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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

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

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

Deep neural network-based semantic segmentation generally requires large-scale cost extensive annotations for training to obtain better performance. To avoid pixel-wise segmentation annotations which are needed for most methods, recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Longlong Jing , Yucheng Chen , Yingli Tian

Recent studies have shown remarkable success in unsupervised image-to-image translation. However, if there has no access to enough images in target classes, learning a mapping from source classes to the target classes always suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Yuanqi Chen , Xiaoming Yu , Shan Liu , Ge Li

We tackle open-world semantic segmentation, which aims at learning to segment arbitrary visual concepts in images, by using only image-text pairs without dense annotations. Existing open-world segmentation methods have shown impressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Junbum Cha , Jonghwan Mun , Byungseok Roh

We propose an approach to instance-level image segmentation that is built on top of category-level segmentation. Specifically, for each pixel in a semantic category mask, its corresponding instance bounding box is predicted using a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Zifeng Wu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Recently, CLIP has been applied to pixel-level zero-shot learning tasks via a two-stage scheme. The general idea is to first generate class-agnostic region proposals and then feed the cropped proposal regions to CLIP to utilize its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ziqin Zhou , Bowen Zhang , Yinjie Lei , Lingqiao Liu , Yifan Liu

We propose MinVIS, a minimal video instance segmentation (VIS) framework that achieves state-of-the-art VIS performance with neither video-based architectures nor training procedures. By only training a query-based image instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 De-An Huang , Zhiding Yu , Anima Anandkumar

Large web-sourced multimodal datasets have powered a slew of new methods for learning general-purpose visual representations, advancing the state of the art in computer vision and revolutionizing zero- and few-shot recognition. One crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Pratyush Maini , Sachin Goyal , Zachary C. Lipton , J. Zico Kolter , Aditi Raghunathan

Semantic segmentation is a fundamental task in medical image analysis and autonomous driving and has a problem with the high cost of annotating the labels required in training. To address this problem, semantic segmentation methods based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Nagito Saito , Shintaro Ito , Koichi Ito , Takafumi Aoki

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) is a task that segments image regions based on language expressions, requiring fine-grained alignment between two modalities. However, existing methods often struggle with multimodal misalignment and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Qianqi Lu , Yuxiang Xie , Jing Zhang , Shiwei Zou , Yan Chen , Xidao Luan

We introduce a method to train vision-language models for remote-sensing images without using any textual annotations. Our key insight is to use co-located internet imagery taken on the ground as an intermediary for connecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Utkarsh Mall , Cheng Perng Phoo , Meilin Kelsey Liu , Carl Vondrick , Bharath Hariharan , Kavita Bala

The objective of Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) is to localise the sounding objects within visual scenes by accurately predicting pixel-wise segmentation masks. To tackle the task, it involves a comprehensive consideration of both the data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Jinxiang Liu , Yu Wang , Chen Ju , Chaofan Ma , Ya Zhang , Weidi Xie

The CLIP model has been recently proven to be very effective for a variety of cross-modal tasks, including the evaluation of captions generated from vision-and-language architectures. In this paper, we propose a new recipe for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Sara Sarto , Manuele Barraco , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Semantic segmentation is a key computer vision task that has been actively researched for decades. In recent years, supervised methods have reached unprecedented accuracy, however they require many pixel-level annotations for every new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Nir Zabari , Yedid Hoshen

Due to the resource-intensive nature of training vision-language models on expansive video data, a majority of studies have centered on adapting pre-trained image-language models to the video domain. Dominant pipelines propose to tackle the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Tongjia Chen , Hongshan Yu , Zhengeng Yang , Zechuan Li , Wei Sun , Chen Chen

Image-text contrastive learning models such as CLIP have demonstrated strong task transfer ability. The high generality and usability of these visual models is achieved via a web-scale data collection process to ensure broad concept…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Haotian Liu , Kilho Son , Jianwei Yang , Ce Liu , Jianfeng Gao , Yong Jae Lee , Chunyuan Li

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

This paper presents a novel training-free framework for open-vocabulary image segmentation and object recognition (OVSR), which leverages EfficientNetB0, a convolutional neural network, for unsupervised segmentation and CLIP, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ying Dai , Wei Yu Chen