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This paper addresses the problem of transparent object matting. Existing image matting approaches for transparent objects often require tedious capturing procedures and long processing time, which limit their practical use. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Guanying Chen , Kai Han , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

The task of video object segmentation with referring expressions (language-guided VOS) is to, given a linguistic phrase and a video, generate binary masks for the object to which the phrase refers. Our work argues that existing benchmarks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Miriam Bellver , Carles Ventura , Carina Silberer , Ioannis Kazakos , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Referring camouflaged object detection (Ref-COD) aims to identify hidden objects by incorporating reference information such as images and text descriptions. Previous research has transformed reference images with salient objects into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yu Wen , Shuyong Gao , Shuping Zhang , Miao Huang , Lili Tao , Han Yang , Haozhe Xing , Lihe Zhang , Boxue Hou

Traditional semantic image search methods aim to retrieve images that match the meaning of the text query. However, these methods typically search for objects on the whole image, without considering the localization of objects within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Silvan Ferreira , Allan Martins , Ivanovitch Silva

Image of a scene captured through a piece of transparent and reflective material, such as glass, is often spoiled by a superimposed layer of reflection image. While separating the reflection from a familiar object in an image is mentally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Zhixiang Chi , Xiaolin Wu , Xiao Shu , Jinjin Gu

Referring Expression Counting (REC) extends class-level object counting to the fine-grained subclass-level, aiming to enumerate objects matching a textual expression that specifies both the class and distinguishing attribute. A fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Yuda Zou , Zijian Zhang , Yongchao Xu

Referring image segmentation aims at localizing all pixels of the visual objects described by a natural language sentence. Previous works learn to straightforwardly align the sentence embedding and pixel-level embedding for highlighting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Zicheng Zhang , Yi Zhu , Jianzhuang Liu , Xiaodan Liang , Wei Ke

Referring expression grounding aims at locating certain objects or persons in an image with a referring expression, where the key challenge is to comprehend and align various types of information from visual and textual domain, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Xihui Liu , Zihao Wang , Jing Shao , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

Image-based object removal often erases only the named target, leaving behind interaction evidence that renders the result semantically inconsistent. We formalize this problem as Interaction-Consistent Object Removal (ICOR), which requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ching-Kai Huang , Wen-Chieh Lin , Yan-Cen Lee

Referring image segmentation aims at segmenting the foreground masks of the entities that can well match the description given in the natural language expression. Previous approaches tackle this problem using implicit feature interaction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Shaofei Huang , Tianrui Hui , Si Liu , Guanbin Li , Yunchao Wei , Jizhong Han , Luoqi Liu , Bo Li

Reflection is common in images capturing scenes behind a glass window, which is not only a disturbance visually but also influence the performance of other computer vision algorithms. Single image reflection removal is an ill-posed problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yunfei Liu , Yu Li , Shaodi You , Feng Lu

Current open-source Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) excel at tasks such as open-vocabulary language grounding and segmentation but can suffer under false premises when queries imply the existence of something that is not actually present in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Tsung-Han Wu , Giscard Biamby , David Chan , Lisa Dunlap , Ritwik Gupta , Xudong Wang , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Trevor Darrell

We introduce $\texttt{ReMOVE}$, a novel reference-free metric for assessing object erasure efficacy in diffusion-based image editing models post-generation. Unlike existing measures such as LPIPS and CLIPScore, $\texttt{ReMOVE}$ addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Aditya Chandrasekar , Goirik Chakrabarty , Jai Bardhan , Ramya Hebbalaguppe , Prathosh AP

Composed image retrieval is a type of image retrieval task where the user provides a reference image as a starting point and specifies a text on how to shift from the starting point to the desired target image. However, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xingyu Yang , Daqing Liu , Heng Zhang , Yong Luo , Chaoyue Wang , Jing Zhang

We consider referring image segmentation. It is a problem at the intersection of computer vision and natural language understanding. Given an input image and a referring expression in the form of a natural language sentence, the goal is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Linwei Ye , Zhi Liu , Yang Wang

We address the problem of segmenting an object given a natural language expression that describes it. Current techniques tackle this task by either (\textit{i}) directly or recursively merging linguistic and visual information in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Edgar Margffoy-Tuay , Juan C. Pérez , Emilio Botero , Pablo Arbeláez

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

Object removal refers to the process of erasing designated objects from an image while preserving the overall appearance, and it is one area where image inpainting is widely used in real-world applications. The performance of an object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Changsuk Oh , Dongseok Shim , Taekbeom Lee , H. Jin Kim

Different from universal object detection, referring expression comprehension (REC) aims to locate specific objects referred to by natural language expressions. The expression provides high-level concepts of relevant visual and contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Wei Su , Peihan Miao , Huanzhang Dou , Yongjian Fu , Xi Li

Referring Image Segmentation is a comprehensive task to segment an object referred by a textual query from an image. In nature, the level of difficulty in this task is affected by the existence of similar objects and the complexity of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Seongsu Ha , Chaeyun Kim , Donghwa Kim , Junho Lee , Sangho Lee , Joonseok Lee