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Referring video object segmentation aims to segment a referent throughout a video sequence according to a natural language expression. It requires aligning the natural language expression with the objects' motions and their dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Jiajin Tang , Ge Zheng , Sibei Yang

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is a vision-language task that localizes a specific image region based on a textual description. Existing REC benchmarks primarily evaluate perceptual capabilities and lack interpretable scoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Tianyi Gao , Hao Li , Han Fang , Xin Wei , Xiaodong Dong , Hongbo Sun , Ye Yuan , Zhongjiang He , Jinglin Xu , Jingmin Xin , Hao Sun

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 Expression Comprehension (REC) is one of the most important tasks in visual reasoning that requires a model to detect the target object referred by a natural language expression. Among the proposed pipelines, the one-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Zhipeng Zhang , Zhimin Wei , Zhongzhen Huang , Rui Niu , Peng Wang

Referring Expressions Generation (REG) aims to produce textual descriptions that unambiguously identifies specific objects within a visual scene. Traditionally, this has been achieved through supervised learning methods, which perform well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Lior Bracha , Eitan Shaar , Aviv Shamsian , Ethan Fetaya , Gal Chechik

Zero-shot referring expression comprehension (REC) aims to locate target objects in images given natural language queries without relying on task-specific training data, demanding strong visual understanding capabilities. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yike Wu , Necva Bolucu , Stephen Wan , Dadong Wang , Jiahao Xia , Jian Zhang

Audio-guided Video Object Segmentation (A-VOS) and Referring Video Object Segmentation (R-VOS) are two highly related tasks that both aim to segment specific objects from video sequences according to expression prompts. However, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Jiajun Chen , Jiacheng Lin , Guojin Zhong , Haolong Fu , Ke Nai , Kailun Yang , Zhiyong Li

One common belief is that with complex models and pre-training on large-scale datasets, transformer-based methods for referring expression comprehension (REC) perform much better than existing graph-based methods. We observe that since most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Jingcheng Ke , Dele Wang , Jun-Cheng Chen , I-Hong Jhuo , Chia-Wen Lin , Yen-Yu Lin

Video-Question-Answering (VideoQA) comprises the capturing of complex visual relation changes over time, remaining a challenge even for advanced Video Language Models (VLM), i.a., because of the need to represent the visual content to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Sofian Chaybouti , Walid Bousselham , Moritz Wolter , Hilde Kuehne

Referring image segmentation is a fundamental vision-language task that aims to segment out an object referred to by a natural language expression from an image. One of the key challenges behind this task is leveraging the referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Zhao Yang , Jiaqi Wang , Yansong Tang , Kai Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip H. S. Torr

This paper tackles a recently proposed Video Corpus Moment Retrieval task. This task is essential because advanced video retrieval applications should enable users to retrieve a precise moment from a large video corpus. We propose a novel…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Zhijian Hou , Chong-Wah Ngo , Wing Kwong Chan

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

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

Referring video object segmentation aims to segment the object referred by a given language expression. Existing works typically require compressed video bitstream to be decoded to RGB frames before being segmented, which increases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Weidong Chen , Dexiang Hong , Yuankai Qi , Zhenjun Han , Shuhui Wang , Laiyun Qing , Qingming Huang , Guorong Li

Referring Expression Generation (REG) aims to generate unambiguous Referring Expressions (REs) for objects in a visual scene, with a dual task of Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) to locate the referred object. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Fulong Ye , Yuxing Long , Fangxiang Feng , Xiaojie Wang

Referring expression counting (REC) algorithms are for more flexible and interactive counting ability across varied fine-grained text expressions. However, the requirement for fine-grained attribute understanding poses challenges for prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zhicheng Wang , Zhiyu Pan , Zhan Peng , Jian Cheng , Liwen Xiao , Wei Jiang , Zhiguo Cao

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 (REC) is a crucial cross-modal task that objectively evaluates the capabilities of language understanding, image comprehension, and language-to-image grounding. Consequently, it serves as an ideal testing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Junzhuo Liu , Xuzheng Yang , Weiwei Li , Peng Wang

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) requires segmenting the object in video referred by a natural language query. Existing methods mainly rely on sophisticated pipelines to tackle such cross-modal task, and do not explicitly model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Ping Li , Yu Zhang , Li Yuan , Xianghua Xu

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) aims to identify a particular object in a scene by a natural language expression, and is an important topic in visual language understanding. State-of-the-art methods for this task are based on deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Luca Parolari , Elena Izzo , Lamberto Ballan