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Referring image segmentation (RIS) aims to segment a particular region based on a language expression prompt. Existing methods incorporate linguistic features into visual features and obtain multi-modal features for mask decoding. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Mengxi Zhang , Yiming Liu , Xiangjun Yin , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang

Generalized Referring Expression Segmentation (GRES) extends the scope of classic RES to refer to multiple objects in one expression or identify the empty targets absent in the image. GRES poses challenges in modeling the complex spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Zhuofan Xia , Dongchen Han , Yizeng Han , Xuran Pan , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

Recent advances in Large Multi-modal Models (LMMs) have demonstrated their remarkable success as general-purpose multi-modal assistants, with particular focuses on holistic image- and video-language understanding. Conversely, less attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ye Liu , Zongyang Ma , Junfu Pu , Zhongang Qi , Yang Wu , Ying Shan , Chang Wen Chen

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

Reference Expression Segmentation (RES) and Reference Expression Generation (REG) are mutually inverse tasks that can be naturally jointly trained. Though recent work has explored such joint training, the mechanism of how RES and REG can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Shijia Huang , Feng Li , Hao Zhang , Shilong Liu , Lei Zhang , Liwei Wang

Image segmentation from referring expressions is a joint vision and language modeling task, where the input is an image and a textual expression describing a particular region in the image; and the goal is to localize and segment the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Ronghang Hu , Marcus Rohrbach , Subhashini Venugopalan , Trevor Darrell

The objective of Classic Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is to produce a bounding box corresponding to the object mentioned in a given textual description. Commonly, existing datasets and techniques in classic REC are tailored for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Shuting He , Henghui Ding , Chang Liu , Xudong Jiang

Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation is a complex and challenging task that integrates the paradigms of computer vision and natural language processing. Existing datasets for RRSIS suffer from critical limitations in resolution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Zhigang Yang , Huiguang Yao , Linmao Tian , Xuezhi Zhao , Qiang Li , Qi Wang

Generalised 3D Referring Expression Segmentation (3D-GRES) localizes objects in 3D scenes based on natural language, even when descriptions match multiple or zero targets. Existing methods rely solely on sparse point clouds, lacking rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Keshen Zhou , Runnan Chen , Mingming Gong , Tongliang Liu

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

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) is a popular multimodal task that aims to accurately detect target objects within a single image based on a given textual expression. However, due to the limitations of earlier models, traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Guanghao Jin , Jingpei Wu , Tianpei Guo , Yiyi Niu , Weidong Zhou , Guoyang Liu

Referring expression comprehension (REC) aims to localize a target object in an image described by a referring expression phrased in natural language. Different from the object detection task that queried object labels have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Yanyuan Qiao , Chaorui Deng , Qi Wu

Traditional reference segmentation tasks have predominantly focused on silent visual scenes, neglecting the integral role of multimodal perception and interaction in human experiences. In this work, we introduce a novel task called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yaoting Wang , Peiwen Sun , Dongzhan Zhou , Guangyao Li , Honggang Zhang , Di Hu

Referring image segmentation (RIS) is a fundamental vision-language task that intends to segment a desired object from an image based on a given natural language expression. Due to the essentially distinct data properties between image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Wenxuan Wang , Jing Liu , Xingjian He , Yisi Zhang , Chen Chen , Jiachen Shen , Yan Zhang , Jiangyun Li

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is one of the most important tasks in visual reasoning that requires a model to detect the target object referred by a natural language expression. Among the proposed pipelines, the one-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Zhipeng Zhang , Zhimin Wei , Zhongzhen Huang , Rui Niu , Peng Wang

We study fine-grained referring image segmentation via a decoupled reason-then-segment pipeline. A vision-language model (VLM) receives an image and a natural-language query, reasons about the scene, and emits structured spatial prompts: a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Sandesh Hegde , Jaison Saji Chacko , Debarshi Banerjee , Uma Mahesh

Remote Sensing Vision-Language Models (RS VLMs) have made much progress in the tasks of remote sensing (RS) image comprehension. While performing well in multi-modal reasoning and multi-turn conversations, the existing models lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Xu Liu , Zhouhui Lian

Referring image segmentation (RIS) aims to find a segmentation mask given a referring expression grounded to a region of the input image. Collecting labelled datasets for this task, however, is notoriously costly and labor-intensive. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Seonghoon Yu , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Jeany Son

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) is an advanced vision-language task that involves identifying and segmenting objects within an image as described by free-form text descriptions. While previous studies focused on aligning visual and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Minhyun Lee , Seungho Lee , Song Park , Dongyoon Han , Byeongho Heo , Hyunjung Shim