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Multi-image reasoning and grounding require understanding complex cross-image relationships at both object levels and image levels. Current Large Visual Language Models (LVLMs) face two critical challenges: the lack of cross-image reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Lihao Zheng , Jiawei Chen , Xintian Shen , Hao Ma , Tao Wei

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) relying only on image-level supervision is a promising approach to deal with the need for Segmentation networks, especially for generating a large number of pixel-wise masks in a given dataset.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Bharath Srinivas Prabakaran , Erik Ostrowski , Muhammad Shafique

Referring image segmentation, the task of segmenting any arbitrary entities described in free-form texts, opens up a variety of vision applications. However, manual labeling of training data for this task is prohibitively costly, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Dongwon Kim , Namyup Kim , Cuiling Lan , Suha Kwak

Recent progress in deep learning has significantly advanced CT image analysis, particularly for segmentation tasks. However, these advances are largely confined to image-level pattern recognition, with most methods lacking explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yuyuan Liu , Can Peng , Yingyu Yang , Qianye Yang , Cheng Ouyang , J. Alison Noble

Object rearrangement has recently emerged as a key competency in robot manipulation, with practical solutions generally involving object detection, recognition, grasping and high-level planning. Goal-images describing a desired scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Walter Goodwin , Sagar Vaze , Ioannis Havoutis , Ingmar Posner

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment the target instance in a video, referred by a text expression. Conventional approaches are mostly supervised learning, requiring expensive pixel-level mask annotations. To tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Miaojing Shi , Jun Huang , Zijie Yue , Hanli Wang

In this paper, we are tackling the proposal-free referring expression grounding task, aiming at localizing the target object according to a query sentence, without relying on off-the-shelf object proposals. Existing proposal-free methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Mingjie Sun , Jimin Xiao , Eng Gee Lim

In this paper, we propose a simple yet universal network termed SeqTR for visual grounding tasks, e.g., phrase localization, referring expression comprehension (REC) and segmentation (RES). The canonical paradigms for visual grounding often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Chaoyang Zhu , Yiyi Zhou , Yunhang Shen , Gen Luo , Xingjia Pan , Mingbao Lin , Chao Chen , Liujuan Cao , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

Recently, semantic segmentation models trained with image-level text supervision have shown promising results in challenging open-world scenarios. However, these models still face difficulties in learning fine-grained semantic alignment at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Kaixin Cai , Pengzhen Ren , Yi Zhu , Hang Xu , Jianzhuang Liu , Changlin Li , Guangrun Wang , Xiaodan Liang

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) has attracted rising attention, aiming to identify and segment objects based on natural language expressions. While substantial progress has been made in RES, the emergence of Generalized Referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Weize Li , Zhicheng Zhao , Haochen Bai , Fei Su

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment the object referred to by the query sentence in the video. Most existing methods require end-to-end training with dense mask annotations, which could be computation-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Ci-Siang Lin , Min-Hung Chen , I-Jieh Liu , Chien-Yi Wang , Sifei Liu , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

The goal of referring remote sensing image segmentation (RRSIS) is to extract specific pixel-level regions within an aerial image via a natural language expression. Recent advancements, particularly Transformer-based fusion designs, have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Kun Li , George Vosselman , Michael Ying Yang

Reference-based image super-resolution (RefSR) has shown promising success in recovering high-frequency details by utilizing an external reference image (Ref). In this task, texture details are transferred from the Ref image to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Liying Lu , Wenbo Li , Xin Tao , Jiangbo Lu , Jiaya Jia

Remote sensing image segmentation faces persistent challenges in distinguishing morphologically similar categories and adapting to diverse scene variations. While existing methods rely on implicit representation learning paradigms, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xuechao Zou , Yue Li , Shun Zhang , Kai Li , Shiying Wang , Pin Tao , Junliang Xing , Congyan Lang

Recently, deep learning based methods have revolutionized remote sensing image segmentation. However, these methods usually rely on a pre-defined semantic class set, thus needing additional image annotation and model training when adapting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Chengyang Ye , Yunzhi Zhuge , Pingping Zhang

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

Incremental few-shot semantic segmentation (IFSS) aims to incrementally extend a semantic segmentation model to novel classes according to only a few pixel-level annotated data, while preserving its segmentation capability on previously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Yuan Zhou , Xin Chen , Yanrong Guo , Shijie Hao , Richang Hong , Qi Tian

Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (RRSIS) aims to segment target objects in remote sensing (RS) images based on textual descriptions. Although Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) has shown remarkable performance in various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Fu Rong , Meng Lan , Qian Zhang , Lefei Zhang

Recently, learning open-vocabulary semantic segmentation from text supervision has achieved promising downstream performance. Nevertheless, current approaches encounter an alignment granularity gap owing to the absence of dense annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Yajie Liu , Pu Ge , Qingjie Liu , Di Huang

Advances in multimodal pre-training have propelled object-level foundation models, such as Grounding DINO and Florence-2, in tasks like visual grounding and object detection. However, interpreting these models' decisions has grown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Ruoyu Chen , Siyuan Liang , Jingzhi Li , Shiming Liu , Maosen Li , Zhen Huang , Hua Zhang , Xiaochun Cao