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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

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

Recent image segmentation models have advanced to segment images into high-quality masks for visual entities, and yet they cannot provide comprehensive semantic understanding for complex queries based on both language and vision. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Shengcao Cao , Zijun Wei , Jason Kuen , Kangning Liu , Lingzhi Zhang , Jiuxiang Gu , HyunJoon Jung , Liang-Yan Gui , Yu-Xiong Wang

Referring expression segmentation (RES) aims at segmenting the entities' masks that match the descriptive language expression. While traditional RES methods primarily address object-level grounding, real-world scenarios demand a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Jing Liu , Wenxuan Wang , Yisi Zhang , Yepeng Tang , Xingjian He , Longteng Guo , Tongtian Yue , Xinlong Wang

Summary: SAMRI is an MRI-specialized adaptation of the Segment Anything Model achieving superior whole-body MRI segmentation, particularly for small and clinically critical structures, through box and point prompts for rapid annotation.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Zhao Wang , Wei Dai , Thuy Thanh Dao , Steffen Bollmann , Hongfu Sun , Craig Engstrom , Shekhar S. Chandra

3D Referring Expression Segmentation (3D-RES) typically requires extensive instance-level annotations, which are time-consuming and costly. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) mitigates this by using limited labeled data alongside abundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Wenxin Chen , Mengxue Qu , Weitai Kang , Yan Yan , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei

Text-to-image retrieval (TIR) aims to find relevant images based on a textual query, but existing approaches are primarily based on whole-image captions and lack interpretability. Meanwhile, referring expression segmentation (RES) enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Li-Cheng Shen , Jih-Kang Hsieh , Wei-Hua Li , Chu-Song Chen

Few-shot classification and segmentation (FS-CS) focuses on jointly performing multi-label classification and multi-class segmentation using few annotated examples. Although the current state of the art (SOTA) achieves high accuracy in both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Dustin Carrión-Ojeda , Stefan Roth , Simone Schaub-Meyer

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

Semi-supervised referring expression segmentation (SS-RES) aims to achieve precise pixel-level language grounding under limited annotation, yet suffers from limited supervision and unreliable pseudo-labels when exploiting unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Runlong Cao , Ying Zang , Chuanwei Zhou , Tianrun Chen , Tong Zhang , Zhen Cui , Chunyan Xu

Zero-shot Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) identifies the instance mask that best aligns with a specified referring expression without training and fine-tuning, significantly reducing the labor-intensive annotation process. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yuji Wang , Jingchen Ni , Yong Liu , Chun Yuan , Yansong Tang

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) is a fundamental vision-language task that outputs object masks based on text descriptions. Many works have achieved considerable progress for RIS, including different fusion method designs. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Jianzong Wu , Xiangtai Li , Xia Li , Henghui Ding , Yunhai Tong , Dacheng Tao

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) requires segmenting the object in video referred by a natural language query. Existing methods mainly rely on sophisticated pipelines to tackle such cross-modal task, and do not explicitly model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Ping Li , Yu Zhang , Li Yuan , Xianghua Xu

Referring 3D Segmentation is a visual-language task that segments all points of the specified object from a 3D point cloud described by a sentence of query. Previous works perform a two-stage paradigm, first conducting language-agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Xuexun Liu , Xiaoxu Xu , Jinlong Li , Qiudan Zhang , Xu Wang , Nicu Sebe , Lin Ma

Referring image segmentation (RIS) aims to find a segmentation mask given a referring expression grounded to a region of the input image. Collecting labelled datasets for this task, however, is notoriously costly and labor-intensive. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Seonghoon Yu , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Jeany Son

Most existing approaches to referring segmentation achieve strong performance only through fine-tuning or by composing multiple pre-trained models, often at the cost of additional training and architectural modifications. Meanwhile,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Anna Kukleva , Enis Simsar , Alessio Tonioni , Muhammad Ferjad Naeem , Federico Tombari , Jan Eric Lenssen , Bernt Schiele

Instance segmentation of surgical instruments is a long-standing research problem, crucial for the development of many applications for computer-assisted surgery. This problem is commonly tackled via fully-supervised training of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Luca Sestini , Benoit Rosa , Elena De Momi , Giancarlo Ferrigno , Nicolas Padoy

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 video object segmentation (RVOS), as a supervised learning task, relies on sufficient annotated data for a given scene. However, in more realistic scenarios, only minimal annotations are available for a new scene, which poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Guanghui Li , Mingqi Gao , Heng Liu , Xiantong Zhen , Feng Zheng

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