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We consider the problem of segmenting image regions given a natural language phrase, and study it on a novel dataset of 77,262 images and 345,486 phrase-region pairs. Our dataset is collected on top of the Visual Genome dataset and uses the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Chenyun Wu , Zhe Lin , Scott Cohen , Trung Bui , Subhransu Maji

We address the problem of referring image segmentation that aims to generate a mask for the object specified by a natural language expression. Many recent works utilize Transformer to extract features for the target object by aggregating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Chang Liu , Henghui Ding , Yulun Zhang , Xudong Jiang

As a significant application of multi-source information fusion in intelligent transportation perception systems, Referring Multi-Object Tracking (RMOT) involves localizing and tracking specific objects in video sequences based on language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Shaofeng Liang , Runwei Guan , Wangwang Lian , Daizong Liu , Xiaolou Sun , Dongming Wu , Yutao Yue , Weiping Ding , Hui Xiong

Co-segmentation is the automatic extraction of the common semantic regions given a set of images. Different from previous approaches mainly based on object visuals, in this paper, we propose a human centred object co-segmentation approach,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Chenxia Wu , Jiemi Zhang , Ashutosh Saxena , Silvio Savarese

Precise, object-aware control over visual content is essential for advanced image editing and compositional generation. Yet, most existing approaches operate on entire images holistically, limiting the ability to isolate and manipulate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Fangyi Chen , Yaojie Shen , Lu Xu , Ye Yuan , Shu Zhang , Yulei Niu , Longyin Wen

Referring expression comprehension (REF) aims at identifying a particular object in a scene by a natural language expression. It requires joint reasoning over the textual and visual domains to solve the problem. Some popular referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Zhenfang Chen , Peng Wang , Lin Ma , Kwan-Yee K. Wong , Qi Wu

Referring expression segmentation (RES) aims at segmenting the foreground masks of the entities that match the descriptive natural language expression. Previous datasets and methods for classic RES task heavily rely on the prior assumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Wenxuan Wang , Tongtian Yue , Yisi Zhang , Longteng Guo , Xingjian He , Xinlong Wang , Jing Liu

Existing referring understanding tasks tend to involve the detection of a single text-referred object. In this paper, we propose a new and general referring understanding task, termed referring multi-object tracking (RMOT). Its core idea is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Dongming Wu , Wencheng Han , Tiancai Wang , Xingping Dong , Xiangyu Zhang , Jianbing Shen

We present REM, a framework for segmenting a wide range of concepts in video that can be described through natural language. Our method leverages the universal visual-language mapping learned by video diffusion models on Internet-scale data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Anurag Bagchi , Zhipeng Bao , Yu-Xiong Wang , Pavel Tokmakov , Martial Hebert

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 Segmentation (RES) is a widely explored multi-modal task, which endeavors to segment the pre-existing object within a single image with a given linguistic expression. However, in broader real-world scenarios, it is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yixuan Wu , Zhao Zhang , Xie Chi , Feng Zhu , Rui Zhao

Referring image segmentation aims to segment an object referred to by natural language expression from an image. The primary challenge lies in the efficient propagation of fine-grained semantic information from textual features to visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Yichen Yan , Xingjian He , Sihan Chen , Jing Liu

Object removal refers to the process of erasing designated objects from an image while preserving the overall appearance. Existing works on object removal erase removal targets using image inpainting networks. However, image inpainting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Changsuk Oh , H. Jin Kim

Referring expression comprehension aims to localize objects identified by natural language descriptions. This is a challenging task as it requires understanding of both visual and language domains. One nature is that each object can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Yi-Wen Chen , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Referring image segmentation (RIS) aims to segment objects in an image conditioning on free-from text descriptions. Despite the overwhelming progress, it still remains challenging for current approaches to perform well on cases with various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Yajie Liu , Pu Ge , Haoxiang Ma , Shichao Fan , Qingjie Liu , Di Huang , Yunhong Wang

Conventional referring expression comprehension (REF) assumes people to query something from an image by describing its visual appearance and spatial location, but in practice, we often ask for an object by describing its affordance or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Peng Wang , Dongyang Liu , Hui Li , Qi Wu

Referring Camouflaged Object Detection (Ref-COD) segments specified camouflaged objects in a scene by leveraging a small set of referring images. Though effective, current systems adopt a dual-branch design that requires reference images at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yu-Huan Wu , Zi-Xuan Zhu , Yan Wang , Liangli Zhen , Deng-Ping Fan

Referring segmentation grounds natural-language queries to pixel-level masks, but extending it to complex scenarios with multiple instances, cross-category groups, or open-ended target sets remains challenging. Previous Large Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zhixiong Zhang , Yizhuo Li , Shuangrui Ding , Yuhang Zang , Shengyuan Ding , Long Xing , Yibin Wang , Qiaosheng Zhang , Jiaqi Wang

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

We present a new dataset with the goal of advancing the state-of-the-art in object recognition by placing the question of object recognition in the context of the broader question of scene understanding. This is achieved by gathering images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Tsung-Yi Lin , Michael Maire , Serge Belongie , Lubomir Bourdev , Ross Girshick , James Hays , Pietro Perona , Deva Ramanan , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Piotr Dollár