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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

Referring image segmentation is a typical multi-modal task, which aims at generating a binary mask for referent described in given language expressions. Prior arts adopt a bimodal solution, taking images and languages as two modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Zizhang Li , Mengmeng Wang , Jianbiao Mei , Yong Liu

We propose a novel AutoRegressive Generation-based paradigm for image Segmentation (ARGenSeg), achieving multimodal understanding and pixel-level perception within a unified framework. Prior works integrating image segmentation into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xiaolong Wang , Lixiang Ru , Ziyuan Huang , Kaixiang Ji , Dandan Zheng , Jingdong Chen , Jun Zhou

Text-to-image retrieval (TIR) aims to find relevant images based on a textual query, but existing approaches are primarily based on whole-image captions and lack interpretability. Meanwhile, referring expression segmentation (RES) enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Li-Cheng Shen , Jih-Kang Hsieh , Wei-Hua Li , Chu-Song Chen

In this work, we address the task of referring image segmentation (RIS), which aims at predicting a segmentation mask for the object described by a natural language expression. Most existing methods focus on establishing unidirectional or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Jianhua Yang , Yan Huang , Zhanyu Ma , Liang Wang

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) is a widely explored multi-modal task, which endeavors to segment the pre-existing object within a single image with a given linguistic expression. However, in broader real-world scenarios, it is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yixuan Wu , Zhao Zhang , Xie Chi , Feng Zhu , Rui Zhao

In contrast to the abundant research focusing on large-scale models, the progress in lightweight semantic segmentation appears to be advancing at a comparatively slower pace. However, existing compact methods often suffer from limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Guoan Xu , Wenjing Jia , Tao Wu , Ligeng Chen

Text-to-image generation has witnessed great progress, especially with the recent advancements in diffusion models. Since texts cannot provide detailed conditions like object appearance, reference images are usually leveraged for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Zhiqi Huang , Huixin Xiong , Haoyu Wang , Longguang Wang , Zhiheng Li

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) is a fundamental vision-language task that outputs object masks based on text descriptions. Many works have achieved considerable progress for RIS, including different fusion method designs. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Jianzong Wu , Xiangtai Li , Xia Li , Henghui Ding , Yunhai Tong , Dacheng Tao

Few-shot segmentation aims to learn a segmentation model that can be generalized to novel classes with only a few training images. In this paper, we propose a Cross-Reference and Local-Global Conditional Networks (CRCNet) for few-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Weide Liu , Chi Zhang , Guosheng Lin , Fayao Liu

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) aims to segment the object in an image uniquely referred to by a natural language expression. However, RIS training often contains hard-to-align and instance-specific visual signals; optimizing on such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Tongfei Chen , Shuo Yang , Yuguang Yang , Linlin Yang , Runtang Guo , Changbai Li , He Long , Chunyu Xie , Dawei Leng , Baochang Zhang

The task of video object segmentation with referring expressions (language-guided VOS) is to, given a linguistic phrase and a video, generate binary masks for the object to which the phrase refers. Our work argues that existing benchmarks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Miriam Bellver , Carles Ventura , Carina Silberer , Ioannis Kazakos , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) aims to localize the target objects specified by free-form natural language descriptions in images. While state-of-the-art methods achieve impressive performance, they perform a dense perception of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Wei Su , Peihan Miao , Huanzhang Dou , Xi Li

We present Moondream Segmentation, a referring image segmentation extension of Moondream 3, a vision-language model. Given an image and a referring expression, the model autoregressively decodes a vector path and iteratively refines the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Ethan Reid

We address the problem of segmenting an object given a natural language expression that describes it. Current techniques tackle this task by either (\textit{i}) directly or recursively merging linguistic and visual information in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Edgar Margffoy-Tuay , Juan C. Pérez , Emilio Botero , Pablo Arbeláez

Referring image segmentation aims to segment the target referent in an image conditioning on a natural language expression. Existing one-stage methods employ per-pixel classification frameworks, which attempt straightforwardly to align…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jiajin Tang , Ge Zheng , Cheng Shi , Sibei Yang

Referring image segmentation aims to segment an object referred to by natural language expression from an image. The primary challenge lies in the efficient propagation of fine-grained semantic information from textual features to visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Yichen Yan , Xingjian He , Sihan Chen , Jing Liu

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

Referring expression comprehension (REC) aims to localize a target object in an image described by a referring expression phrased in natural language. Different from the object detection task that queried object labels have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Yanyuan Qiao , Chaorui Deng , Qi Wu

We propose a Multifaceted Resilient Network(MRNet), a novel architecture developed for medical image-to-image translation that outperforms state-of-the-art methods in MRI-to-CT and MRI-to-MRI conversion. MRNet leverages the Segment Anything…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-05 Hyojeong Lee , Youngwan Jo , Inpyo Hong , Sanghyun Park