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Referring expression comprehension (REC) involves localizing a target instance based on a textual description. Recent advancements in REC have been driven by large multimodal models (LMMs) like CogVLM, which achieved 92.44% accuracy on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Jierun Chen , Fangyun Wei , Jinjing Zhao , Sizhe Song , Bohuai Wu , Zhuoxuan Peng , S. -H. Gary Chan , Hongyang Zhang

In this paper, we introduce SemiRES, a semi-supervised framework that effectively leverages a combination of labeled and unlabeled data to perform RES. A significant hurdle in applying semi-supervised techniques to RES is the prevalence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Danni Yang , Jiayi Ji , Yiwei Ma , Tianyu Guo , Haowei Wang , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has gained significant attention for its impressive performance in image segmentation. However, it lacks proficiency in referring video object segmentation (RVOS) due to the need for precise user-interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yonglin Li , Jing Zhang , Xiao Teng , Long Lan , Xinwang Liu

Referring expression segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision that integrates natural language understanding with precise visual localization of target regions. Considering aerial imagery (e.g., modern aerial photos collected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Luís Marnoto , Alexandre Bernardino , Bruno Martins

Text-to-image retrieval (TIR) aims to find relevant images based on a textual query, but existing approaches are primarily based on whole-image captions and lack interpretability. Meanwhile, referring expression segmentation (RES) enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Li-Cheng Shen , Jih-Kang Hsieh , Wei-Hua Li , Chu-Song Chen

Instruction-driven segmentation in remote sensing generates masks from guidance, offering great potential for accessible and generalizable applications. However, existing methods suffer from fragmented task formulations and limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shuo Ni , Di Wang , He Chen , Haonan Guo , Ning Zhang , Jing Zhang

Referring image segmentation aims to segment the target object referred by a natural language expression. However, previous methods rely on the strong assumption that one sentence must describe one target in the image, which is often not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yutao Hu , Qixiong Wang , Wenqi Shao , Enze Xie , Zhenguo Li , Jungong Han , Ping Luo

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) links language to region level visual perception. Standard benchmarks (RefCOCO, RefCOCO+, RefCOCOg) have progressed rapidly with multimodal LLMs but remain weak tests of visual reasoning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Qihua Dong , Kuo Yang , Lin Ju , Handong Zhao , Yitian Zhang , Yizhou Wang , Huimin Zeng , Jianglin Lu , Yun Fu

Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (RRSIS) aims to segment instances in remote sensing images according to referring expressions. Unlike Referring Image Segmentation on general images, acquiring high-quality referring expressions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Kai Ye , Bowen Liu , Jianghang Lin , Jiayi Ji , Pingyang Dai , Liujuan Cao

Referring 3D Segmentation is a visual-language task that segments all points of the specified object from a 3D point cloud described by a sentence of query. Previous works perform a two-stage paradigm, first conducting language-agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Xuexun Liu , Xiaoxu Xu , Jinlong Li , Qiudan Zhang , Xu Wang , Nicu Sebe , Lin Ma

Text-prompted image segmentation enables fine-grained visual understanding and is critical for applications such as human-computer interaction and robotics. However, existing supervised fine-tuning methods typically ignore explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Lianghui Zhu , Bin Ouyang , Yuxuan Zhang , Tianheng Cheng , Rui Hu , Haocheng Shen , Longjin Ran , Xiaoxin Chen , Li Yu , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

In this work, we address the challenging task of referring segmentation. The query expression in referring segmentation typically indicates the target object by describing its relationship with others. Therefore, to find the target one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Henghui Ding , Chang Liu , Suchen Wang , Xudong Jiang

Referring expression comprehension (REC) aims to localize a target object within an image based on a given expression. Although recent advances in vision-language models have led to substantial improvements in REC tasks, current REC…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zongjian Wu , Lei Zhang

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment the target instance in a video, referred by a text expression. Conventional approaches are mostly supervised learning, requiring expensive pixel-level mask annotations. To tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Miaojing Shi , Jun Huang , Zijie Yue , Hanli Wang

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) is a task that aims to segment the target object in all video frames based on a sentence describing the object. Although existing RVOS methods have achieved significant performance, they depend on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Wangbo Zhao , Kepan Nan , Songyang Zhang , Kai Chen , Dahua Lin , Yang You

The goal of this work is to segment the objects in an image that are referred to by a sequence of linguistic descriptions (referring expressions). We propose a deep neural network with recurrent layers that output a sequence of binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Alba Herrera-Palacio , Carles Ventura , Carina Silberer , Ionut-Teodor Sorodoc , Gemma Boleda , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Recent Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) demonstrate promising capabilities in unifying visual understanding and generative modeling, enabling both accurate content understanding and flexible editing. However, current approaches treat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Fan Yang , Yousong Zhu , Xin Li , Yufei Zhan , Hongyin Zhao , Shurong Zheng , Yaowei Wang , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is an emerging research spot in computer vision, which refers to detecting the target region in an image given an text description. Most existing REC methods follow a multi-stage pipeline, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Yiyi Zhou , Rongrong Ji , Gen Luo , Xiaoshuai Sun , Jinsong Su , Xinghao Ding , Chia-wen Lin , Qi Tian

The task of referring video object segmentation aims to segment the object in the frames of a given video to which the referring expressions refer. Previous methods adopt multi-stage approach and design complex pipelines to obtain promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Zhiwei Hu , Bo Chen , Yuan Gao , Zhilong Ji , Jinfeng Bai

Visual grounding (VG) occupies a pivotal position in multi-modality vision-language models. In this study, we propose ViLaM, a large multi-modality model, that supports multi-tasks of VG using the cycle training strategy, with abundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Xiaoyu Yang , Lijian Xu , Hao Sun , Hongsheng Li , Shaoting Zhang