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The Segment Anything Model (SAM) excels at general image segmentation but has limited ability to understand natural language, which restricts its direct application in Referring Expression Segmentation (RES). Toward this end, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Wei Tang , Xuejing Liu , Yanpeng Sun , Zechao Li

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) is an emerging task in computer vision, which segments the target instances in images based on text descriptions. However, its development is plagued by the expensive segmentation labels. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Minglang Huang , Yiyi Zhou , Gen Luo , Guannan Jiang , Weilin Zhuang , Xiaoshuai Sun

The key of referring expression comprehension lies in capturing the cross-modal visual-linguistic relevance. Existing works typically model the cross-modal relevance in each image, where the anchor object/expression and their positive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Fuhai Chen , Xuri Ge , Xiaoshuai Sun , Yue Gao , Jianzhuang Liu , Fufeng Chen , Wenjie Li

Referring expression comprehension (REC) and segmentation (RES) are two highly-related tasks, which both aim at identifying the referent according to a natural language expression. In this paper, we propose a novel Multi-task Collaborative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Gen Luo , Yiyi Zhou , Xiaoshuai Sun , Liujuan Cao , Chenglin Wu , Cheng Deng , Rongrong Ji

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is a foundational cross-modal task that evaluates the interplay of language understanding, image comprehension, and language-to-image grounding. It serves as an essential testing ground for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Xuzheng Yang , Junzhuo Liu , Peng Wang , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang , Heng Tao Shen

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) is a challenging task that requires an algorithm to segment objects referred by free-form language expressions. Despite significant progress in recent years, most state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yong Xien Chng , Henry Zheng , Yizeng Han , Xuchong Qiu , Gao Huang

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is a crucial cross-modal task that objectively evaluates the capabilities of language understanding, image comprehension, and language-to-image grounding. Consequently, it serves as an ideal testing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Junzhuo Liu , Xuzheng Yang , Weiwei Li , Peng Wang

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is an emerging research spot in computer vision, which refers to detecting the target region in an image given an text description. Most existing REC methods follow a multi-stage pipeline, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Yiyi Zhou , Rongrong Ji , Gen Luo , Xiaoshuai Sun , Jinsong Su , Xinghao Ding , Chia-wen Lin , Qi Tian

One common belief is that with complex models and pre-training on large-scale datasets, transformer-based methods for referring expression comprehension (REC) perform much better than existing graph-based methods. We observe that since most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Jingcheng Ke , Dele Wang , Jun-Cheng Chen , I-Hong Jhuo , Chia-Wen Lin , Yen-Yu Lin

As an important and challenging problem in vision-language tasks, referring expression comprehension (REC) generally requires a large amount of multi-grained information of visual and linguistic modalities to realize accurate reasoning. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Peihan Miao , Wei Su , Gaoang Wang , Xuewei Li , Xi Li

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has gained significant attention for its impressive performance in image segmentation. However, it lacks proficiency in referring video object segmentation (RVOS) due to the need for precise user-interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yonglin Li , Jing Zhang , Xiao Teng , Long Lan , Xinwang Liu

Multimodal referring segmentation aims to segment target objects in visual scenes, such as images, videos, and 3D scenes, based on referring expressions in text or audio format. This task plays a crucial role in practical applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Henghui Ding , Song Tang , Shuting He , Chang Liu , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

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

Generalized Referring Expression Segmentation (GRES) extends the scope of classic RES to refer to multiple objects in one expression or identify the empty targets absent in the image. GRES poses challenges in modeling the complex spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Zhuofan Xia , Dongchen Han , Yizeng Han , Xuran Pan , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

Referring image segmentation aims to segment an object referred to by natural language expression from an image. However, this task is challenging due to the distinct data properties between text and image, and the randomness introduced by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Yichen Yan , Xingjian He , Wenxuan Wan , Jing Liu

Weakly supervised referring expression grounding aims at localizing the referential object in an image according to the linguistic query, where the mapping between the referential object and query is unknown in the training stage. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Xuejing Liu , Liang Li , Shuhui Wang , Zheng-Jun Zha , Dechao Meng , Qingming Huang

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is a vision-language task that localizes a specific image region based on a textual description. Existing REC benchmarks primarily evaluate perceptual capabilities and lack interpretable scoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Tianyi Gao , Hao Li , Han Fang , Xin Wei , Xiaodong Dong , Hongbo Sun , Ye Yuan , Zhongjiang He , Jinglin Xu , Jingmin Xin , Hao Sun

Weakly supervised Referring Expression Grounding (REG) aims to ground a particular target in an image described by a language expression while lacking the correspondence between target and expression. Two main problems exist in weakly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Xuejing Liu , Liang Li , Shuhui Wang , Zheng-Jun Zha , Zechao Li , Qi Tian , Qingming Huang

The objective of Classic Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is to produce a bounding box corresponding to the object mentioned in a given textual description. Commonly, existing datasets and techniques in classic REC are tailored for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Shuting He , Henghui Ding , Chang Liu , Xudong Jiang

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