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Referring Expression Comprehension and Segmentation are critical tasks for assessing the integration of language understanding and image comprehension, serving as benchmarks for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) capabilities. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Qihua Dong , Luis Figueroa , Handong Zhao , Kushal Kafle , Jason Kuen , Zhihong Ding , Scott Cohen , Yun Fu

As a novel and challenging task, referring segmentation combines computer vision and natural language processing to localize and segment objects based on textual descriptions. While referring image segmentation (RIS) has been extensively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Rui Li , Xiaowei Zhao

Generalist models have achieved remarkable success in both language and vision-language tasks, showcasing the potential of unified modeling. However, effectively integrating fine-grained perception tasks like detection and segmentation into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Hao Tang , Chenwei Xie , Haiyang Wang , Xiaoyi Bao , Tingyu Weng , Pandeng Li , Yun Zheng , Liwei Wang

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) - the problem of identifying objects in images through natural language sentences - is a challenging task currently mostly solved through supervised learning. However, while collecting referred annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Francisco Eiras , Kemal Oksuz , Adel Bibi , Philip H. S. Torr , Puneet K. Dokania

We propose an approach to referring expression generation (REG) in visually grounded dialogue that is meant to produce referring expressions (REs) that are both discriminative and discourse-appropriate. Our method constitutes a two-stage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Bram Willemsen , Gabriel Skantze

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

The fusion of Large Language Models with vision models is pioneering new possibilities in user-interactive vision-language tasks. A notable application is reasoning segmentation, where models generate pixel-level segmentation masks by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Donggon Jang , Yucheol Cho , Suin Lee , Taehyeon Kim , Dae-Shik Kim

Referring expression comprehension (REC) aims at achieving object localization based on natural language descriptions. However, existing REC approaches are constrained by object category descriptions and single-attribute intention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Hao Guo , Jianfei Zhu , Wei Fan , Chunzhi Yi , Feng Jiang

Given a language expression, referring remote sensing image segmentation (RRSIS) aims to identify ground objects and assign pixel-wise labels within the imagery. The one of key challenges for this task is to capture discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Sen Lei , Xinyu Xiao , Tianlin Zhang , Heng-Chao Li , Zhenwei Shi , Qing Zhu

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) aims to segment an object described in natural language from an image, with the main challenge being a text-to-pixel correlation. Previous methods typically rely on single-modality features, such as vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yichen Yan , Xingjian He , Sihan Chen , Shichen Lu , Jing Liu

Semi-supervised referring expression segmentation (SS-RES) aims to achieve precise pixel-level language grounding under limited annotation, yet suffers from limited supervision and unreliable pseudo-labels when exploiting unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Runlong Cao , Ying Zang , Chuanwei Zhou , Tianrun Chen , Tong Zhang , Zhen Cui , Chunyan Xu

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

This paper aims to achieve universal segmentation of arbitrary semantic level. Despite significant progress in recent years, specialist segmentation approaches are limited to specific tasks and data distribution. Retraining a new model for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Yong Liu , Cairong Zhang , Yitong Wang , Jiahao Wang , Yujiu Yang , Yansong Tang

We consider the problem of referring camouflaged object detection (Ref-COD), a new task that aims to segment specified camouflaged objects based on a small set of referring images with salient target objects. We first assemble a large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xuying Zhang , Bowen Yin , Zheng Lin , Qibin Hou , Deng-Ping Fan , Ming-Ming Cheng

Multi-task visual grounding involves the simultaneous execution of localization and segmentation in images based on textual expressions. The majority of advanced methods predominantly focus on transformer-based multimodal fusion, aiming to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Ming Dai , Jian Li , Jiedong Zhuang , Xian Zhang , Wankou Yang

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

3D referring segmentation is an emerging and challenging vision-language task that aims to segment the object described by a natural language expression in a point cloud scene. The key challenge behind this task is vision-language feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Shuting He , Henghui Ding

Remote sensing video referring object segmentation (RS-RVOS) is challenged by weak target saliency and severe visual information truncation in dynamic scenes, making it extremely difficult to maintain discriminative target representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 H. Jiang , Y. Sun , Z. Dong , T. Liu , Y. Gu

Most existing 3D referring expression segmentation (3DRES) methods rely on dense, high-quality point clouds, while real-world agents such as robots and mobile phones operate with only a few sparse RGB views and strict latency constraints.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Changli Wu , Haodong Wang , Jiayi Ji , Yutian Yao , Chunsai Du , Jihua Kang , Yanwei Fu , Liujuan Cao

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
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