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Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment target objects throughout a video based on a text description. This is challenging as it involves deep vision-language understanding, pixel-level dense prediction and spatiotemporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Tianming Liang , Kun-Yu Lin , Chaolei Tan , Jianguo Zhang , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jian-Fang Hu

We consider the problem of referring image segmentation. Given an input image and a natural language expression, the goal is to segment the object referred by the language expression in the image. Existing works in this area treat the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Linwei Ye , Mrigank Rochan , Zhi Liu , Yang Wang

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

In this paper, we present and study a new image segmentation task, called Generalized Open-set Semantic Segmentation (GOSS). Previously, with the well-known open-set semantic segmentation (OSS), the intelligent agent only detects the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Jie Hong , Weihao Li , Junlin Han , Jiyang Zheng , Pengfei Fang , Mehrtash Harandi , Lars Petersson

Given an image and a natural language expression as input, the goal of referring image segmentation is to segment the foreground masks of the entities referred by the expression. Existing methods mainly focus on interactive learning between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Jianjian Cao , Beiya Dai , Yulin Li , Xiameng Qin , Jingdong Wang

This work introduces composed image retrieval to remote sensing. It allows to query a large image archive by image examples alternated by a textual description, enriching the descriptive power over unimodal queries, either visual or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Bill Psomas , Ioannis Kakogeorgiou , Nikos Efthymiadis , Giorgos Tolias , Ondrej Chum , Yannis Avrithis , Konstantinos Karantzalos

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

The handling of long videos with complex and occluded sequences has recently emerged as a new challenge in the video instance segmentation (VIS) community. However, existing methods have limitations in addressing this challenge. We argue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Miran Heo , Sukjun Hwang , Jeongseok Hyun , Hanjung Kim , Seoung Wug Oh , Joon-Young Lee , Seon Joo Kim

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) is a task that aims to segment the target object in all video frames based on a sentence describing the object. Although existing RVOS methods have achieved significant performance, they depend on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Wangbo Zhao , Kepan Nan , Songyang Zhang , Kai Chen , Dahua Lin , Yang You

The rich textual information of large vision-language models (VLMs) combined with the powerful generative prior of pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models has achieved impressive performance in single-image super-resolution (SISR).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Haodong He , Yancheng Bai , Rui Lan , Xu Duan , Lei Sun , Xiangxiang Chu , Gui-Song Xia

We study visual explanation in geometry education as a Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) problem: given a diagram and a natural language description, the task is to produce a pixel-level mask for the referred geometric element. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Hai Nguyen-Truong , Alper Balbay , Tunga Bayrak

In recent years, the task of segmenting foreground objects from background in a video, i.e. video object segmentation (VOS), has received considerable attention. In this paper, we propose a single end-to-end trainable deep neural network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Ye Lyu , George Vosselman , Gui-Song Xia , Michael Ying Yang

In this paper we are interested in the problem of image segmentation given natural language descriptions, i.e. referring expressions. Existing works tackle this problem by first modeling images and sentences independently and then segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Chenxi Liu , Zhe Lin , Xiaohui Shen , Jimei Yang , Xin Lu , Alan Yuille

Open-vocabulary segmentation (OVS) extends the zero-shot recognition capabilities of vision-language models (VLMs) to pixel-level prediction, enabling segmentation of arbitrary categories specified by text prompts. Despite recent progress,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Tilemachos Aravanis , Vladan Stojnić , Bill Psomas , Nikos Komodakis , Giorgos Tolias

3D Referring Expression Segmentation (3D-RES) is dedicated to segmenting a specific instance within a 3D space based on a natural language description. However, current approaches are limited to segmenting a single target, restricting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Changli Wu , Yihang Liu , Jiayi Ji , Yiwei Ma , Haowei Wang , Gen Luo , Henghui Ding , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

We introduce segmentation-free guidance, a novel method designed for text-to-image diffusion models like Stable Diffusion. Our method does not require retraining of the diffusion model. At no additional compute cost, it uses the diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Kambiz Azarian , Debasmit Das , Qiqi Hou , Fatih Porikli

Generalizable image-based person re-identification (Re-ID) aims to recognize individuals across cameras in unseen domains without retraining. While multiple existing approaches address the domain gap through complex architectures, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Timur Mamedov , Karina Kvanchiani , Anton Konushin , Vadim Konushin

Interactive image segmentation(IIS) plays a critical role in generating precise annotations for remote sensing imagery, where objects often exhibit scale variations, irregular boundaries and complex backgrounds. However, existing IIS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Deliang Wang , Peng Liu , Yan Ma , Rongkai Zhuang , Lajiao Chen , Bing Li , Yi Zeng

In this paper we propose a vision system that performs image Super Resolution (SR) with selectivity. Conventional SR techniques, either by multi-image fusion or example-based construction, have failed to capitalize on the intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-10-28 Ju Sun , Qiang Chen , Shuicheng Yan , Loong-Fah Cheong

Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (RRSIS) is a new challenge that combines computer vision and natural language processing, delineating specific regions in aerial images as described by textual queries. Traditional Referring Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Sihan Liu , Yiwei Ma , Xiaoqing Zhang , Haowei Wang , Jiayi Ji , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji