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Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) requires models to localize objects in images based on natural language descriptions. Research on the area remains predominantly English-centric, despite increasing global deployment demands. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Francisco Nogueira , Alexandre Bernardino , Bruno Martins

We propose FindIt, a simple and versatile framework that unifies a variety of visual grounding and localization tasks including referring expression comprehension, text-based localization, and object detection. Key to our architecture is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Weicheng Kuo , Fred Bertsch , Wei Li , AJ Piergiovanni , Mohammad Saffar , Anelia Angelova

Multimodal referring segmentation aims to segment target objects in visual scenes, such as images, videos, and 3D scenes, based on referring expressions in text or audio format. This task plays a crucial role in practical applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Henghui Ding , Song Tang , Shuting He , Chang Liu , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

We study the problem of completing various visual document understanding (VDU) tasks, e.g., question answering and information extraction, on real-world documents through human-written instructions. To this end, we propose InstructDoc, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Ryota Tanaka , Taichi Iki , Kyosuke Nishida , Kuniko Saito , Jun Suzuki

Many objects in the real world undergo dramatic variations in visual appearance. For example, a tomato may be red or green, sliced or chopped, fresh or fried, liquid or solid. Training a single detector to accurately recognize tomatoes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Gedas Bertasius , Lorenzo Torresani

Deriving reliable region-word alignment from image-text pairs is critical to learn object-level vision-language representations for open-vocabulary object detection. Existing methods typically rely on pre-trained or self-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Chuofan Ma , Yi Jiang , Xin Wen , Zehuan Yuan , Xiaojuan Qi

We propose an end-to-end approach to the natural language object retrieval task, which localizes an object within an image according to a natural language description, i.e., referring expression. Previous works divide this problem into two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Fan Wu , Zhongwen Xu , Yi Yang

Embodied Reference Understanding requires identifying a target object in a visual scene based on both language instructions and pointing cues. While prior works have shown progress in open-vocabulary object detection, they often fail in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Fevziye Irem Eyiokur , Dogucan Yaman , Hazım Kemal Ekenel , Alexander Waibel

Different from universal object detection, referring expression comprehension (REC) aims to locate specific objects referred to by natural language expressions. The expression provides high-level concepts of relevant visual and contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Wei Su , Peihan Miao , Huanzhang Dou , Yongjian Fu , Xi Li

The advancement of object detection (OD) in open-vocabulary and open-world scenarios is a critical challenge in computer vision. This work introduces OmDet, a novel language-aware object detection architecture, and an innovative training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Tiancheng Zhao , Peng Liu , Kyusong Lee

Oriented object detection has been rapidly developed in the past few years, but most of these methods assume the training and testing images are under the same statistical distribution, which is far from reality. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Qi Bi , Beichen Zhou , Jingjun Yi , Wei Ji , Haolan Zhan , Gui-Song Xia

We consider the problem of referring camouflaged object detection (Ref-COD), a new task that aims to segment specified camouflaged objects based on a small set of referring images with salient target objects. We first assemble a large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xuying Zhang , Bowen Yin , Zheng Lin , Qibin Hou , Deng-Ping Fan , Ming-Ming Cheng

Advances in perception modeling have significantly improved the performance of object tracking. However, the current methods for specifying the target object in the initial frame are either by 1) using a box or mask template, or by 2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Jiawen Zhu , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Jun-Yan He , Chenyang Li , Bin Luo , Huchuan Lu , Yifeng Geng , Xuansong Xie

Instruction-based image editing has made a great process in using natural human language to manipulate the visual content of images. However, existing models are limited by the quality of the dataset and cannot accurately localize editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Tiancheng Li , Jinxiu Liu , Huajun Chen , Qi Liu

Most models tasked to ground referential utterances in 2D and 3D scenes learn to select the referred object from a pool of object proposals provided by a pre-trained detector. This is limiting because an utterance may refer to visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Ayush Jain , Nikolaos Gkanatsios , Ishita Mediratta , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Many open-world applications require the detection of novel objects, yet state-of-the-art object detection and instance segmentation networks do not excel at this task. The key issue lies in their assumption that regions without any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Kuniaki Saito , Ping Hu , Trevor Darrell , Kate Saenko

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

User representation modeling has become increasingly crucial for personalized applications, yet existing approaches struggle with generalizability across domains and sensitivity to noisy behavioral signals. We present InstructUE, an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Ziyi Gao , Yike Xu , Jiahao Yuan , Baokun Wang , Jinyong Wen , Xiaotong Lin , Yun Liu , Xing Fu , Yu Cheng , Yongchao Liu , Weiqiang Wang , Zhongle Xie

Human intelligence can retrieve any person according to both visual and language descriptions. However, the current computer vision community studies specific person re-identification (ReID) tasks in different scenarios separately, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Weizhen He , Yiheng Deng , Yunfeng Yan , Feng Zhu , Yizhou Wang , Lei Bai , Qingsong Xie , Donglian Qi , Wanli Ouyang , Shixiang Tang

With the rapid advancement of remote sensing technology, high-resolution multi-modal imagery is now more widely accessible. Conventional Object detection models are trained on a single dataset, often restricted to a specific imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yuxuan Li , Xiang Li , Yunheng Li , Yicheng Zhang , Yimian Dai , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jian Yang