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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

Aiming to link natural language descriptions to specific regions in a 3D scene represented as 3D point clouds, 3D visual grounding is a very fundamental task for human-robot interaction. The recognition errors can significantly impact the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Ziyang Lu , Yunqiang Pei , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang , Zheng Wang , Heng Tao Shen

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

Visual grounding tasks, such as referring image segmentation (RIS) and referring expression comprehension (REC), aim to localize a target object based on a given textual description. The target object in an image can be described in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Seonghoon Yu , Junbeom Hong , Joonseok Lee , Jeany Son

Embodied Reference Understanding requires identifying a target object in a visual scene based on both language instructions and pointing cues. While prior works have shown progress in open-vocabulary object detection, they often fail in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Fevziye Irem Eyiokur , Dogucan Yaman , Hazım Kemal Ekenel , Alexander Waibel

AI-driven geometric problem solving is a complex vision-language task that requires accurate diagram interpretation, mathematical reasoning, and robust cross-modal grounding. A foundational yet underexplored capability for this task is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Bing Liu , Wenqiang Yv , Xuzheng Yang , Shichang Wang , Junzhuo Liu , Peng Wang , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang , Heng Tao Shen

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) aims to localize specified entities or regions in an image based on natural language descriptions. While existing methods handle single-entity localization, they often ignore complex inter-entity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Yizhi Hu , Zezhao Tian , Xingqun Qi , Chen Su , Bingkun Yang , Junhui Yin , Muyi Sun , Man Zhang , Zhenan Sun

Weakly supervised Referring Expression Grounding (REG) aims to ground a particular target in an image described by a language expression while lacking the correspondence between target and expression. Two main problems exist in weakly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Xuejing Liu , Liang Li , Shuhui Wang , Zheng-Jun Zha , Zechao Li , Qi Tian , Qingming Huang

Despite recent advances in inversion and instruction-based image editing, existing approaches primarily excel at editing single, prominent objects but significantly struggle when applied to complex scenes containing multiple entities. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Bimsara Pathiraja , Maitreya Patel , Shivam Singh , Yezhou Yang , Chitta Baral

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

We consider the problem of referring camouflaged object detection (Ref-COD), a new task that aims to segment specified camouflaged objects based on a small set of referring images with salient target objects. We first assemble a large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xuying Zhang , Bowen Yin , Zheng Lin , Qibin Hou , Deng-Ping Fan , Ming-Ming Cheng

One common belief is that with complex models and pre-training on large-scale datasets, transformer-based methods for referring expression comprehension (REC) perform much better than existing graph-based methods. We observe that since most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Jingcheng Ke , Dele Wang , Jun-Cheng Chen , I-Hong Jhuo , Chia-Wen Lin , Yen-Yu Lin

As an important and challenging problem in vision-language tasks, referring expression comprehension (REC) generally requires a large amount of multi-grained information of visual and linguistic modalities to realize accurate reasoning. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Peihan Miao , Wei Su , Gaoang Wang , Xuewei Li , Xi Li

Referring Camouflaged Object Detection (Ref-COD) segments specified camouflaged objects in a scene by leveraging a small set of referring images. Though effective, current systems adopt a dual-branch design that requires reference images at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yu-Huan Wu , Zi-Xuan Zhu , Yan Wang , Liangli Zhen , Deng-Ping Fan

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

Referring Camouflaged Object Detection (Ref-COD) focuses on segmenting specific camouflaged targets in a query image using category-aligned references. Despite recent advances, existing methods struggle with reference-target semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ye Wang , Kai Huang , Sumin Shen , Chenyang Ma

Referring remote sensing image segmentation (RRSIS) enables the precise delineation of regions within remote sensing imagery through natural language descriptions, serving critical applications in disaster response, urban development, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Zhe Dong , Yuzhe Sun , Tianzhu Liu , Yanfeng Gu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, are increasingly used across diverse domains, including logistics, agriculture, surveillance, and defense. While these systems provide numerous benefits, their misuse raises safety…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Rajdeep Chatterjee , Sudip Chakrabarty , Trishaani Acharjee , Deepanjali Mishra

Referring Multi-Object Tracking (RMOT) aims to track specific targets based on language descriptions and is vital for interactive AI systems such as robotics and autonomous driving. However, existing RMOT models rely solely on 2D RGB data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Sijia Chen , Lijuan Ma , Yanqiu Yu , En Yu , Liman Liu , Wenbing Tao

Drones, or general UAVs, equipped with cameras have been fast deployed with a wide range of applications, including agriculture, aerial photography, and surveillance. Consequently, automatic understanding of visual data collected from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Pengfei Zhu , Longyin Wen , Dawei Du , Xiao Bian , Heng Fan , Qinghua Hu , Haibin Ling