression in all video frames. In this work, we propose a simple and unified framework built upon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Jiannan Wu , Yi Jiang , Peize Sun , Zehuan Yuan , Ping Luo

Crowd understanding has aroused the widespread interest in vision domain due to its important practical significance. Unfortunately, there is no effort to explore crowd understanding in multi-modal domain that bridges natural language and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Heqian Qiu , Hongliang Li , Taijin Zhao , Lanxiao Wang , Qingbo Wu , Fanman Meng

Reference Expression Segmentation (RES) and Reference Expression Generation (REG) are mutually inverse tasks that can be naturally jointly trained. Though recent work has explored such joint training, the mechanism of how RES and REG can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Shijia Huang , Feng Li , Hao Zhang , Shilong Liu , Lei Zhang , Liwei Wang

AI-driven geometric problem solving is a complex vision-language task that requires accurate diagram interpretation, mathematical reasoning, and robust cross-modal grounding. A foundational yet underexplored capability for this task is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Bing Liu , Wenqiang Yv , Xuzheng Yang , Shichang Wang , Junzhuo Liu , Peng Wang , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang , Heng Tao Shen

This paper addresses the generation of referring expressions that not only refer to objects correctly but also let humans find them quickly. As a target becomes relatively less salient, identifying referred objects itself becomes more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Mikihiro Tanaka , Takayuki Itamochi , Kenichi Narioka , Ikuro Sato , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Tatsuya Harada

Fine-grained image recognition has been a hot research topic in computer vision due to its various applications. The-state-of-the-art is the part/region-based approaches that first localize discriminative parts/regions, and then learn their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Peng Zhang , Xinyu Zhu , Zhanzhan Cheng , Shuigeng Zhou , Yi Niu

Referring image segmentation (RIS) requires accurate segmentation of target regions in images according to language descriptions, which is a cross-modal task integrating vision and language. Existing RIS methods typically employ large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chen Yang

This paper proposes a novel framework utilizing multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) for referring video object segmentation (RefVOS). Previous MLLM-based methods commonly struggle with the dilemma between "Ref" and "VOS": they either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Lang Lin , Xueyang Yu , Ziqi Pang , Yu-Xiong Wang

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

Language-driven image segmentation is a fundamental task in vision-language understanding, requiring models to segment regions of an image corresponding to natural language expressions. Traditional methods approach this as a discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Yuhao Chen , Shubin Chen , Liang Lin , Guangrun Wang

Zero-shot referring expression comprehension (REC) aims to locate target objects in images given natural language queries without relying on task-specific training data, demanding strong visual understanding capabilities. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yike Wu , Necva Bolucu , Stephen Wan , Dadong Wang , Jiahao Xia , Jian Zhang

This work addresses the task of open world semantic segmentation using RGBD sensing to discover new semantic classes over time. Although there are many types of objects in the real-word, current semantic segmentation methods make a closed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Yoshikatsu Nakajima , Byeongkeun Kang , Hideo Saito , Kris Kitani
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