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Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is a crucial cross-modal task that objectively evaluates the capabilities of language understanding, image comprehension, and language-to-image grounding. Consequently, it serves as an ideal testing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Junzhuo Liu , Xuzheng Yang , Weiwei Li , Peng Wang

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) requires models to localize objects in images based on natural language descriptions. Research on the area remains predominantly English-centric, despite increasing global deployment demands. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Francisco Nogueira , Alexandre Bernardino , Bruno Martins

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is a foundational cross-modal task that evaluates the interplay of language understanding, image comprehension, and language-to-image grounding. It serves as an essential testing ground for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Xuzheng Yang , Junzhuo Liu , Peng Wang , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang , Heng Tao Shen

The newly proposed Generalized Referring Expression Segmentation (GRES) amplifies the formulation of classic RES by involving complex multiple/non-target scenarios. Recent approaches address GRES by directly extending the well-adopted RES…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zhuoyan Luo , Yinghao Wu , Tianheng Cheng , Yong Liu , Yicheng Xiao , Hongfa Wang , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Yujiu Yang

Pixel grounding, encompassing tasks such as Referring Expression Segmentation (RES), has garnered considerable attention due to its immense potential for bridging the gap between vision and language modalities. However, advancements in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Rui Hu , Lianghui Zhu , Yuxuan Zhang , Tianheng Cheng , Lei Liu , Heng Liu , Longjin Ran , Xiaoxin Chen , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Generalized Referring expressions can describe one object, several related objects, or none at all. Existing generalized referring segmentation (GRES) models treat all cases alike, predicting a single binary mask and ignoring how linguistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 E-Ro Nguyen , Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras , Michael S. Ryoo

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 Expression Segmentation (RES) has attracted rising attention, aiming to identify and segment objects based on natural language expressions. While substantial progress has been made in RES, the emergence of Generalized Referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Weize Li , Zhicheng Zhao , Haochen Bai , Fei Su

Despite the advances in Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) benchmarks, their evaluation protocols remain constrained, primarily focusing on either single targets with short queries (containing minimal attributes) or multiple targets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Dong-Hee Kim , Hyunjee Song , Donghyun Kim

Reference Expression Generation (REG) and Comprehension (REC) are two highly correlated tasks. Modeling REG and REC simultaneously for utilizing the relation between them is a promising way to improve both. However, the problem of distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Duo Zheng , Tao Kong , Ya Jing , Jiaan Wang , Xiaojie Wang

Constrained by the separate encoding of vision and language, existing grounding and referring segmentation works heavily rely on bulky Transformer-based fusion en-/decoders and a variety of early-stage interaction technologies.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Linhui Xiao , Xiaoshan Yang , Fang Peng , Yaowei Wang , Changsheng Xu

Current 3D visual grounding tasks only process sentence level detection or segmentation, which critically fails to leverage the rich compositional contextual reasonings within natural language expressions. To address this challenge, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Qi Chen , Changli Wu , Jiayi Ji , Yiwei Ma , Liujuan Cao

Multimodal referring segmentation aims to segment target objects in visual scenes, such as images, videos, and 3D scenes, based on referring expressions in text or audio format. This task plays a crucial role in practical applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Henghui Ding , Song Tang , Shuting He , Chang Liu , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) aims at segmenting the target object from an image referred by one given natural language expression. The diverse and flexible expressions as well as complex visual contents in the images raise the RIS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Yang Jiao , Zequn Jie , Weixin Luo , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang , Xiaolin Wei , Lin Ma

Referring expression segmentation (RES), a task that involves localizing specific instance-level objects based on free-form linguistic descriptions, has emerged as a crucial frontier in human-AI interaction. It demands an intricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Ying Zang , Chenglong Fu , Runlong Cao , Didi Zhu , Min Zhang , Wenjun Hu , Lanyun Zhu , Tianrun Chen

Referring segmentation grounds natural-language queries to pixel-level masks, but extending it to complex scenarios with multiple instances, cross-category groups, or open-ended target sets remains challenging. Previous Large Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zhixiong Zhang , Yizhuo Li , Shuangrui Ding , Yuhang Zang , Shengyuan Ding , Long Xing , Yibin Wang , Qiaosheng Zhang , Jiaqi Wang

Referring expression grounding is a core problem in visual grounding and is widely used as a diagnostic of spatial grounding and reasoning in vision and language models, yet most prior work focuses on natural images. In contrast, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Tianhao Niu , Ziyu Han , Qingfu Zhu , Wanxiang Che

This paper proposes a novel framework utilizing multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) for referring video object segmentation (RefVOS). Previous MLLM-based methods commonly struggle with the dilemma between "Ref" and "VOS": they either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Lang Lin , Xueyang Yu , Ziqi Pang , Yu-Xiong Wang

In this paper, we propose a novel task termed Omni-Referring Image Segmentation (OmniRIS) towards highly generalized image segmentation. Compared with existing unimodally conditioned segmentation tasks, such as RIS and visual RIS, OmniRIS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Qiancheng Zheng , Yunhang Shen , Gen Luo , Baiyang Song , Xing Sun , Xiaoshuai Sun , Yiyi Zhou , Rongrong Ji

Localizing desired objects from remote sensing images is of great use in practical applications. Referring image segmentation, which aims at segmenting out the objects to which a given expression refers, has been extensively studied in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zhenghang Yuan , Lichao Mou , Yuansheng Hua , Xiao Xiang Zhu