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In this paper, we introduce the task of visual grounding for remote sensing data (RSVG). RSVG aims to localize the referred objects in remote sensing (RS) images with the guidance of natural language. To retrieve rich information from RS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Yang Zhan , Zhitong Xiong , Yuan Yuan

Remote sensing video referring object segmentation (RS-RVOS) is challenged by weak target saliency and severe visual information truncation in dynamic scenes, making it extremely difficult to maintain discriminative target representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 H. Jiang , Y. Sun , Z. Dong , T. Liu , Y. Gu

In this paper we are interested in the problem of image segmentation given natural language descriptions, i.e. referring expressions. Existing works tackle this problem by first modeling images and sentences independently and then segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Chenxi Liu , Zhe Lin , Xiaohui Shen , Jimei Yang , Xin Lu , Alan Yuille

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) is an emerging task in computer vision, which segments the target instances in images based on text descriptions. However, its development is plagued by the expensive segmentation labels. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Minglang Huang , Yiyi Zhou , Gen Luo , Guannan Jiang , Weilin Zhuang , Xiaoshuai Sun

Delineating farm boundaries through segmentation of satellite images is a fundamental step in many agricultural applications. The task is particularly challenging for smallholder farms, where accurate delineation requires the use of high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Aditi Agarwal , Anjali Jain , Nikita Saxena , Ishan Deshpande , Michal Kazmierski , Abigail Annkah , Nadav Sherman , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Alok Talekar , Vaibhav Rajan

The referring video object segmentation task (RVOS) aims to segment object instances in a given video referred by a language expression in all video frames. Due to the requirement of understanding cross-modal semantics within individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Leilei Cao , Zhuang Li , Bo Yan , Feng Zhang , Fengliang Qi , Yuchen Hu , Hongbin Wang

In response to the growing importance of geospatial data, its analysis including semantic segmentation becomes an increasingly popular task in computer vision today. Convolutional neural networks are powerful visual models that yield…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Alexey Bokhovkin , Evgeny Burnaev

Reference-based image super-resolution (RefSR) has shown promising success in recovering high-frequency details by utilizing an external reference image (Ref). In this task, texture details are transferred from the Ref image to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Liying Lu , Wenbo Li , Xin Tao , Jiangbo Lu , Jiaya Jia

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

Remote sensing image scene classification, which aims at labeling remote sensing images with a set of semantic categories based on their contents, has broad applications in a range of fields. Propelled by the powerful feature learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Gong Cheng , Xingxing Xie , Junwei Han , Lei Guo , Gui-Song Xia

We consider referring image segmentation. It is a problem at the intersection of computer vision and natural language understanding. Given an input image and a referring expression in the form of a natural language sentence, the goal is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Linwei Ye , Zhi Liu , Yang Wang

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

The spatial attention is a straightforward approach to enhance the performance for remote sensing image captioning. However, conventional spatial attention approaches consider only the attention distribution on one fixed coarse grid,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Chengze Wang , Zhiyu Jiang , Yuan Yuan

Remote sensing image scene classification plays an important role in a wide range of applications and hence has been receiving remarkable attention. During the past years, significant efforts have been made to develop various datasets or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Gong Cheng , Junwei Han , Xiaoqiang Lu

We consider the problem of referring segmentation in images and videos with natural language. Given an input image (or video) and a referring expression, the goal is to segment the entity referred by the expression in the image or video. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Linwei Ye , Mrigank Rochan , Zhi Liu , Xiaoqin Zhang , Yang Wang

Many computer vision systems require low-cost segmentation algorithms based on deep learning, either because of the enormous size of input images or limited computational budget. Common solutions uniformly downsample the input images to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Chen Jin , Ryutaro Tanno , Thomy Mertzanidou , Eleftheria Panagiotaki , Daniel C. Alexander

Semantic segmentation aims to robustly predict coherent class labels for entire regions of an image. It is a scene understanding task that powers real-world applications (e.g., autonomous navigation). One important application, the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Yuxiang Zhang , Sachin Mehta , Anat Caspi

Referring Image Understanding (RIS) has been extensively studied over the past decade, leading to the development of advanced algorithms. However, there has been a lack of research investigating how existing algorithms should be benchmarked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Wei Ji , Li Li , Hao Fei , Xiangyan Liu , Xun Yang , Juncheng Li , Roger Zimmermann

Referring image segmentation aims to produce a pixel-level mask for the image region described by a natural-language expression. Although pretrained vision-language models have improved semantic grounding, many existing methods still rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Alaa Dalaq , Muzammil Behzad

Large Vision and Language Models (LVLMs) have shown strong performance across various vision-language tasks in natural image domains. However, their application to remote sensing (RS) remains underexplored due to significant domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Sungjune Park , Yeongyun Kim , Se Yeon Kim , Yong Man Ro