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Referring remote sensing image segmentation aims to localize specific targets described by natural language within complex overhead imagery. However, due to extreme scale variations, dense similar distractors, and intricate boundary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Yuzhe Sun , Zhe Dong , Haochen Jiang , Tianzhu Liu , Yanfeng Gu

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across a wide range of vision-language tasks. However, due to the restricted input resolutions, MLLMs face significant challenges in precisely understanding and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Lu Zhang , Jiazuo Yu , Haomiao Xiong , Ping Hu , Yunzhi Zhuge , Huchuan Lu , You He

The prevailing framework for solving referring expression grounding is based on a two-stage process: 1) detecting proposals with an object detector and 2) grounding the referent to one of the proposals. Existing two-stage solutions mostly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Long Chen , Wenbo Ma , Jun Xiao , Hanwang Zhang , Shih-Fu Chang

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) aims to segment image regions described by natural-language expressions, serving as a bridge between vision and language understanding. Existing RES methods, however, rely heavily on large annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Weiming Zhang , Dingwen Xiao , Songyue Guo , Guangyu Xiang , Shiqi Wen , Minwei Zhao , Lei Chen , Lin Wang

Recent advances in deep learning have brought significant progress in visual grounding tasks such as language-guided video object segmentation. However, collecting large datasets for these tasks is expensive in terms of annotation time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Ioannis Kazakos , Carles Ventura , Miriam Bellver , Carina Silberer , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Existing Video Object Segmentation (VOS) relies on explicit user instructions, such as categories, masks, or short phrases, restricting their ability to perform complex video segmentation requiring reasoning with world knowledge. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Cilin Yan , Haochen Wang , Shilin Yan , Xiaolong Jiang , Yao Hu , Guoliang Kang , Weidi Xie , Efstratios Gavves

Referring image segmentation is a fundamental vision-language task that aims to segment out an object referred to by a natural language expression from an image. One of the key challenges behind this task is leveraging the referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Zhao Yang , Jiaqi Wang , Yansong Tang , Kai Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip H. S. Torr

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have achieved significant progress by extending large language models. Building on this progress, the latest developments in LMMs demonstrate the ability to generate dense pixel-wise segmentation through the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Li Zhou , Xu Yuan , Zenghui Sun , Zikun Zhou , Jingsong Lan

Referring Image Understanding (RIS) has been extensively studied over the past decade, leading to the development of advanced algorithms. However, there has been a lack of research investigating how existing algorithms should be benchmarked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Wei Ji , Li Li , Hao Fei , Xiangyan Liu , Xun Yang , Juncheng Li , Roger Zimmermann

Open-Vocabulary Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (OVRSIS), an emerging task that adapts Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) to the remote sensing (RS) domain, remains underexplored due to the absence of a unified evaluation benchmark and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Bingyu Li , Haocheng Dong , Da Zhang , Zhiyuan Zhao , Junyu Gao , Xuelong Li

Medical Referring Image Segmentation (MRIS) involves segmenting target regions in medical images based on natural language descriptions. While achieving promising results, recent approaches usually involve complex design of multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Xinyu Chen , Yiran Wang , Gaoyang Pang , Jiafu Hao , Chentao Yue , Luping Zhou , Yonghui Li

Multiple object video object segmentation is a challenging task, specially for the zero-shot case, when no object mask is given at the initial frame and the model has to find the objects to be segmented along the sequence. In our work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Carles Ventura , Miriam Bellver , Andreu Girbau , Amaia Salvador , Ferran Marques , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

It is well established that multiple reference sets may occur for a decision making unit (DMU) in the non-radial DEA (data envelopment analysis) setting. As our first contribution, we differentiate between three types of reference set.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-01 Mahmood Mehdiloozad , S. Morteza Mirdehghan , Biresh K. Sahoo , Israfil Roshdi

Current referring video object segmentation (R-VOS) techniques extract conditional kernels from encoded (low-resolution) vision-language features to segment the decoded high-resolution features. We discovered that this causes significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Bo Miao , Mohammed Bennamoun , Yongsheng Gao , Ajmal Mian

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) aims to localize the referent of natural language referring expressions through two core tasks: Referring Expression Comprehension (3DREC) and Segmentation (3DRES). While existing methods achieve high accuracy in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Wenbin Tan , Jiawen Lin , Fangyong Wang , Yuan Xie , Yong Xie , Yachao Zhang , Yanyun Qu

Most existing approaches to referring segmentation achieve strong performance only through fine-tuning or by composing multiple pre-trained models, often at the cost of additional training and architectural modifications. Meanwhile,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Anna Kukleva , Enis Simsar , Alessio Tonioni , Muhammad Ferjad Naeem , Federico Tombari , Jan Eric Lenssen , Bernt Schiele

Referring expression grounding aims at locating certain objects or persons in an image with a referring expression, where the key challenge is to comprehend and align various types of information from visual and textual domain, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Xihui Liu , Zihao Wang , Jing Shao , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

Interactive segmentation aims to segment the specified target on the image with positive and negative clicks from users. Interactive ambiguity is a crucial issue in this field, which refers to the possibility of multiple compliant outcomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Zheng Lin , Nan Zhou , Chen-Xi Du , Deng-Ping Fan , Shi-Min Hu

Referring expression comprehension (REF) aims at identifying a particular object in a scene by a natural language expression. It requires joint reasoning over the textual and visual domains to solve the problem. Some popular referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Zhenfang Chen , Peng Wang , Lin Ma , Kwan-Yee K. Wong , Qi Wu

The referring video object segmentation task (RVOS) aims to segment object instances in a given video referred by a language expression in all video frames. Due to the requirement of understanding cross-modal semantics within individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Leilei Cao , Zhuang Li , Bo Yan , Feng Zhang , Fengliang Qi , Yuchen Hu , Hongbin Wang