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Open-set image segmentation poses a significant challenge because existing methods often demand extensive training or fine-tuning and generally struggle to segment unified objects consistently across diverse text reference expressions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Zhihua Liu , Amrutha Saseendran , Lei Tong , Xilin He , Fariba Yousefi , Nikolay Burlutskiy , Dino Oglic , Tom Diethe , Philip Teare , Huiyu Zhou , Chen Jin

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment target objects throughout a video based on a text description. This task has attracted increasing attention in the field of computer vision due to its promising applications in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Tianming Liang , Haichao Jiang , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jian-Fang Hu

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is an emerging research spot in computer vision, which refers to detecting the target region in an image given an text description. Most existing REC methods follow a multi-stage pipeline, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Yiyi Zhou , Rongrong Ji , Gen Luo , Xiaoshuai Sun , Jinsong Su , Xinghao Ding , Chia-wen Lin , Qi Tian

Image segmentation plays a crucial role in extracting important objects of interest from images, enabling various applications. While existing methods have shown success in segmenting clean images, they often struggle to produce accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Han Zhang , Daoping Zhang , Lok Ming Lui

Quantization has emerged as a promising direction for model compression. Recently, data-free quantization has been widely studied as a promising method to avoid privacy concerns, which synthesizes images as an alternative to real training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Jianhong Bai , Yuchen Yang , Huanpeng Chu , Hualiang Wang , Zuozhu Liu , Ruizhe Chen , Xiaoxuan He , Lianrui Mu , Chengfei Cai , Haoji Hu

Referring image segmentation aims to produce a pixel-level mask for the image region described by a natural-language expression. Although pretrained vision-language models have improved semantic grounding, many existing methods still rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Alaa Dalaq , Muzammil Behzad

For medical image analysis, segmentation models trained on one or several domains lack generalization ability to unseen domains due to discrepancies between different data acquisition policies. We argue that the degeneration in segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Ziqi Zhou , Lei Qi , Yinghuan Shi

In this work, we address the challenging task of referring segmentation. The query expression in referring segmentation typically indicates the target object by describing its relationship with others. Therefore, to find the target one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Henghui Ding , Chang Liu , Suchen Wang , Xudong Jiang

Recent advancements in multimodal vision models have highlighted limitations in late-stage feature fusion and suboptimal query selection for hybrid prompts open-world segmentation, alongside constraints from caption-derived vocabularies. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yuchen Guan , Chong Sun , Canmiao Fu , Zhipeng Huang , Chun Yuan , Chen Li

Remote sensing imagery has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its instrumental role in global environmental monitoring, land usage monitoring, and more. As image databases grow each year, performing automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jielu Zhang , Zhongliang Zhou , Gengchen Mai , Mengxuan Hu , Zihan Guan , Sheng Li , Lan Mu

Referring Video Object Segmentation (R-VOS) is a challenging task that aims to segment an object in a video based on a linguistic expression. Most existing R-VOS methods have a critical assumption: the object referred to must appear in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xiang Li , Jinglu Wang , Xiaohao Xu , Xiao Li , Bhiksha Raj , Yan Lu

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment objects in videos based on textual queries. Current methods mainly rely on large-scale supervised fine-tuning (SFT) of Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Haichao Jiang , Tianming Liang , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jian-Fang Hu

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) enables precise object segmentation in images based on natural language descriptions, offering high flexibility and broad applicability in real-world vision tasks. Despite its impressive performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xingbai Chen , Tingchao Fu , Renyang Liu , Wei Zhou , Chao Yi

Multi-view segmentation in Remote Sensing (RS) seeks to segment images from diverse perspectives within a scene. Recent methods leverage 3D information extracted from an Implicit Neural Field (INF), bolstering result consistency across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Zipeng Qi , Chenyang Liu , Zili Liu , Hao Chen , Yongchang Wu , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Sh

3D referring segmentation is an emerging and challenging vision-language task that aims to segment the object described by a natural language expression in a point cloud scene. The key challenge behind this task is vision-language feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Shuting He , Henghui Ding

We propose a novel guided interactive segmentation (GIS) algorithm for video objects to improve the segmentation accuracy and reduce the interaction time. First, we design the reliability-based attention module to analyze the reliability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Yuk Heo , Yeong Jun Koh , Chang-Su Kim

Referring remote sensing image segmentation aims to localize specific targets described by natural language within complex overhead imagery. However, due to extreme scale variations, dense similar distractors, and intricate boundary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Yuzhe Sun , Zhe Dong , Haochen Jiang , Tianzhu Liu , Yanfeng Gu

This paper presents a new regularization method to train a fully convolutional network for semantic tissue segmentation in histopathological images. This method relies on the benefit of unsupervised learning, in the form of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 C. T. Sari , C. Sokmensuer , C. Gunduz-Demir

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) represents a novel retrieval paradigm that is capable of expressing users' intricate retrieval requirements flexibly. It enables the user to give a multimodal query, comprising a reference image and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zhiwei Chen , Yupeng Hu , Zixu Li , Zhiheng Fu , Xuemeng Song , Liqiang Nie

Text-to-image diffusion models have emerged as powerful priors for real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR). However, existing methods may produce unintended results due to noisy text prompts and their lack of spatial information. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Li-Yuan Tsao , Hao-Wei Chen , Hao-Wei Chung , Deqing Sun , Chun-Yi Lee , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Ming-Hsuan Yang