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We investigate Referring Image Segmentation (RIS), which outputs a segmentation map corresponding to the natural language description. Addressing RIS efficiently requires considering the interactions happening across visual and linguistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Kanishk Jain , Vineet Gandhi

Large-scale dense mapping is vital in robotics, digital twins, and virtual reality. Recently, implicit neural mapping has shown remarkable reconstruction quality. However, incremental large-scale mapping with implicit neural representations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Jianheng Liu , Haoyao Chen

As we aim at alleviating the curse of high-dimensionality, subspace learning is becoming more popular. Existing approaches use either information about global or local structure of the data, and few studies simultaneously focus on global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Nan Zhou , Yangyang Xu , Hong Cheng , Jun Fang , Witold Pedrycz

The Reference Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (RRSIS) task generates segmentation masks for specified objects in images based on textual descriptions, which has attracted widespread attention and research interest. Current RRSIS methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Shuyang Li , Shuang Wang , Zhuangzhuang Sun , Jing Xiao

3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) enables real-time 3D scene reconstruction but lacks robust segmentation for editing tasks such as object removal, extraction, and recoloring. Existing approaches that lift 2D segmentations to the 3D domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Raushan Joshi , Jean-Yves Guillemaut

Pretrained vision-language models (VLMs), e.g., CLIP, demonstrate impressive zero-shot capabilities on downstream tasks. Prior research highlights the crucial role of visual augmentation techniques, like random cropping, in alignment with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Lincan Cai , Jingxuan Kang , Shuang Li , Wenxuan Ma , Binhui Xie , Zhida Qin , Jian Liang

The emergence of vision language models (VLMs) bridges the gap between vision and language, enabling multimodal understanding beyond traditional visual-only deep learning models. However, transferring VLMs from the natural image domain to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Boyi Li , Ce Zhang , Richard M. Timmerman , Wenxuan Bao

Existing Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) methods typically require expensive pixel-level or box-level annotations for supervision. In this paper, we observe that the referring texts used in RIS already provide sufficient information to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Fang Liu , Yuhao Liu , Yuqiu Kong , Ke Xu , Lihe Zhang , Baocai Yin , Gerhard Hancke , Rynson Lau

The rich textual information of large vision-language models (VLMs) combined with the powerful generative prior of pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models has achieved impressive performance in single-image super-resolution (SISR).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Haodong He , Yancheng Bai , Rui Lan , Xu Duan , Lei Sun , Xiangxiang Chu , Gui-Song Xia

Medical referring image segmentation (MRIS) requires pixel-level masks aligned with textual descriptions of anatomical locations, making annotation costly in low-label regimes. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) can mitigate this burden by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yuchen Li , Zhen Zhao , Yi Liu , Luping Zhou

Robot localization remains a challenging task in GPS denied environments. State estimation approaches based on local sensors, e.g. cameras or IMUs, are drifting-prone for long-range missions as error accumulates. In this study, we aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Tianyi Zhang , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Referring image segmentation aims to segment a referent via a natural linguistic expression.Due to the distinct data properties between text and image, it is challenging for a network to well align text and pixel-level features. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Zhaoqing Wang , Yu Lu , Qiang Li , Xunqiang Tao , Yandong Guo , Mingming Gong , Tongliang Liu

Robust local feature representations are essential for spatial intelligence tasks such as robot navigation and augmented reality. Establishing reliable correspondences requires descriptors that provide both high discriminative power and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Haodi Yao , Fenghua He , Ning Hao , Yao Su

Text-driven infrared and visible image fusion has gained attention for enabling natural language to guide the fusion process. However, existing methods lack a goal-aligned task to supervise and evaluate how effectively the input text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Siju Ma , Changsiyu Gong , Xiaofeng Fan , Yong Ma , Chengjie Jiang

Global localization plays a critical role in many robot applications. LiDAR-based global localization draws the community's focus with its robustness against illumination and seasonal changes. To further improve the localization under large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Xuecheng Xu , Sha Lu , Jun Wu , Haojian Lu , Qiuguo Zhu , Yiyi Liao , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang

One-shot medical image segmentation (MIS) is crucial for medical analysis due to the burden of medical experts on manual annotation. The recent emergence of the segment anything model (SAM) has demonstrated remarkable adaptation in MIS but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-30 Jia Wang , Yunan Mei , Jiarui Liu , Xin Fan

Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) models like CLIP have significantly advanced Remote Sensing Image-Text Retrieval (RSITR). However, existing methods predominantly rely on coarse-grained global alignment, which often overlooks the dense,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yifan Li , Shiying Wang , Jianqiang Huang

GNSS is unreliable, inaccurate, and insufficient in many real-time autonomous field applications. In this work, we present a GNSS-free global localization solution that contains a method of registering imaging radar on the ground with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Blerim Abdullai , Tony Wang , Xinyuan Qiao , Florian Shkurti , Timothy D. Barfoot

Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (RRSIS) is critical for ecological monitoring, urban planning, and disaster management, requiring precise segmentation of objects in remote sensing imagery guided by textual descriptions. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Tianxiang Zhang , Zhaokun Wen , Bo Kong , Kecheng Liu , Yisi Zhang , Peixian Zhuang , Jiangyun Li

The rapid development of generative AI has made AI-generated images increasingly realistic and high-resolution. Most AI-generated image detection architectures typically downsample images before inputting them into models, risking the loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Lawrence Han