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The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) with computer vision is profoundly transforming perception tasks like image segmentation. For intelligent transportation systems (ITS), where accurate scene understanding is critical for…

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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) leverage aligned visual encoders to transform images into visual tokens, allowing them to be processed similarly to text by the backbone large language model (LLM). This unified input paradigm enables VLMs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Bangzheng Li , Fei Wang , Wenxuan Zhou , Nan Xu , Ben Zhou , Sheng Zhang , Hoifung Poon , Muhao Chen

Semantic segmentation of multi-modal remote sensing imagery plays a pivotal role in land use/land cover (LULC) mapping, environmental monitoring, and precision earth observation. Current multi-modal approaches mainly focus on integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jinkun Dai , Yuanxin Ye , Peng Tang , Tengfeng Tang , Xianping Ma , Jing Xiao , Mi Wang

Semi-supervised medical image segmentation is a crucial technique for alleviating the high cost of data annotation. When labeled data is limited, textual information can provide additional context to enhance visual semantic understanding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Kaiwen Huang , Yi Zhou , Huazhu Fu , Yizhe Zhang , Chen Gong , Tao Zhou

We propose a method to fuse frozen text-only large language models (LLMs) with pre-trained image encoder and decoder models, by mapping between their embedding spaces. Our model demonstrates a wide suite of multimodal capabilities: image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Jing Yu Koh , Daniel Fried , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Text segmentation, the task of dividing a document into contiguous segments based on its semantic structure, is a longstanding challenge in language understanding. Previous work on text segmentation focused on unsupervised methods such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Omri Koshorek , Adir Cohen , Noam Mor , Michael Rotman , Jonathan Berant

Vision-language models (VLMs) offer a promising paradigm for image classification by comparing the similarity between images and class embeddings. A critical challenge lies in crafting precise textual representations for class names. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Songhao Han , Le Zhuo , Yue Liao , Si Liu

Synthesizing photo-realistic images from text descriptions is a challenging problem. Previous studies have shown remarkable progresses on visual quality of the generated images. In this paper, we consider semantics from the input text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Guojun Yin , Bin Liu , Lu Sheng , Nenghai Yu , Xiaogang Wang , Jing Shao

Visual-textual correlations in the attention maps derived from text-to-image diffusion models are proven beneficial to dense visual prediction tasks, e.g., semantic segmentation. However, a significant challenge arises due to the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Jiayi Lin , Jiabo Huang , Jian Hu , Shaogang Gong

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

Semantic retrieval of remote sensing (RS) images is a critical task fundamentally challenged by the \textquote{semantic gap}, the discrepancy between a model's low-level visual features and high-level human concepts. While large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 J. Xiao , Y. Guo , X. Zi , K. Thiyagarajan , C. Moreira , M. Prasad

Referring remote sensing image segmentation is crucial for achieving fine-grained visual understanding through free-format textual input, enabling enhanced scene and object extraction in remote sensing applications. Current research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Keyan Chen , Jiafan Zhang , Chenyang Liu , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

Existing reasoning segmentation approaches typically fine-tune multimodal large language models (MLLMs) using image-text pairs and corresponding mask labels. However, they exhibit limited generalization to out-of-distribution scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Song Wang , Gongfan Fang , Lingdong Kong , Xiangtai Li , Jianyun Xu , Sheng Yang , Qiang Li , Jianke Zhu , Xinchao Wang

One critical prerequisite for faithful text-to-image generation is the accurate understanding of text inputs. Existing methods leverage the text encoder of the CLIP model to represent input prompts. However, the pre-trained CLIP model can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Zhiyu Tan , Mengping Yang , Luozheng Qin , Hao Yang , Ye Qian , Qiang Zhou , Cheng Zhang , Hao Li

This paper aims to achieve universal segmentation of arbitrary semantic level. Despite significant progress in recent years, specialist segmentation approaches are limited to specific tasks and data distribution. Retraining a new model for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Yong Liu , Cairong Zhang , Yitong Wang , Jiahao Wang , Yujiu Yang , Yansong Tang

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in source code understanding, yet as software systems grow in scale, computational efficiency has become a critical bottleneck. Currently, these models rely on a text-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yuling Shi , Chaoxiang Xie , Zhensu Sun , Yeheng Chen , Chenxu Zhang , Longfei Yun , Chengcheng Wan , Hongyu Zhang , David Lo , Xiaodong Gu

Image segmentation is often ambiguous at the level of individual image patches and requires contextual information to reach label consensus. In this paper we introduce Segmenter, a transformer model for semantic segmentation. In contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Robin Strudel , Ricardo Garcia , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Effectively grounding complex language to pixels in remote sensing (RS) images is a critical challenge for applications like disaster response and environmental monitoring. Current models can parse simple, single-target commands but fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Zepeng Xin , Kaiyu Li , Luodi Chen , Wanchen Li , Yuchen Xiao , Hui Qiao , Weizhan Zhang , Deyu Meng , Xiangyong Cao

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown impressive results on various multimodal tasks. However, most existing MLLMs are not well suited for document-oriented tasks, which require fine-grained image perception and information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ya-Qi Yu , Minghui Liao , Jihao Wu , Yongxin Liao , Xiaoyu Zheng , Wei Zeng