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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

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) aims to localize the target objects specified by free-form natural language descriptions in images. While state-of-the-art methods achieve impressive performance, they perform a dense perception of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Wei Su , Peihan Miao , Huanzhang Dou , Xi Li

Given a query consisting of a reference image and a relative caption, Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve target images visually similar to the reference one while incorporating the changes specified in the relative caption. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Lorenzo Agnolucci , Alberto Baldrati , Alberto Del Bimbo , Marco Bertini

Iterative refinement -- start with a random guess, then iteratively improve the guess -- is a useful paradigm for representation learning because it offers a way to break symmetries among equally plausible explanations for the data. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Michael Chang , Thomas L. Griffiths , Sergey Levine

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) aims to segment target objects expressed in natural language within a scene at the pixel level. Various recent RIS models have achieved state-of-the-art performance by generating contextual tokens to model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Minhyeok Lee , Dogyoon Lee , Jungho Lee , Suhwan Cho , Heeseung Choi , Ig-Jae Kim , Sangyoun Lee

Semantic segmentation has a broad range of applications, but its real-world impact has been significantly limited by the prohibitive annotation costs necessary to enable deployment. Segmentation methods that forgo supervision can side-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Gyungin Shin , Weidi Xie , Samuel Albanie

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) aims to provide a segmentation mask of the target object in an image referred to by the text (i.e., referring expression). Existing methods require large-scale mask annotations. Moreover, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Sayan Nag , Koustava Goswami , Srikrishna Karanam

For text-to-image generation, automatically refining user-provided natural language prompts into the keyword-enriched prompts favored by systems is essential for the user experience. Such a prompt refinement process is analogous to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Jingtao Zhan , Qingyao Ai , Yiqun Liu , Yingwei Pan , Ting Yao , Jiaxin Mao , Shaoping Ma , Tao Mei

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) requires identifying objects from images based on textual descriptions. We observe that existing methods significantly underperform on motion-related queries compared to appearance-based ones. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Chaeyun Kim , Seunghoon Yi , Yejin Kim , Yohan Jo , Joonseok Lee

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

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) excels at general image segmentation but has limited ability to understand natural language, which restricts its direct application in Referring Expression Segmentation (RES). Toward this end, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Wei Tang , Xuejing Liu , Yanpeng Sun , Zechao Li

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

Zero-shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) aims to retrieve a target image given a reference image and a relative text, without relying on costly triplet annotations. Existing CLIP-based methods face two core challenges: (1) union-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yuqi Xiao , Yingying Zhu

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) is a task that segments image regions based on language expressions, requiring fine-grained alignment between two modalities. However, existing methods often struggle with multimodal misalignment and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Qianqi Lu , Yuxiang Xie , Jing Zhang , Shiwei Zou , Yan Chen , Xidao Luan

The Segmentation Anything Model (SAM) has recently emerged as a foundation model for addressing image segmentation. Owing to the intrinsic complexity of medical images and the high annotation cost, the medical image segmentation (MIS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Chuyun Shen , Wenhao Li , Ya Zhang , Xiangfeng Wang

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) aims to segment a target object described by a natural language expression. Existing methods have evolved by leveraging the vision information into the language tokens. To more effectively exploit visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yubin Cho , Hyunwoo Yu , Kyeongbo Kong , Kyomin Sohn , Bongjoon Hyun , Suk-Ju Kang

This report presents a solution for the zero-shot referring expression comprehension task. Visual-language multimodal base models (such as CLIP, SAM) have gained significant attention in recent years as a cornerstone of mainstream research.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Longfei Huang , Feng Yu , Zhihao Guan , Zhonghua Wan , Yang Yang

Accurately retrieving images that are semantically similar remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision, as traditional methods often fail to capture the relational and contextual nuances of a scene. We introduce PRISm (Pruning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Dimitrios Georgoulopoulos , Nikolaos Chaidos , Angeliki Dimitriou , Giorgos Stamou

Zero-shot referring expression comprehension (REC) aims to locate target objects in images given natural language queries without relying on task-specific training data, demanding strong visual understanding capabilities. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yike Wu , Necva Bolucu , Stephen Wan , Dadong Wang , Jiahao Xia , Jian Zhang

The development of autoregressive modeling (AM) in computer vision lags behind natural language processing (NLP) in self-supervised pre-training. This is mainly caused by the challenge that images are not sequential signals and lack a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Kaiyou Song , Shan Zhang , Tong Wang