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Reference Audio-Visual Segmentation (Ref-AVS) aims to provide a pixel-wise scene understanding in Language-aided Audio-Visual Scenes (LAVS). This task requires the model to continuously segment objects referred to by text and audio from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yuji Wang , Haoran Xu , Yong Liu , Jiaze Li , Yansong Tang

In laparoscopic liver surgery, augmented reality technology enhances intraoperative anatomical guidance by overlaying 3D liver models from preoperative CT/MRI onto laparoscopic 2D views. However, existing registration methods lack explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Ruize Cui , Jialun Pei , Haiqiao Wang , Jun Zhou , Jeremy Yuen-Chun Teoh , Pheng-Ann Heng , Jing Qin

We present a unified, promptable model capable of simultaneously segmenting, recognizing, and captioning anything. Unlike SAM, we aim to build a versatile region representation in the wild via visual prompting. To achieve this, we train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Ting Pan , Lulu Tang , Xinlong Wang , Shiguang Shan

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) provides essential spatial context by mapping gene expression within tissue, enabling detailed study of cellular heterogeneity and tissue organization. However, aligning ST data with histology images poses…

The ability to segment objects based on open-ended language prompts remains a critical challenge, requiring models to ground textual semantics into precise spatial masks while handling diverse and unseen categories. We present OpenWorldSAM,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Shiting Xiao , Rishabh Kabra , Yuhang Li , Donghyun Lee , Joao Carreira , Priyadarshini Panda

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have greatly advanced text-to-image generation, but models still struggle to generate the correct spatial relations between objects as specified in the text prompt. In this study, we adopt a mechanistic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Binxu Wang , Jingxuan Fan , Xu Pan

Generating high-fidelity 3D indoor scenes remains a significant challenge due to data scarcity and the complexity of modeling intricate spatial relations. Current methods often struggle to scale beyond training distribution to dense scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Xingjian Ran , Shujie Zhang , Weipeng Zhong , Li Luo , Bo Dai

We propose a coercive approach to simultaneously register and segment multi-modal images which share similar spatial structure. Registration is done at the region level to facilitate data fusion while avoiding the need for interpolation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Yu-Hui Chen , Dennis Wei , Gregory Newstadt , Jeffrey Simmons , Alfred Hero

Visual-spatial understanding, the ability to infer object relationships and layouts from visual input, is fundamental to downstream tasks such as robotic navigation and embodied interaction. However, existing methods face spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Haoyu Zhang , Meng Liu , Zaijing Li , Haokun Wen , Weili Guan , Yaowei Wang , Liqiang Nie

One-shot segmentation of brain tissue requires training registration-segmentation (reg-seg) dual-model iteratively, where reg-model aims to provide pseudo masks of unlabeled images for seg-model by warping a carefully-labeled atlas.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Zhiwei Wang , Xiaoyu Zeng , Chongwei Wu , Jinxin lv , Xu Zhang , Wei Fang , Qiang Li

Recent advances in Vision Transformers (ViT) and Stable Diffusion (SD) models with their ability to capture rich semantic features of the image have been used for image correspondence tasks on natural images. In this paper, we examine the…

The recently proposed Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a general tool for image segmentation, but it requires additional adaptation and careful fine-tuning for medical image segmentation, especially for small, irregularly-shaped, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Yaxi Chen , Aleksandra Ivanova , Shaheer U. Saeed , Rikin Hargunani , Jie Huang , Chaozong Liu , Yipeng Hu

The recent Segment Anything Model (SAM) 2 has demonstrated remarkable foundational competence in semantic segmentation, with its memory mechanism and mask decoder further addressing challenges in video tracking and object occlusion, thereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Jieming Yu , An Wang , Wenzhen Dong , Mengya Xu , Mobarakol Islam , Jie Wang , Long Bai , Hongliang Ren

Text-to-image (T2I) generation has advanced rapidly, yet faithfully capturing spatial relationships described in natural language prompts remains a major challenge. Prior efforts have addressed this issue through prompt optimization,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Sander Schildermans , Chang Tian , Ying Jiao , Marie-Francine Moens

In this paper, we propose an Audio-Language-Referenced SAM 2 (AL-Ref-SAM 2) pipeline to explore the training-free paradigm for audio and language-referenced video object segmentation, namely AVS and RVOS tasks. The intuitive solution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Shaofei Huang , Rui Ling , Hongyu Li , Tianrui Hui , Zongheng Tang , Xiaoming Wei , Jizhong Han , Si Liu

Language has emerged as a natural interface for image editing. In this paper, we introduce a method for region-based image editing driven by textual prompts, without the need for user-provided masks or sketches. Specifically, our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Yuanze Lin , Yi-Wen Chen , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Lu Jiang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Deformable image registration is able to achieve fast and accurate alignment between a pair of images and thus plays an important role in many medical image studies. The current deep learning (DL)-based image registration approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Xinke Ma , Yibo Yang , Yong Xia , Dacheng Tao

Recently, large-scale text-to-image (T2I) models have shown impressive performance in generating high-fidelity images, but with limited controllability, e.g., precisely specifying the content in a specific region with a free-form text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Zhengyuan Yang , Jianfeng Wang , Zhe Gan , Linjie Li , Kevin Lin , Chenfei Wu , Nan Duan , Zicheng Liu , Ce Liu , Michael Zeng , Lijuan Wang

One of the fundamental challenges in supervised learning for multimodal image registration is the lack of ground-truth for voxel-level spatial correspondence. This work describes a method to infer voxel-level transformation from…

Scene understanding is paramount in robotics, self-navigation, augmented reality, and many other fields. To fully accomplish this task, an autonomous agent has to infer the 3D structure of the sensed scene (to know where it looks at) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Pier Luigi Dovesi , Matteo Poggi , Lorenzo Andraghetti , Miquel Martí , Hedvig Kjellström , Alessandro Pieropan , Stefano Mattoccia