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In this paper, we introduce LDGen, a novel method for integrating large language models (LLMs) into existing text-to-image diffusion models while minimizing computational demands. Traditional text encoders, such as CLIP and T5, exhibit…

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Scaling up the vocabulary of semantic segmentation models is extremely challenging because annotating large-scale mask labels is labour-intensive and time-consuming. Recently, language-guided segmentation models have been proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Haojun Yu , Di Dai , Ziwei Zhao , Di He , Han Hu , Liwei Wang

Despite significant progress in pixel-level medical image analysis, existing medical image segmentation models rarely explore medical segmentation and diagnosis tasks jointly. However, it is crucial for patients that models can provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Lingran Song , Yucheng Zhou , Jianbing Shen

Vision-language (VL) pre-training has recently gained much attention for its transferability and flexibility in novel concepts (e.g., cross-modality transfer) across various visual tasks. However, VL-driven segmentation has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Sukmin Yun , Seong Hyeon Park , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Jinwoo Shin

Recent segmentation methods leveraging Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown reliable object-level segmentation and enhanced spatial perception. However, almost all previous methods predominantly rely on specialist mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Anqi Zhang , Xiaokang Ji , Guangyu Gao , Jianbo Jiao , Chi Harold Liu , Yunchao Wei

We introduce SAM4MLLM, an innovative approach which integrates the Segment Anything Model (SAM) with Multi-Modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) for pixel-aware tasks. Our method enables MLLMs to learn pixel-level location information without…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yi-Chia Chen , Wei-Hua Li , Cheng Sun , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Chu-Song Chen

The prosperity of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has stimulated the demand for video reasoning segmentation, which aims to segment video objects based on human instructions. Previous studies rely on unidirectional and implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jingnan Luo , Mingqi Gao , Jun Liu , Bin-Bin Gao , Feng Zheng

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing images plays a vital role in a wide range of Earth Observation applications, such as land use land cover mapping, environment monitoring, and sustainable development. Driven by rapid developments in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Libo Wang , Sijun Dong , Ying Chen , Xiaoliang Meng , Shenghui Fang , Songlin Fei

Text segmentation (TS) aims at dividing long text into coherent segments which reflect the subtopic structure of the text. It is beneficial to many natural language processing tasks, such as Information Retrieval (IR) and document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Mostafa Bayomi , Killian Levacher , M. Rami Ghorab , Séamus Lawless

Reasoning Segmentation (RS) is a multimodal vision-text task that requires segmenting objects based on implicit text queries, demanding both precise visual perception and vision-text reasoning capabilities. Current RS approaches rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yizhen Li , Dell Zhang , Xuelong Li , Yiqing Shen

Text-to-image diffusion models excel at translating language prompts into photorealistic images by implicitly grounding textual concepts through their cross-modal attention mechanisms. Recent multi-modal diffusion transformers extend this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Chaehyun Kim , Heeseong Shin , Eunbeen Hong , Heeji Yoon , Anurag Arnab , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Sunghwan Hong , Seungryong Kim

This paper addresses text-supervised semantic segmentation, aiming to learn a model capable of segmenting arbitrary visual concepts within images by using only image-text pairs without dense annotations. Existing methods have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Ji-Jia Wu , Andy Chia-Hao Chang , Chieh-Yu Chuang , Chun-Pei Chen , Yu-Lun Liu , Min-Hung Chen , Hou-Ning Hu , Yung-Yu Chuang , Yen-Yu Lin

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) can understand image-language prompts and demonstrate impressive reasoning ability. In this paper, we extend MLLMs' output by empowering MLLMs with the segmentation ability. The extended MLLMs can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yuqi Yang , Peng-Tao Jiang , Jing Wang , Hao Zhang , Kai Zhao , Jinwei Chen , Bo Li

We present SimpleSeg, a strikingly simple yet highly effective approach to endow Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) with native pixel-level perception. Our method reframes segmentation as a simple sequence generation problem: the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Tianhui Song , Haoyu Lu , Hao Yang , Lin Sui , Haoning Wu , Zaida Zhou , Zhiqi Huang , Yiping Bao , Y. Charles , Xinyu Zhou , Limin Wang

Reasoning segmentation aims to segment target objects in complex scenes based on human intent and spatial reasoning. While recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive 2D image reasoning segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jiaxin Huang , Runnan Chen , Ziwen Li , Zhengqing Gao , Xiao He , Yandong Guo , Mingming Gong , Tongliang Liu

We present LSeg, a novel model for language-driven semantic image segmentation. LSeg uses a text encoder to compute embeddings of descriptive input labels (e.g., "grass" or "building") together with a transformer-based image encoder that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Boyi Li , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Serge Belongie , Vladlen Koltun , René Ranftl

Text recognition is an inherent integration of vision and language, encompassing the visual texture in stroke patterns and the semantic context among the character sequences. Towards advanced text recognition, there are three key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Humen Zhong , Zhibo Yang , Zhaohai Li , Peng Wang , Jun Tang , Wenqing Cheng , Cong Yao

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate strong capabilities in broad knowledge representation, yet they are inherently deficient in pixel-level perceptual understanding. Although the Segment Anything Model (SAM) represents a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Hao Wang , Limeng Qiao , Zequn Jie , Zhijian Huang , Chengjian Feng , Qingfang Zheng , Lin Ma , Xiangyuan Lan , Xiaodan Liang

Text segmentation aims to divide text into contiguous, semantically coherent segments, while segment labeling deals with producing labels for each segment. Past work has shown success in tackling segmentation and labeling for documents and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Hakan Inan , Rashi Rungta , Yashar Mehdad

Segmentation based on language has been a popular topic in computer vision. While recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have endowed segmentation systems with reasoning capabilities, these efforts remain confined by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Tianming Liang , Qirui Du , Jian-Fang Hu , Haichao Jiang , Zicheng Lin , Wei-Shi Zheng