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Referring Image Segmentation (RIS), aims to segment the object referred by a given sentence in an image by understanding both visual and linguistic information. However, existing RIS methods tend to explore top-performance models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Xiaoyan Jiang , Hang Yang , Kaiying Zhu , Xihe Qiu , Shibo Zhao , Sifan Zhou

Recent advances in zero-shot referring image segmentation (RIS), driven by models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) and CLIP, have made substantial progress in aligning visual and textual information. Despite these successes, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Ting Liu , Siyuan Li

Referring Image Understanding (RIS) has been extensively studied over the past decade, leading to the development of advanced algorithms. However, there has been a lack of research investigating how existing algorithms should be benchmarked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Wei Ji , Li Li , Hao Fei , Xiangyan Liu , Xun Yang , Juncheng Li , Roger Zimmermann

Referring image segmentation aims to segment an object referred to by natural language expression from an image. However, this task is challenging due to the distinct data properties between text and image, and the randomness introduced by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Yichen Yan , Xingjian He , Wenxuan Wan , Jing Liu

In real-world scenarios, the performance of semantic segmentation often deteriorates when processing low-quality (LQ) images, which may lack clear semantic structures and high-frequency details. Although image restoration techniques offer a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Kai Guan , Rongyuan Wu , Shuai Li , Wentao Zhu , Wenjun Zeng , Lei Zhang

Referring Image Segmentation is a comprehensive task to segment an object referred by a textual query from an image. In nature, the level of difficulty in this task is affected by the existence of similar objects and the complexity of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Seongsu Ha , Chaeyun Kim , Donghwa Kim , Junho Lee , Sangho Lee , Joonseok Lee

Both masked image modeling (MIM) and natural language supervision have facilitated the progress of transferable visual pre-training. In this work, we seek the synergy between two paradigms and study the emerging properties when MIM meets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Shusheng Yang , Yixiao Ge , Kun Yi , Dian Li , Ying Shan , Xiaohu Qie , Xinggang Wang

Referring image segmentation (RIS) requires accurate segmentation of target regions in images according to language descriptions, which is a cross-modal task integrating vision and language. Existing RIS methods typically employ large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chen Yang

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS), which aims to segment specific objects based on natural language descriptions, plays an essential role in vision-language understanding. Despite its progress in remote sensing applications, RIS in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Kai Ye , YingShi Luan , Zhudi Chen , Guangyue Meng , Pingyang Dai , Liujuan Cao

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

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) is a self-supervised learning technique that involves masking portions of an image, such as pixels, patches, or latent representations, and training models to predict the missing information using the visible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Shabnam Choudhury , Akhil Vasim , Michael Schmitt , Biplab Banerjee

In this paper, we study a challenging task of zero-shot referring image segmentation. This task aims to identify the instance mask that is most related to a referring expression without training on pixel-level annotations. Previous research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Yucheng Suo , Linchao Zhu , Yi Yang

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) aims to generate a segmentation mask for the object described by a given language expression. Existing classic RES datasets and methods commonly support single-target expressions only, i.e., one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Chang Liu , Henghui Ding , Xudong Jiang

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

Deep neural networks are capable of learning powerful representations to tackle complex vision tasks but expose undesirable properties like the over-fitting issue. To this end, regularization techniques like image augmentation are necessary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Haohang Xu , Shuangrui Ding , Manqi Zhao , Dongsheng Jiang

Referring image segmentation aims to segment the objects referred by a natural language expression. Previous methods usually focus on designing an implicit and recurrent feature interaction mechanism to fuse the visual-linguistic features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Ya Jing , Tao Kong , Wei Wang , Liang Wang , Lei Li , Tieniu Tan

Referring image segmentation (RIS) aims to precisely segment referents in images through corresponding natural language expressions, yet relying on cost-intensive mask annotations. Weakly supervised RIS thus learns from image-text pairs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Qiyuan Dai , Sibei Yang

This paper explores the weakly-supervised referring image segmentation (WRIS) problem, and focuses on a challenging setup where target localization is learned directly from image-text pairs. We note that the input text description typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Zaiquan Yang , Yuhao Liu , Jiaying Lin , Gerhard Hancke , Rynson W. H. Lau

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) is a cross-modal task that aims to segment an instance described by a natural language expression. Recent methods leverage large-scale pretrained unimodal models as backbones along with fusion techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Seoyeon Kim , Minguk Kang , Dongwon Kim , Jaesik Park , Suha Kwak

In view of the fact that semi- and self-supervised learning share a fundamental principle, effectively modeling knowledge from unlabeled data, various semi-supervised semantic segmentation methods have integrated representative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Yangyang Li , Xuanting Hao , Ronghua Shang , Licheng Jiao