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Reference Expression Segmentation (RES) aims to segment image regions specified by referring expressions and has become popular with the rise of multimodal large models (MLLMs). While MLLMs excel in semantic understanding, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Jingchao Wang , Zhijian Wu , Dingjiang Huang , Yefeng Zheng , Hong Wang

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

Reference-based object composition involves integrating foreground reference image with background scene to produce harmonious fused image. This task becomes particularly challenging in cross-domain scenarios, where models must balance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Raghu Vamsi Chittersu , Yuvraj Singh Rathore , Pranav Adlinge , Kunal Swami

Referring expression segmentation (RES) aims at segmenting the entities' masks that match the descriptive language expression. While traditional RES methods primarily address object-level grounding, real-world scenarios demand a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Jing Liu , Wenxuan Wang , Yisi Zhang , Yepeng Tang , Xingjian He , Longteng Guo , Tongtian Yue , Xinlong Wang

We propose a new framework that automatically generates high-quality segmentation masks with their referring expressions as pseudo supervisions for referring image segmentation (RIS). These pseudo supervisions allow the training of any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Seonghoon Yu , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Jeany Son

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

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation is a challenging task that requires segmenting novel object categories at inference time. Recent studies have explored vision-language pre-training to handle this task, but suffer from unrealistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Chaofan Ma , Yuhuan Yang , Chen Ju , Fei Zhang , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

In this paper, we propose a novel task termed Omni-Referring Image Segmentation (OmniRIS) towards highly generalized image segmentation. Compared with existing unimodally conditioned segmentation tasks, such as RIS and visual RIS, OmniRIS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Qiancheng Zheng , Yunhang Shen , Gen Luo , Baiyang Song , Xing Sun , Xiaoshuai Sun , Yiyi Zhou , Rongrong Ji

Interactive segmentation models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) have demonstrated remarkable generalization on natural images, but they perform suboptimally on remote sensing imagery (RSI) due to severe domain shifts and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 M. Naseer Subhani

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

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

Zero-shot referring image segmentation is a challenging task because it aims to find an instance segmentation mask based on the given referring descriptions, without training on this type of paired data. Current zero-shot methods mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Minheng Ni , Yabo Zhang , Kailai Feng , Xiaoming Li , Yiwen Guo , Wangmeng Zuo

Training a referring expression comprehension (ReC) model for a new visual domain requires collecting referring expressions, and potentially corresponding bounding boxes, for images in the domain. While large-scale pre-trained models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Sanjay Subramanian , William Merrill , Trevor Darrell , Matt Gardner , Sameer Singh , Anna Rohrbach

The recent Segment Anything Model (SAM) has emerged as a new paradigmatic vision foundation model, showcasing potent zero-shot generalization and flexible prompting. Despite SAM finding applications and adaptations in various domains, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Xumeng Han , Longhui Wei , Xuehui Yu , Zhiyang Dou , Xin He , Kuiran Wang , Yingfei Sun , Zhenjun Han , Qi Tian

In this paper, we study a challenging task of zero-shot referring image segmentation. This task aims to identify the instance mask that is most related to a referring expression without training on pixel-level annotations. Previous research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Yucheng Suo , Linchao Zhu , Yi Yang

In this paper, we introduce a new task: Zero-Shot 3D Reasoning Segmentation for parts searching and localization for objects, which is a new paradigm to 3D segmentation that transcends limitations for previous category-specific 3D semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Tianrun Chen , Chunan Yu , Jing Li , Jianqi Zhang , Lanyun Zhu , Deyi Ji , Yong Zhang , Ying Zang , Zejian Li , Lingyun Sun

In this work, we address the task of few-shot part segmentation, which aims to segment the different parts of an unseen object using very few labeled examples. It is found that leveraging the textual space of a powerful pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Mengya Han , Heliang Zheng , Chaoyue Wang , Yong Luo , Han Hu , Jing Zhang , Yonggang Wen

Large foundation models, known for their strong zero-shot generalization, have excelled in visual and language applications. However, applying them to medical image segmentation, a domain with diverse imaging types and target labels,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Junde Wu , Jiayuan Zhu , Yueming Jin , Min Xu

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment out the object in a video referred by an expression. Current RVOS methods view referring expressions as unstructured sequences, neglecting their crucial semantic structure essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Huihui Xu , Jiashi Lin , Haoyu Chen , Junjun He , Lei Zhu

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) offers immense potential in the field of medical image analysis, enabling accurate object segmentation with limited training data. However, existing FSS techniques heavily rely on annotated semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Reza Azad , Dorit Merhof