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Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) is a core vision-language segmentation task that enables pixel-level understanding of targets via free-form linguistic expressions, supporting critical applications such as human-robot interaction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yihao Wang , Jusheng Zhang , Ziyi Tang , Keze Wang , Meng Yang

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

Given a textual description, the task of referring expression comprehension (REC) involves the localisation of the referred object in an image. Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved high accuracy on REC benchmarks through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yik Lung Pang , Changjae Oh

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) and Comprehension (REC) respectively segment and detect the object described by an expression, while Referring Expression Generation (REG) generates an expression for the selected object. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Henghui Ding , Chang Liu , Shuting He , Xudong Jiang , Yu-Gang Jiang

Reference Expression Generation (REG) and Comprehension (REC) are two highly correlated tasks. Modeling REG and REC simultaneously for utilizing the relation between them is a promising way to improve both. However, the problem of distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Duo Zheng , Tao Kong , Ya Jing , Jiaan Wang , Xiaojie 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

Video Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) aims to localize a target object in video frames referred by the natural language expression. Recently, the Transformerbased methods have greatly boosted the performance limit. However, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Ji Jiang , Meng Cao , Tengtao Song , Yuexian Zou

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 Referring Expression Generation (REG) are fundamental tasks in multimodal understanding, supporting precise object localization through natural language. However, existing REC and REG datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Shilan Zhang , Jirui Huang , Ruilin Yao , Cong Wang , Yaxiong Chen , Peng Xu , Shengwu Xiong

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) aims to localize the target objects specified by free-form natural language descriptions in images. While state-of-the-art methods achieve impressive performance, they perform a dense perception of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Wei Su , Peihan Miao , Huanzhang Dou , Xi Li

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

Most of the existing work in one-stage referring expression comprehension (REC) mainly focuses on multi-modal fusion and reasoning, while the influence of other factors in this task lacks in-depth exploration. To fill this gap, we conduct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Gen Luo , Yiyi Zhou , Jiamu Sun , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

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

Recent powerful pre-trained language models have achieved remarkable performance on most of the popular datasets for reading comprehension. It is time to introduce more challenging datasets to push the development of this field towards more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Weihao Yu , Zihang Jiang , Yanfei Dong , Jiashi Feng

We investigate the problem of video Referring Expression Comprehension (REC), which aims to localize the referent objects described in the sentence to visual regions in the video frames. Despite the recent progress, existing methods suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Meng Cao , Ji Jiang , Long Chen , Yuexian Zou

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in various multi-modal tasks. Nevertheless, their performance in fine-grained image understanding tasks is still limited. To address this issue, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Shiyu Xuan , Qingpei Guo , Ming Yang , Shiliang Zhang

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

Reference Expression Segmentation (RES) aims to segment image regions specified by referring expressions and has become popular with the rise of multimodal large models (MLLMs). While MLLMs excel in semantic understanding, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Jingchao Wang , Zhijian Wu , Dingjiang Huang , Yefeng Zheng , Hong Wang

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

Video Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) aims to localize a target object in videos based on the queried natural language. Recent improvements in video REC have been made using Transformer-based methods with learnable queries.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Ji Jiang , Meng Cao , Tengtao Song , Long Chen , Yi Wang , Yuexian Zou