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Strong Artificial Intelligence (Strong AI) or Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) with abstract reasoning ability is the goal of next-generation AI. Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), along with the emerging field of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Yiqi Wang , Wentao Chen , Xiaotian Han , Xudong Lin , Haiteng Zhao , Yongfei Liu , Bohan Zhai , Jianbo Yuan , Quanzeng You , Hongxia Yang

Text-guided object segmentation requires both cross-modal reasoning and pixel grounding abilities. Most recent methods treat text-guided segmentation as one-shot grounding, where the model predicts pixel prompts in a single forward pass to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Xingqi He , Yujie Zhang , Shuyong Gao , Wenjie Li , Lingyi Hong , Mingxi Chen , Kaixun Jiang , Jiyuan Fu , Wenqiang Zhang

Segmentation based on language has been a popular topic in computer vision. While recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have endowed segmentation systems with reasoning capabilities, these efforts remain confined by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Tianming Liang , Qirui Du , Jian-Fang Hu , Haichao Jiang , Zicheng Lin , Wei-Shi Zheng

Generative large language models (LLMs) exhibit impressive capabilities, which can be further augmented by integrating a pre-trained vision model into the original LLM to create a multimodal LLM (MLLM). However, this integration often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Shikhar Srivastava , Md Yousuf Harun , Robik Shrestha , Christopher Kanan

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown exceptional capabilities in vision-language tasks. However, effectively integrating image segmentation into these models remains a significant challenge. In this work, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Mengcheng Lan , Chaofeng Chen , Jiaxing Xu , Zongrui Li , Yiping Ke , Xudong Jiang , Yingchen Yu , Yunqing Zhao , Song Bai

The prosperity of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has stimulated the demand for video reasoning segmentation, which aims to segment video objects based on human instructions. Previous studies rely on unidirectional and implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jingnan Luo , Mingqi Gao , Jun Liu , Bin-Bin Gao , Feng Zheng

This paper proposes LLaFS, the first attempt to leverage large language models (LLMs) in few-shot segmentation. In contrast to the conventional few-shot segmentation methods that only rely on the limited and biased information from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Lanyun Zhu , Tianrun Chen , Deyi Ji , Jieping Ye , Jun Liu

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown exceptional capabilities in vision-language tasks; however, effectively integrating image segmentation into these models remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Mengcheng Lan , Chaofeng Chen , Yue Zhou , Jiaxing Xu , Yiping Ke , Xinjiang Wang , Litong Feng , Wayne Zhang

We introduce SAM4MLLM, an innovative approach which integrates the Segment Anything Model (SAM) with Multi-Modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) for pixel-aware tasks. Our method enables MLLMs to learn pixel-level location information without…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yi-Chia Chen , Wei-Hua Li , Cheng Sun , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Chu-Song Chen

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are set to transform how machines process and generate human-like responses by integrating diverse modalities such as text, images, and code. Yet, effectively harnessing their capabilities hinges on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Anwesha Mohanty , Venkatesh Balavadhani Parthasarathy , Arsalan Shahid

Reference Expression Segmentation (RES) aims to segment image regions specified by referring expressions and has become popular with the rise of multimodal large models (MLLMs). While MLLMs excel in semantic understanding, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Jingchao Wang , Zhijian Wu , Dingjiang Huang , Yefeng Zheng , Hong Wang

Recent segmentation methods leveraging Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown reliable object-level segmentation and enhanced spatial perception. However, almost all previous methods predominantly rely on specialist mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Anqi Zhang , Xiaokang Ji , Guangyu Gao , Jianbo Jiao , Chi Harold Liu , Yunchao Wei

Word segmentation stands as a cornerstone of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Based on the concept of "comprehend first, segment later", we propose a new framework to explore the limit of unsupervised word segmentation with Large Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zihong Zhang , Liqi He , Zuchao Li , Lefei Zhang , Hai Zhao , Bo Du

Boosted by Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs), text-guided universal segmentation models for the image and video domains have made rapid progress recently. However, these methods are often developed separately for specific domains,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Cong Wei , Yujie Zhong , Haoxian Tan , Yingsen Zeng , Yong Liu , Zheng Zhao , Yujiu Yang

While LISA effectively bridges the gap between segmentation and large language models to enable reasoning segmentation, it poses certain limitations: unable to distinguish different instances of the target region, and constrained by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Senqiao Yang , Tianyuan Qu , Xin Lai , Zhuotao Tian , Bohao Peng , Shu Liu , Jiaya Jia

Compared with Large Language Models (LLMs), Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) can also accept images as input, thus showcasing more interesting emergent capabilities and demonstrating impressive performance on various vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Runpeng Yu , Weihao Yu , Xinchao Wang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong image-level visual understanding and reasoning, yet their pixel-level perception across both images and videos remains limited. Foundation segmentation models such as the SAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hao Wang , Limeng Qiao , Chi Zhang , Lin Ma , Guanglu Wan , Xiangyuan Lan , Xiaodan Liang

Current universal segmentation methods demonstrate strong capabilities in pixel-level image and video understanding. However, they lack reasoning abilities and cannot be controlled via text instructions. In contrast, large vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Tao Zhang , Xiangtai Li , Hao Fei , Haobo Yuan , Shengqiong Wu , Shunping Ji , Chen Change Loy , Shuicheng Yan

We present SegLLM, a novel multi-round interactive reasoning segmentation model that enhances LLM-based segmentation by exploiting conversational memory of both visual and textual outputs. By leveraging a mask-aware multimodal LLM, SegLLM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 XuDong Wang , Shaolun Zhang , Shufan Li , Konstantinos Kallidromitis , Kehan Li , Yusuke Kato , Kazuki Kozuka , Trevor Darrell

Visual-language pre-training has achieved remarkable success in many multi-modal tasks, largely attributed to the availability of large-scale image-text datasets. In this work, we demonstrate that Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Yanqing Liu , Kai Wang , Wenqi Shao , Ping Luo , Yu Qiao , Mike Zheng Shou , Kaipeng Zhang , Yang You