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Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment target objects throughout a video based on a text description. This is challenging as it involves deep vision-language understanding, pixel-level dense prediction and spatiotemporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Tianming Liang , Kun-Yu Lin , Chaolei Tan , Jianguo Zhang , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jian-Fang Hu

In clinical practice, segmenting specific lesions based on the needs of physicians can significantly enhance diagnostic accuracy and treatment efficiency. However, conventional lesion segmentation models lack the flexibility to distinguish…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shuyi Ouyang , Jinyang Zhang , Xiangye Lin , Xilai Wang , Qingqing Chen , Yen-Wei Chen , Lanfen Lin

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) aims to localize the target objects specified by free-form natural language descriptions in images. While state-of-the-art methods achieve impressive performance, they perform a dense perception of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Wei Su , Peihan Miao , Huanzhang Dou , Xi Li

Visual grounding localizes regions (boxes or segments) in the image corresponding to given referring expressions. In this work we address image segmentation from referring expressions, a problem that has so far only been addressed in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Robin Strudel , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have expanded research in video understanding, primarily focusing on high-level tasks such as video captioning and question-answering. Meanwhile, a smaller body of work addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Ali Athar , Xueqing Deng , Liang-Chieh Chen

Referring Expressions Generation (REG) aims to produce textual descriptions that unambiguously identifies specific objects within a visual scene. Traditionally, this has been achieved through supervised learning methods, which perform well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Lior Bracha , Eitan Shaar , Aviv Shamsian , Ethan Fetaya , Gal Chechik

Open-world referring segmentation requires grounding unconstrained language expressions to precise pixel-level regions. Existing multimodal large language models (MLLMs) exhibit strong open-world visual grounding, but their outputs remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yuan Yao , Qiushi Yang , Humen Zhong , Jiangning Wei , Yifang Men , Shuai Bai , Miaomiao Cui , Zhibo Yang

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) requires segmenting specific objects in a video guided by a natural language description. The core challenge of RVOS is to anchor abstract linguistic concepts onto a specific set of pixels and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zanyi Wang , Dengyang Jiang , Liuzhuozheng Li , Sizhe Dang , Chengzu Li , Harry Yang , Guang Dai , Mengmeng Wang , Jingdong Wang

In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end model, namely Single-Stage Grounding network (SSG), to localize the referent given a referring expression within an image. Different from previous multi-stage models which rely on object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Xinpeng Chen , Lin Ma , Jingyuan Chen , Zequn Jie , Wei Liu , Jiebo Luo

Referring Audio-Visual Segmentation (Ref-AVS) aims to segment target objects in audible videos based on given reference expressions. Prior works typically rely on learning latent embeddings via multimodal fusion to prompt a tunable SAM/SAM2…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jinxing Zhou , Yanghao Zhou , Mingfei Han , Tong Wang , Xiaojun Chang , Hisham Cholakkal , Rao Muhammad Anwer

Reasoning Segmentation (RS) aims to delineate objects based on implicit text queries, the interpretation of which requires reasoning and knowledge integration. Unlike the traditional formulation of segmentation problems that relies on fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yiqing Shen , Chenjia Li , Fei Xiong , Jeong-O Jeong , Tianpeng Wang , Michael Latman , Mathias Unberath

This paper strives for motion expressions guided video segmentation, which focuses on segmenting objects in video content based on a sentence describing the motion of the objects. Existing referring video object datasets typically focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Henghui Ding , Chang Liu , Shuting He , Xudong Jiang , Chen Change Loy

While semantic segmentation has seen tremendous improvements in the past, there are still significant labeling efforts necessary and the problem of limited generalization to classes that have not been present during training. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Benedikt Blumenstiel , Johannes Jakubik , Hilde Kühne , Michael Vössing

Zero-shot referring expression comprehension (REC) aims to locate target objects in images given natural language queries without relying on task-specific training data, demanding strong visual understanding capabilities. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yike Wu , Necva Bolucu , Stephen Wan , Dadong Wang , Jiahao Xia , Jian Zhang

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) is a challenging task that aims to segment objects in an image based on natural language expressions. While prior studies have predominantly concentrated on improving vision-language interactions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Ming Dai , Wenxuan Cheng , Jiang-jiang Liu , Sen Yang , Wenxiao Cai , Yanpeng Sun , Wankou Yang

Referring Audio-Visual Segmentation (Ref-AVS) aims to segment specific objects in videos based on natural language expressions involving audio, vision, and text information. This task poses significant challenges in cross-modal reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Dian Jin , Yanghao Zhou , Jinxing Zhou , Jiaqi Ma , Ruohao Guo , Dan Guo

Referring image segmentation (RIS) aims to segment an object mentioned in natural language from an image. The main challenge is text-to-pixel fine-grained correlation. In the previous methods, the final results are obtained by convolutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yichen Yan , Xingjian He , Wenxuan Wang , Sihan Chen , Jing Liu

Recent advances in visual grounding have largely shifted away from traditional proposal-based two-stage frameworks due to their inefficiency and high computational complexity, favoring end-to-end direct reference paradigms. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Ming Dai , Wenxuan Cheng , Jiedong Zhuang , Jiang-jiang Liu , Hongshen Zhao , Zhenhua Feng , Wankou Yang

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

Grounding referring expressions in images aims to locate the object instance in an image described by a referring expression. It involves a joint understanding of natural language and image content, and is essential for a range of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Sibei Yang , Guanbin Li , Yizhou Yu