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We target at the task of weakly-supervised video object grounding (WSVOG), where only video-sentence annotations are available during model learning. It aims to localize objects described in the sentence to visual regions in the video,…

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Referring Expression Segmentation (RES), which is aimed at localizing and segmenting the target according to the given language expression, has drawn increasing attention. Existing methods jointly consider the localization and segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Hui Li , Mingjie Sun , Jimin Xiao , Eng Gee Lim , Yao Zhao

Referring image segmentation aims to localize and segment a target object in an image based on a free-form referring expression. The core challenge lies in effectively bridging linguistic descriptions with object-level visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jiachen Li , Hongyun Wang , Jinyu Xu , Wenbo Jiang , Yanchun Ma , Yongjian Liu , Qing Xie , Bolong Zheng

To perform household tasks, assistive robots receive commands in the form of user language instructions for tool manipulation. The initial stage involves selecting the intended tool (i.e., object grounding) and grasping it in a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Chao Tang , Dehao Huang , Lingxiao Meng , Weiyu Liu , Hong Zhang

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

Referring understanding is a fundamental task that bridges natural language and visual content by localizing objects described in free-form expressions. However, existing works are constrained by limited language expressiveness, lacking the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yani Zhang , Dongming Wu , Wencheng Han , Xingping Dong

We focus on the problem of segmenting a certain object referred by a natural language sentence in video content, at the core of formulating a pinpoint vision-language relation. While existing attempts mainly construct such relation in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Chen Liang , Yawei Luo , Yu Wu , Yi Yang

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) relies on natural language expressions to segment target objects in video. In this year, LSVOS Challenge RVOS Track replaced the origin YouTube-RVOS benchmark with MeViS. MeViS focuses on referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Hao Fang , Feiyu Pan , Xiankai Lu , Wei Zhang , Runmin Cong

Camouflaged object detection (COD) approaches heavily rely on pixel-level annotated datasets. Weakly-supervised COD (WSCOD) approaches use sparse annotations like scribbles or points to reduce annotation effort, but this can lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Jian Hu , Jiayi Lin , Weitong Cai , Shaogang Gong

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

Video object segmentation (VOS) -- predicting pixel-level regions for objects within each frame of a video -- is particularly challenging in agricultural scenarios, where videos of crops include hundreds of small, dense, and occluded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Keyhan Najafian , Farhad Maleki , Lingling Jin , Ian Stavness

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) remains challenging when learning object localization models from image category labels. Conventional methods that discriminatively train activation models ignore representative yet less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Yuzhong Zhao , Qixiang Ye , Weijia Wu , Chunhua Shen , Fang Wan

We study weakly-supervised video object grounding: given a video segment and a corresponding descriptive sentence, the goal is to localize objects that are mentioned from the sentence in the video. During training, no object bounding boxes…

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Instance segmentation in videos, which aims to segment and track multiple objects in video frames, has garnered a flurry of research attention in recent years. In this paper, we present a novel weakly supervised framework with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Liqi Yan , Qifan Wang , Siqi Ma , Jingang Wang , Changbin Yu

Video object segmentation (VOS) is a highly challenging problem since the initial mask, defining the target object, is only given at test-time. The main difficulty is to effectively handle appearance changes and similar background objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Andreas Robinson , Felix Järemo Lawin , Martin Danelljan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Michael Felsberg

This paper proposes a large-scale multi-modal dataset for referring motion expression video segmentation, focusing on segmenting and tracking target objects in videos based on language description of objects' motions. Existing referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-13 Henghui Ding , Chang Liu , Shuting He , Kaining Ying , Xudong Jiang , Chen Change Loy , Yu-Gang Jiang

The encoder-decoder based methods for semi-supervised video object segmentation (Semi-VOS) have received extensive attention due to their superior performances. However, most of them have complex intermediate networks which generate strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Suhwan Cho , MyeongAh Cho , Tae-young Chung , Heansung Lee , Sangyoun Lee

Remote sensing visual grounding (RSVG) aims to localize objects in remote sensing imagery according to natural language expressions. Previous methods typically rely on sentence-level vision-language alignment, which struggles to exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Ke Li , Ting Wang , Di Wang , Yongshan Zhu , Yiming Zhang , Tao Lei , Quan Wang

In this paper we introduce a Transformer-based approach to video object segmentation (VOS). To address compounding error and scalability issues of prior work, we propose a scalable, end-to-end method for VOS called Sparse Spatiotemporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Brendan Duke , Abdalla Ahmed , Christian Wolf , Parham Aarabi , Graham W. Taylor

Referring remote sensing image segmentation is crucial for achieving fine-grained visual understanding through free-format textual input, enabling enhanced scene and object extraction in remote sensing applications. Current research…

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