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Referring image segmentation is a challenging task that involves generating pixel-wise segmentation masks based on natural language descriptions. The complexity of this task increases with the intricacy of the sentences provided. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Hai Nguyen-Truong , E-Ro Nguyen , Tuan-Anh Vu , Minh-Triet Tran , Binh-Son Hua , Sai-Kit Yeung

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is a popular multimodal task that aims to accurately detect target objects within a single image based on a given textual expression. However, due to the limitations of earlier models, traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Guanghao Jin , Jingpei Wu , Tianpei Guo , Yiyi Niu , Weidong Zhou , Guoyang Liu

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

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

Referring Expression Generation (REG) aims to generate unambiguous Referring Expressions (REs) for objects in a visual scene, with a dual task of Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) to locate the referred object. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Fulong Ye , Yuxing Long , Fangxiang Feng , Xiaojie Wang

Referring Expressions Generation (REG) aims to produce textual descriptions that unambiguously identifies specific objects within a visual scene. Traditionally, this has been achieved through supervised learning methods, which perform well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Lior Bracha , Eitan Shaar , Aviv Shamsian , Ethan Fetaya , Gal Chechik

The task of multimodal referring expression comprehension (REC), aiming at localizing an image region described by a natural language expression, has recently received increasing attention within the research comminity. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Zhi Zhang , Helen Yannakoudakis , Xiantong Zhen , Ekaterina Shutova

Referring image segmentation aims to segment the image region of interest according to the given language expression, which is a typical multi-modal task. Existing methods either adopt the pixel classification-based or the learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Zhichao Wei , Xiaohao Chen , Mingqiang Chen , Siyu Zhu

Referring expression comprehension (REC) aims to localize the target object described by a natural language expression. Recent advances in vision-language learning have led to significant performance improvements in REC tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Kanoko Goto , Takumi Hirose , Mahiro Ukai , Shuhei Kurita , Nakamasa Inoue

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is usually addressed with task-trained grounding models. We show that a zero-shot workflow, without any REC-specific training, can achieve competitive or superior performance. Our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Jeffrey Liu , Rongbin Hu

Along with the prosperity of recurrent neural network in modelling sequential data and the power of attention mechanism in automatically identify salient information, image captioning, a.k.a., image description, has been remarkably advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Hao Liu , Yang Yang , Fumin Shen , Lixin Duan , Heng Tao Shen

Referring expression segmentation (RES) aims at segmenting the foreground masks of the entities that match the descriptive natural language expression. Previous datasets and methods for classic RES task heavily rely on the prior assumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Wenxuan Wang , Tongtian Yue , Yisi Zhang , Longteng Guo , Xingjian He , Xinlong Wang , Jing Liu

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

Visual Grounding aims to localize the referring object in an image given a natural language expression. Recent advancements in DETR-based visual grounding methods have attracted considerable attention, as they directly predict the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yabing Wang , Zhuotao Tian , Qingpei Guo , Zheng Qin , Sanping Zhou , Ming Yang , Le Wang

Referring image segmentation aims to segment the target referent in an image conditioning on a natural language expression. Existing one-stage methods employ per-pixel classification frameworks, which attempt straightforwardly to align…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jiajin Tang , Ge Zheng , Cheng Shi , Sibei Yang

Referring image segmentation aims to produce a pixel-level mask for the image region described by a natural-language expression. Although pretrained vision-language models have improved semantic grounding, many existing methods still rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Alaa Dalaq , Muzammil Behzad

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) aims to identify a particular object in a scene by a natural language expression, and is an important topic in visual language understanding. State-of-the-art methods for this task are based on deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Luca Parolari , Elena Izzo , Lamberto Ballan

In this work, instead of directly predicting the pixel-level segmentation masks, the problem of referring image segmentation is formulated as sequential polygon generation, and the predicted polygons can be later converted into segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Jiang Liu , Hui Ding , Zhaowei Cai , Yuting Zhang , Ravi Kumar Satzoda , Vijay Mahadevan , R. Manmatha

Given a natural language expression and an image/video, the goal of referring segmentation is to produce the pixel-level masks of the entities described by the subject of the expression. Previous approaches tackle this problem by implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Si Liu , Tianrui Hui , Shaofei Huang , Yunchao Wei , Bo Li , Guanbin Li

Training a referring expression comprehension (ReC) model for a new visual domain requires collecting referring expressions, and potentially corresponding bounding boxes, for images in the domain. While large-scale pre-trained models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Sanjay Subramanian , William Merrill , Trevor Darrell , Matt Gardner , Sameer Singh , Anna Rohrbach