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With the rise of multimodal learning, image retrieval plays a crucial role in connecting visual information with natural language queries. Existing image retrievers struggle with processing long texts and handling unclear user expressions.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yuan Hu , ZhiYu Cao , PeiFeng Li , QiaoMing Zhu

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

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) aims to segment a target object described by a natural language expression. Existing methods have evolved by leveraging the vision information into the language tokens. To more effectively exploit visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yubin Cho , Hyunwoo Yu , Kyeongbo Kong , Kyomin Sohn , Bongjoon Hyun , Suk-Ju Kang

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) aims to generate a segmentation mask for the object described by a given language expression. Existing classic RES datasets and methods commonly support single-target expressions only, i.e., one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Chang Liu , Henghui Ding , Xudong Jiang

Referring expression segmentation (RES), a task that involves localizing specific instance-level objects based on free-form linguistic descriptions, has emerged as a crucial frontier in human-AI interaction. It demands an intricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Ying Zang , Chenglong Fu , Runlong Cao , Didi Zhu , Min Zhang , Wenjun Hu , Lanyun Zhu , Tianrun Chen

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS), which aims to segment specific objects based on natural language descriptions, plays an essential role in vision-language understanding. Despite its progress in remote sensing applications, RIS in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Kai Ye , YingShi Luan , Zhudi Chen , Guangyue Meng , Pingyang Dai , Liujuan Cao

Learning image representations to capture fine-grained semantics has been a challenging and important task enabling many applications such as image search and clustering. In this paper, we present Graph-Regularized Image Semantic Embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Da-Cheng Juan , Chun-Ta Lu , Zhen Li , Futang Peng , Aleksei Timofeev , Yi-Ting Chen , Yaxi Gao , Tom Duerig , Andrew Tomkins , Sujith Ravi

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) aims at segmenting the foreground masks of the entities that match the descriptive natural language expression. Previous datasets and methods for classic RES task heavily rely on the prior assumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Wenxuan Wang , Tongtian Yue , Yisi Zhang , Longteng Guo , Xingjian He , Xinlong Wang , Jing Liu

Generalized Referring expressions can describe one object, several related objects, or none at all. Existing generalized referring segmentation (GRES) models treat all cases alike, predicting a single binary mask and ignoring how linguistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 E-Ro Nguyen , Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras , Michael S. Ryoo

Referring expression segmentation (RES) aims at segmenting the entities' masks that match the descriptive language expression. While traditional RES methods primarily address object-level grounding, real-world scenarios demand a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Jing Liu , Wenxuan Wang , Yisi Zhang , Yepeng Tang , Xingjian He , Longteng Guo , Tongtian Yue , Xinlong Wang

Referring image segmentation aims to segment the objects referred by a natural language expression. Previous methods usually focus on designing an implicit and recurrent feature interaction mechanism to fuse the visual-linguistic features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Ya Jing , Tao Kong , Wei Wang , Liang Wang , Lei Li , Tieniu Tan

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved impressive results on vision-language benchmarks, yet it remains unclear whether these benchmarks assess genuine global reasoning or allow success via localized visual cues. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Amit Agarwal , Hitesh Laxmichand Patel , Srikant Panda , Hansa Meghwani , Jyotika Singh , Karan Dua , Paul Li , Tao Sheng , Sujith Ravi , Dan Roth

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVS) aims to segment images of arbitrary categories specified by class labels or captions. However, most previous best-performing methods, whether pixel grouping methods or region recognition methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yuan Wang , Rui Sun , Naisong Luo , Yuwen Pan , Tianzhu Zhang

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

Referring Expression Comprehension and Segmentation are critical tasks for assessing the integration of language understanding and image comprehension, serving as benchmarks for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) capabilities. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Qihua Dong , Luis Figueroa , Handong Zhao , Kushal Kafle , Jason Kuen , Zhihong Ding , Scott Cohen , Yun Fu

Referring segmentation aims to segment the target objects in images or videos based on the textual query. Despite remarkable progress over the past years, existing works always assume that the user-provided queries are already precise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yuting Yang , Haichao Jiang , Tianming Liang , Quan Zhang , Jian-Fang Hu

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is a popular multimodal task that aims to accurately detect target objects within a single image based on a given textual expression. However, due to the limitations of earlier models, traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Guanghao Jin , Jingpei Wu , Tianpei Guo , Yiyi Niu , Weidong Zhou , Guoyang Liu

Referring image segmentation (RIS) aims to segment an object mentioned in natural language from an image. The main challenge is text-to-pixel fine-grained correlation. In the previous methods, the final results are obtained by convolutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yichen Yan , Xingjian He , Wenxuan Wang , Sihan Chen , Jing Liu

Visual question answering (VQA) has been intensively studied as a multimodal task that requires effort in bridging vision and language to infer answers correctly. Recent attempts have developed various attention-based modules for solving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Siyu Zhang , Yeming Chen , Yaoru Sun , Fang Wang , Haibo Shi , Haoran Wang