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Vision Language Models (VLMs) provide rich semantic priors but are underexplored in Semi supervised Semantic Segmentation. Recent attempts to integrate VLMs to inject high level semantics overlook the semantic misalignment between visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Numair Nadeem , Saeed Anwar , Muhammad Hamza Asad , Abdul Bais

Recently, video object segmentation (VOS) referred by multi-modal signals, e.g., language and audio, has evoked increasing attention in both industry and academia. It is challenging for exploring the semantic alignment within modalities and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Shilin Yan , Renrui Zhang , Ziyu Guo , Wenchao Chen , Wei Zhang , Hongyang Li , Yu Qiao , Hao Dong , Zhongjiang He , Peng Gao

Open-world referring segmentation requires grounding unconstrained language expressions to precise pixel-level regions. Existing multimodal large language models (MLLMs) exhibit strong open-world visual grounding, but their outputs remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yuan Yao , Qiushi Yang , Humen Zhong , Jiangning Wei , Yifang Men , Shuai Bai , Miaomiao Cui , Zhibo Yang

Recent Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) demonstrate promising capabilities in unifying visual understanding and generative modeling, enabling both accurate content understanding and flexible editing. However, current approaches treat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Fan Yang , Yousong Zhu , Xin Li , Yufei Zhan , Hongyin Zhao , Shurong Zheng , Yaowei Wang , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end model, namely Single-Stage Grounding network (SSG), to localize the referent given a referring expression within an image. Different from previous multi-stage models which rely on object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Xinpeng Chen , Lin Ma , Jingyuan Chen , Zequn Jie , Wei Liu , Jiebo Luo

Visual Grounding (VG), which aims to locate a specific region referred to by expressions, is a fundamental yet challenging task in the multimodal understanding fields. While recent grounding transfer works have advanced the field through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Hongbing Li , Linhui Xiao , Zihan Zhao , Qi Shen , Yixiang Huang , Bo Xiao , Zhanyu Ma

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 grounding is a core problem in visual grounding and is widely used as a diagnostic of spatial grounding and reasoning in vision and language models, yet most prior work focuses on natural images. In contrast, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Tianhao Niu , Ziyu Han , Qingfu Zhu , Wanxiang Che

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have gained significant attention due to their strong multimodal understanding capability. However, existing works rely heavily on modality-specific encoders, which usually differ in architecture and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Jiaming Han , Kaixiong Gong , Yiyuan Zhang , Jiaqi Wang , Kaipeng Zhang , Dahua Lin , Yu Qiao , Peng Gao , Xiangyu Yue

Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLMs) leverages Large Language Models as a cognitive framework for diverse visual-language tasks. Recent efforts have been made to equip MLLMs with visual perceiving and grounding capabilities. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Junwen He , Yifan Wang , Lijun Wang , Huchuan Lu , Jun-Yan He , Jin-Peng Lan , Bin Luo , Xuansong Xie

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 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

With Transformers achieving outstanding performance on individual remote sensing (RS) tasks, we are now approaching the realization of a unified model that excels across multiple tasks through multi-task learning (MTL). Compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Qingyun Li , Shuran Ma , Junwei Luo , Yi Yu , Yue Zhou , Fengxiang Wang , Xudong Lu , Xiaoxing Wang , Xin He , Yushi Chen , Xue Yang

In this work, we address the challenging task of referring segmentation. The query expression in referring segmentation typically indicates the target object by describing its relationship with others. Therefore, to find the target one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Henghui Ding , Chang Liu , Suchen Wang , Xudong Jiang

We present Masked Frequency Modeling (MFM), a unified frequency-domain-based approach for self-supervised pre-training of visual models. Instead of randomly inserting mask tokens to the input embeddings in the spatial domain, in this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Jiahao Xie , Wei Li , Xiaohang Zhan , Ziwei Liu , Yew Soon Ong , Chen Change Loy

Using only image-sentence pairs, weakly-supervised visual-textual grounding aims to learn region-phrase correspondences of the respective entity mentions. Compared to the supervised approach, learning is more difficult since bounding boxes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Davide Rigoni , Luca Parolari , Luciano Serafini , Alessandro Sperduti , Lamberto Ballan

Video Multimodal Large Language Models~(Video-MLLM) have achieved remarkable advancements in video understanding tasks. However, constrained by the context length limitation in the underlying LLMs, existing Video-MLLMs typically exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Kuo Wang , Quanlong Zheng , Junlin Xie , Yanhao Zhang , Jinguo Luo , Haonan Lu , Liang Lin , Fan Zhou , Guanbin Li

Referring segmentation grounds natural-language queries to pixel-level masks, but extending it to complex scenarios with multiple instances, cross-category groups, or open-ended target sets remains challenging. Previous Large Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zhixiong Zhang , Yizhuo Li , Shuangrui Ding , Yuhang Zang , Shengyuan Ding , Long Xing , Yibin Wang , Qiaosheng Zhang , Jiaqi Wang

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 grounding is an important and challenging task in computer vision. To avoid the laborious annotation in conventional referring grounding, unpaired referring grounding is introduced, where the training data only contains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Hengcan Shi , Munawar Hayat , Jianfei Cai