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Reasoning segmentation requires models to ground complex, implicit textual queries into precise pixel-level masks. Existing approaches rely on a single segmentation token $\texttt{<SEG>}$, whose hidden state implicitly encodes both semantic…

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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown exceptional capabilities in vision-language tasks. However, effectively integrating image segmentation into these models remains a significant challenge. In this work, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Mengcheng Lan , Chaofeng Chen , Jiaxing Xu , Zongrui Li , Yiping Ke , Xudong Jiang , Yingchen Yu , Yunqing Zhao , Song Bai

Conversational image segmentation grounds abstract, intent-driven concepts into pixel-accurate masks. Prior work on referring image grounding focuses on categorical and spatial queries (e.g., "left-most apple") and overlooks functional and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Aadarsh Sahoo , Georgia Gkioxari

Recent progress in multimodal reasoning has enabled agents that interpret imagery, connect it with language, and execute structured analytical tasks. Extending these capabilities to remote sensing remains challenging, as models must reason…

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

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in remote sensing often fail at complex analytical tasks, a limitation stemming from their end-to-end training paradigm that bypasses crucial reasoning steps and leads to unverifiable outputs. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jiaqi Liu , Lang Sun , Ronghao Fu , Bo Yang

Remote sensing change detection (RSCD), a complex multi-image inference task, traditionally uses pixel-based operators or encoder-decoder networks that inadequately capture high-level semantics and are vulnerable to non-semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Xingwei Ma , Shiyang Feng , Bo Zhang , Bin Wang

While large language models provide strong compositional reasoning, existing reasoning segmentation pipelines fail to transparently connect this reasoning to visual perception. Current methods, such as latent query alignment, are end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zhenyu Lu , Liupeng Li , Jinpeng Wang , Haoqian Kang , Yan Feng , Ke Chen , Yaowei Wang

Geographic reasoning is a fundamental cognitive capability that requires models to infer plausible locations by synthesizing visual evidence with spatial world knowledge. Despite recent advances in large vision-language models (LVLMs),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Pengyue Jia , Yingyi Zhang , Xiangyu Zhao , Sharon Li

Interactive segmentation, a computer vision technique where a user provides guidance to help an algorithm segment a feature of interest in an image, has achieved outstanding accuracy and efficient human-computer interaction. However, few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Zhe Wang , Shoukun Sun , Xiang Que , Xiaogang Ma , Carmen Galaz Garcia

Semantic segmentation aims to robustly predict coherent class labels for entire regions of an image. It is a scene understanding task that powers real-world applications (e.g., autonomous navigation). One important application, the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Yuxiang Zhang , Sachin Mehta , Anat Caspi

Language-guided segmentation transcends the scope limitations of traditional semantic segmentation, enabling models to segment arbitrary target regions based on natural language instructions. Existing approaches typically adopt a two-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Chao Hao , Jun Xu , Ji Du , Shuo Ye , Ziyue Qiao , Xiaodong Cun , Guangcong Wang , Xubin Zheng , Zitong Yu

Localizing desired objects from remote sensing images is of great use in practical applications. Referring image segmentation, which aims at segmenting out the objects to which a given expression refers, has been extensively studied in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zhenghang Yuan , Lichao Mou , Yuansheng Hua , Xiao Xiang Zhu

The development of high-resolution remote sensing satellites has provided great convenience for research work related to remote sensing. Segmentation and extraction of specific targets are essential tasks when facing the vast and complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jie Zhang , Xubing Yang , Rui Jiang , Wei Shao , Li Zhang

Remote sensing semantic segmentation is crucial for extracting detailed land surface information, enabling applications such as environmental monitoring, land use planning, and resource assessment. In recent years, advancements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ning Zhou , Shanxiong Chen , Mingting Zhou , Haigang Sui , Lieyun Hu , Han Li , Li Hua , Qiming Zhou

Real-time semantic segmentation of remote sensing imagery is a challenging task that requires a trade-off between effectiveness and efficiency. It has many applications including tracking forest fires, detecting changes in land use and land…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Clifford Broni-Bediako , Junshi Xia , Naoto Yokoya

Effective foundation modeling in remote sensing requires spatially aligned heterogeneous modalities coupled with semantically grounded supervision, yet such resources remain limited at scale. We present GeoMeld, a large-scale multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Maram Hasan , Md Aminur Hossain , Savitra Roy , Souparna Bhowmik , Ayush V. Patel , Mainak Singha , Subhasis Chaudhuri , Muhammad Haris Khan , Biplab Banerjee

Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) has drawn increasing attention for its capacity to generalize segmentation beyond predefined categories. However, existing methods typically predict segmentation masks with simple forward inference,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Zongyan Han , Jiale Cao , Shuo Chen , Tong Wang , Jorma Laaksonen , Rao Muhammad Anwer

Segmentation based on language has been a popular topic in computer vision. While recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have endowed segmentation systems with reasoning capabilities, these efforts remain confined by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Tianming Liang , Qirui Du , Jian-Fang Hu , Haichao Jiang , Zicheng Lin , Wei-Shi Zheng

Recent advancements in 3D perception systems have significantly improved their ability to perform visual recognition tasks such as segmentation. However, these systems still heavily rely on explicit human instruction to identify target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Amrin Kareem , Jean Lahoud , Hisham Cholakkal