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In this paper we approach the novel problem of segmenting an image based on a natural language expression. This is different from traditional semantic segmentation over a predefined set of semantic classes, as e.g., the phrase "two men…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Ronghang Hu , Marcus Rohrbach , Trevor Darrell

Referring video segmentation aims to segment the corresponding video object described by the language expression. To address this task, we first design a two-stream encoder to extract CNN-based visual features and transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Guang Feng , Lihe Zhang , Zhiwei Hu , Huchuan Lu

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 segmentation grounds natural-language queries to pixel-level masks, but extending it to complex scenarios with multiple instances, cross-category groups, or open-ended target sets remains challenging. Previous Large Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zhixiong Zhang , Yizhuo Li , Shuangrui Ding , Yuhang Zang , Shengyuan Ding , Long Xing , Yibin Wang , Qiaosheng Zhang , Jiaqi Wang

Referring segmentation aims to generate a segmentation mask for the target instance indicated by a natural language expression. There are typically two kinds of existing methods: one-stage methods that directly perform segmentation on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Chang Liu , Xudong Jiang , Henghui Ding

We investigate Referring Image Segmentation (RIS), which outputs a segmentation map corresponding to the natural language description. Addressing RIS efficiently requires considering the interactions happening across visual and linguistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Kanishk Jain , Vineet Gandhi

Referring Image Segmentation is a comprehensive task to segment an object referred by a textual query from an image. In nature, the level of difficulty in this task is affected by the existence of similar objects and the complexity of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Seongsu Ha , Chaeyun Kim , Donghwa Kim , Junho Lee , Sangho Lee , Joonseok Lee

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

Recently, referring image segmentation has aroused widespread interest. Previous methods perform the multi-modal fusion between language and vision at the decoding side of the network. And, linguistic feature interacts with visual feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Guang Feng , Zhiwei Hu , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Given a reference object of an unknown type in an image, human observers can effortlessly find the objects of the same category in another image and precisely tell their visual boundaries. Such visual cognition capability of humans seems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Lechao Cheng , Zunlei Feng , Xinchao Wang , Ya Jie Liu , Jie Lei , Mingli Song

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

As an important step towards visual reasoning, visual grounding (e.g., phrase localization, referring expression comprehension/segmentation) has been widely explored Previous approaches to referring expression comprehension (REC) or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Muchen Li , Leonid Sigal

Referring image segmentation aims to segment the image region of interest according to the given language expression, which is a typical multi-modal task. Existing methods either adopt the pixel classification-based or the learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Zhichao Wei , Xiaohao Chen , Mingqiang Chen , Siyu Zhu

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

Given a natural language expression and an image/video, the goal of referring segmentation is to produce the pixel-level masks of the entities described by the subject of the expression. Previous approaches tackle this problem by implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Si Liu , Tianrui Hui , Shaofei Huang , Yunchao Wei , Bo Li , Guanbin Li

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

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

We present REM, a framework for segmenting a wide range of concepts in video that can be described through natural language. Our method leverages the universal visual-language mapping learned by video diffusion models on Internet-scale data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Anurag Bagchi , Zhipeng Bao , Yu-Xiong Wang , Pavel Tokmakov , Martial Hebert

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

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