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Semantic segmentation involves assigning a specific category to each pixel in an image. While Vision Transformer-based models have made significant progress, current semantic segmentation methods often struggle with precise predictions in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Guoan Xu , Wenfeng Huang , Tao Wu , Ligeng Chen , Wenjing Jia , Guangwei Gao , Xiatian Zhu , Stuart Perry

Referring Camouflaged Object Detection (Ref-COD) segments specified camouflaged objects in a scene by leveraging a small set of referring images. Though effective, current systems adopt a dual-branch design that requires reference images at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yu-Huan Wu , Zi-Xuan Zhu , Yan Wang , Liangli Zhen , Deng-Ping Fan

Image-text retrieval has developed rapidly in recent years. However, it is still a challenge in remote sensing due to visual-semantic imbalance, which leads to incorrect matching of non-semantic visual and textual features. To solve this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Qing Ma , Jiancheng Pan , Cong Bai

Matching images and sentences demands a fine understanding of both modalities. In this paper, we propose a new system to discriminatively embed the image and text to a shared visual-textual space. In this field, most existing works apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Zhedong Zheng , Liang Zheng , Michael Garrett , Yi Yang , Mingliang Xu , Yi-Dong Shen

Real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) has achieved a remarkable leap by leveraging large-scale text-to-image models, enabling realistic image restoration from given recognition textual prompts. However, these methods sometimes fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Jiahua Xiao , Jiawei Zhang , Dongqing Zou , Xiaodan Zhang , Jimmy Ren , Xing Wei

Referring segmentation aims to segment a target object related to a natural language expression. Key challenges of this task are understanding the meaning of complex and ambiguous language expressions and determining the relevant regions in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Yubin Cho , Hyunwoo Yu , Suk-ju Kang

Image to image translation aims to learn a mapping that transforms an image from one visual domain to another. Recent works assume that images descriptors can be disentangled into a domain-invariant content representation and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Raul Gomez , Yahui Liu , Marco De Nadai , Dimosthenis Karatzas , Bruno Lepri , Nicu Sebe

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

Compression technology is essential for efficient image transmission and storage. With the rapid advances in deep learning, images are beginning to be used for image recognition as well as for human vision. For this reason, research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Takahiro Shindo , Taiju Watanabe , Kein Yamada , Hiroshi Watanabe

Referring expression comprehension (REF) aims at identifying a particular object in a scene by a natural language expression. It requires joint reasoning over the textual and visual domains to solve the problem. Some popular referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Zhenfang Chen , Peng Wang , Lin Ma , Kwan-Yee K. Wong , Qi Wu

In-context segmentation has drawn increasing attention with the advent of vision foundation models. Its goal is to segment objects using given reference images. Most existing approaches adopt metric learning or masked image modeling to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chaoyang Wang , Xiangtai Li , Henghui Ding , Lu Qi , Jiangning Zhang , Yunhai Tong , Chen Change Loy , Shuicheng Yan

Modern Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) typically operate in low-level Variational Autoencoder (VAE) latent spaces that are primarily optimized for pixel-level reconstruction. To unify vision generation and understanding, a burgeoning trend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Shilong Zhang , He Zhang , Zhifei Zhang , Chongjian Ge , Shuchen Xue , Shaoteng Liu , Mengwei Ren , Soo Ye Kim , Yuqian Zhou , Qing Liu , Daniil Pakhomov , Kai Zhang , Zhe Lin , Ping Luo

Remote sensing imagery has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its instrumental role in global environmental monitoring, land usage monitoring, and more. As image databases grow each year, performing automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jielu Zhang , Zhongliang Zhou , Gengchen Mai , Mengxuan Hu , Zihan Guan , Sheng Li , Lan Mu

Recent advances of image-to-image translation focus on learning the one-to-many mapping from two aspects: multi-modal translation and multi-domain translation. However, the existing methods only consider one of the two perspectives, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Xiaoming Yu , Yuanqi Chen , Thomas Li , Shan Liu , Ge Li

Human-centric perceptions play a crucial role in real-world applications. While recent human-centric works have achieved impressive progress, these efforts are often constrained to the visual domain and lack interaction with human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Jie Huang , Ruibing Hou , Jiahe Zhao , Hong Chang , Shiguang Shan

Reconstructing perceived images from human brain activity monitored by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is hard, especially for natural images. Existing methods often result in blurry and unintelligible reconstructions with low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Mali Halac , Murat Isik , Hasan Ayaz , Anup Das

Images may have elements containing text and a bounding box associated with them, for example, text identified via optical character recognition on a computer screen image, or a natural image with labeled objects. We present an end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Nevan Wichers , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Jindong Chen

Referring remote sensing image segmentation (RRSIS) enables the precise delineation of regions within remote sensing imagery through natural language descriptions, serving critical applications in disaster response, urban development, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Zhe Dong , Yuzhe Sun , Tianzhu Liu , Yanfeng Gu

We propose a novel method for unsupervised semantic image segmentation based on mutual information maximization between local and global high-level image features. The core idea of our work is to leverage recent progress in self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Robert Harb , Patrick Knöbelreiter

Visual grounding tasks, such as referring image segmentation (RIS) and referring expression comprehension (REC), aim to localize a target object based on a given textual description. The target object in an image can be described in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Seonghoon Yu , Junbeom Hong , Joonseok Lee , Jeany Son