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Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) - the problem of identifying objects in images through natural language sentences - is a challenging task currently mostly solved through supervised learning. However, while collecting referred annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Francisco Eiras , Kemal Oksuz , Adel Bibi , Philip H. S. Torr , Puneet K. Dokania

Text-driven infrared and visible image fusion has gained attention for enabling natural language to guide the fusion process. However, existing methods lack a goal-aligned task to supervise and evaluate how effectively the input text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Siju Ma , Changsiyu Gong , Xiaofeng Fan , Yong Ma , Chengjie Jiang

Many image restoration (IR) tasks require both pixel-level fidelity and high-level semantic understanding to recover realistic photos with fine-grained details. However, previous approaches often struggle to effectively leverage both the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Cuixin Yang , Rongkang Dong , Kin-Man Lam

The rapid advancement of generative models has intensified the challenge of detecting and interpreting visual forgeries, necessitating robust frameworks for image forgery detection while providing reasoning as well as localization. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Ipsita Praharaj , Yukta Butala , Badrikanath Praharaj , Yash Butala

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

Surgical image segmentation is essential for robot-assisted surgery and intraoperative guidance. However, existing methods are constrained to predefined categories, produce one-shot predictions without adaptive refinement, and lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Ange Lou , Yamin Li , Qi Chang , Nan Xi , Luyuan Xie , Zichao Li , Tianyu Luan

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

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

Referring image segmentation is a challenging task that involves generating pixel-wise segmentation masks based on natural language descriptions. The complexity of this task increases with the intricacy of the sentences provided. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Hai Nguyen-Truong , E-Ro Nguyen , Tuan-Anh Vu , Minh-Triet Tran , Binh-Son Hua , Sai-Kit Yeung

Vision-language models, such as CLIP, have achieved significant success in aligning visual and textual representations, becoming essential components of many multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) like LLaVA and OpenFlamingo. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Shizhan Gong , Yankai Jiang , Qi Dou , Farzan Farnia

Aligning visual features with language embeddings is a key challenge in vision-language models (VLMs). The performance of such models hinges on having a good connector that maps visual features generated by a vision encoder to a shared…

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) leverage aligned visual encoders to transform images into visual tokens, allowing them to be processed similarly to text by the backbone large language model (LLM). This unified input paradigm enables VLMs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Bangzheng Li , Fei Wang , Wenxuan Zhou , Nan Xu , Ben Zhou , Sheng Zhang , Hoifung Poon , Muhao Chen

As a novel and challenging task, referring segmentation combines computer vision and natural language processing to localize and segment objects based on textual descriptions. While referring image segmentation (RIS) has been extensively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Rui Li , Xiaowei Zhao

Most state-of-the-art semi-supervised video object segmentation methods rely on a pixel-accurate mask of a target object provided for the first frame of a video. However, obtaining a detailed segmentation mask is expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Anna Khoreva , Anna Rohrbach , Bernt Schiele

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

Referring image segmentation (RIS) aims to segment a particular region based on a language expression prompt. Existing methods incorporate linguistic features into visual features and obtain multi-modal features for mask decoding. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Mengxi Zhang , Yiming Liu , Xiangjun Yin , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang

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) 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

Medical image segmentation typically relies solely on visual data, overlooking the rich textual information clinicians use for diagnosis. Vision-language models attempt to bridge this gap, but existing approaches often process visual and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Rafi Ibn Sultan , Hui Zhu , Chengyin Li , Dongxiao Zhu

Recent Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) demonstrate promising capabilities in unifying visual understanding and generative modeling, enabling both accurate content understanding and flexible editing. However, current approaches treat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Fan Yang , Yousong Zhu , Xin Li , Yufei Zhan , Hongyin Zhao , Shurong Zheng , Yaowei Wang , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang