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Reference-based Super-Resolution (Ref-SR) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm to enhance a low-resolution (LR) input image by introducing an additional high-resolution (HR) reference image. Existing Ref-SR methods mostly rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Yuming Jiang , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Xintao Wang , Chen Change Loy , Ziwei Liu

With the help of powerful generative models, Semantic Image Compression (SIC) has achieved impressive performance at ultra-low bitrate. However, due to coarse-grained visual-semantic alignment and inherent randomness, the reliability of SIC…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Chenhao Wu , Qingbo Wu , Haoran Wei , Shuai Chen , Mingzhou He , King Ngi Ngan , Fanman Meng , Hongliang Li

Text-to-image (T2I) models have ushered in a new era of real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) due to their rich internal implicit knowledge for multimodal learning. Although bringing high-level semantic priors and dense pixel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Xinrui Li , Jinrong Zhang , Jianlong Wu , Chong Chen , Liqiang Nie , Zhouchen Lin

This paper explores the weakly-supervised referring image segmentation (WRIS) problem, and focuses on a challenging setup where target localization is learned directly from image-text pairs. We note that the input text description typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Zaiquan Yang , Yuhao Liu , Jiaying Lin , Gerhard Hancke , Rynson W. H. Lau

Despite impressive advancements in Visual-Language Models (VLMs) for multi-modal tasks, their reliance on RGB inputs limits precise spatial understanding. Existing methods for integrating spatial cues, such as point clouds or depth, either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Yang Liu , Ming Ma , Xiaomin Yu , Pengxiang Ding , Han Zhao , Mingyang Sun , Siteng Huang , Donglin Wang

Generative recommendation is an emerging paradigm that leverages the extensive knowledge of large language models by formulating recommendations into a text-to-text generation task. However, existing studies face two key limitations in (i)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Sunkyung Lee , Minjin Choi , Eunseong Choi , Hye-young Kim , Jongwuk Lee

As a novel and challenging task, referring segmentation combines computer vision and natural language processing to localize and segment objects based on textual descriptions. While referring image segmentation (RIS) has been extensively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Rui Li , Xiaowei Zhao

Current cross-modal retrieval systems are evaluated using R@K measure which does not leverage semantic relationships rather strictly follows the manually marked image text query pairs. Therefore, current systems do not generalize well for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Shah Nawaz , Muhammad Kamran Janjua , Ignazio Gallo , Arif Mahmood , Alessandro Calefati , Faisal Shafait

In real-world scenarios, pixel-level labeling is not always available. Sometimes, we need a semantic segmentation network, and even a visual encoder can have a high compatibility, and can be trained using various types of feedback beyond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Xie Ting , Ye Huang , Zhilin Liu , Lixin Duan

We propose a new framework that automatically generates high-quality segmentation masks with their referring expressions as pseudo supervisions for referring image segmentation (RIS). These pseudo supervisions allow the training of any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Seonghoon Yu , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Jeany Son

Referring image segmentation aims to segment the objects referred by a natural language expression. Previous methods usually focus on designing an implicit and recurrent feature interaction mechanism to fuse the visual-linguistic features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Ya Jing , Tao Kong , Wei Wang , Liang Wang , Lei Li , Tieniu Tan

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

Spatial referring is a fundamental capability of embodied robots to interact with the 3D physical world. However, even with the powerful pretrained vision language models (VLMs), recent approaches are still not qualified to accurately…

Due to the availability of multi-modal remote sensing (RS) image archives, one of the most important research topics is the development of cross-modal RS image retrieval (CM-RSIR) methods that search semantically similar images across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Gencer Sumbul , Markus Müller , Begüm Demir

Multi-contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging super-resolution (MC-MRI SR) aims to enhance low-resolution (LR) contrasts leveraging high-resolution (HR) references, shortening acquisition time and improving imaging efficiency while preserving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Xiaoman Wu , Lubin Gan , Siying Wu , Jing Zhang , Yunwei Ou , Xiaoyan Sun

Among the representation learning, the low-rank representation (LRR) is one of the hot research topics in many fields, especially in image processing and pattern recognition. Although LRR can capture the global structure, the ability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Hui Li , Xiao-Jun Wu

In this paper, a semantic communication framework for image transmission is developed. In the investigated framework, a set of servers cooperatively transmit images to a set of users utilizing semantic communication techniques. To evaluate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Wenjing Zhang , Yining Wang , Mingzhe Chen , Tao Luo , Dusit Niyato

Reference-based image super-resolution (RefSR) is a promising SR branch and has shown great potential in overcoming the limitations of single image super-resolution. While previous state-of-the-art RefSR methods mainly focus on improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Lin Zhang , Xin Li , Dongliang He , Fu Li , Yili Wang , Zhaoxiang Zhang

The essence of video semantic segmentation (VSS) is how to leverage temporal information for prediction. Previous efforts are mainly devoted to developing new techniques to calculate the cross-frame affinities such as optical flow and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Guolei Sun , Yun Liu , Hao Tang , Ajad Chhatkuli , Le Zhang , Luc Van Gool

Given a natural language expression and a remote sensing image, the goal of referring remote sensing image segmentation (RRSIS) is to generate a pixel-level mask of the target object identified by the referring expression. In contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zhe Dong , Yuzhe Sun , Tianzhu Liu , Wangmeng Zuo , Yanfeng Gu