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Semantic segmentation has achieved significant advances in recent years. While deep neural networks perform semantic segmentation well, their success rely on pixel level supervision which is expensive and time-consuming. Further, training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Ying Chen , Xu Ouyang , Kaiyue Zhu , Gady Agam

Effectively grounding complex language to pixels in remote sensing (RS) images is a critical challenge for applications like disaster response and environmental monitoring. Current models can parse simple, single-target commands but fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Zepeng Xin , Kaiyu Li , Luodi Chen , Wanchen Li , Yuchen Xiao , Hui Qiao , Weizhan Zhang , Deyu Meng , Xiangyong Cao

Referring image segmentation (RIS) is a fundamental vision-language task that intends to segment a desired object from an image based on a given natural language expression. Due to the essentially distinct data properties between image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Wenxuan Wang , Jing Liu , Xingjian He , Yisi Zhang , Chen Chen , Jiachen Shen , Yan Zhang , Jiangyun Li

Super resolution offers a way to harness medium even lowresolution but historically valuable remote sensing image archives. Generative models, especially diffusion models, have recently been applied to remote sensing super resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Songxi Yang , Tang Sui , Qunying Huang

The generation and enhancement of satellite imagery are critical in remote sensing, requiring high-quality, detailed images for accurate analysis. This research introduces a two-stage diffusion model methodology for synthesizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Ahmad Sebaq , Mohamed ElHelw

The advancement of RS technology has enabled high-resolution Earth observation; however, interpreting these images using modern VFMs remains a significant challenge. Unlike object-centric natural images, RS imagery is fundamentally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Keyan Chen , Chenyang Liu , Bowen Chen , Wenyuan Li , Zhengxia Zou , Shijian Lu , Zhenwei Shi

Interactive image segmentation(IIS) plays a critical role in generating precise annotations for remote sensing imagery, where objects often exhibit scale variations, irregular boundaries and complex backgrounds. However, existing IIS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Deliang Wang , Peng Liu , Yan Ma , Rongkai Zhuang , Lajiao Chen , Bing Li , Yi Zeng

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS), which aims to segment specific objects based on natural language descriptions, plays an essential role in vision-language understanding. Despite its progress in remote sensing applications, RIS in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Kai Ye , YingShi Luan , Zhudi Chen , Guangyue Meng , Pingyang Dai , Liujuan Cao

Diffusion models have recently achieved remarkable performance in image super-resolution (SR), but their high computational cost limits practical deployment in remote sensing applications. To address this issue, we propose SlimDiffSR, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ce Wang , Zhenyu Hu , Wanjie Sun

High-resolution remote sensing images contain densely distributed objects with pronounced scale variations and complex boundaries, which impose higher demands on both the geometric localization and semantic prediction capabilities of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jianzheng Wang , Huan Ni

As a newly emerging advance in deep generative models, diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art results in many fields, including computer vision, natural language processing, and molecule design. The remote sensing (RS) community…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Yidan Liu , Jun Yue , Shaobo Xia , Pedram Ghamisi , Weiying Xie , Leyuan Fang

Recently, reference-based image super-resolution (RefSR) has shown excellent performance in image super-resolution (SR) tasks. The main idea of RefSR is to utilize additional information from the reference (Ref) image to recover the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Jeongho Min , Yejun Lee , Dongyoung Kim , Jaejun Yoo

Image restoration aims to enhance low quality images, producing high quality images that exhibit natural visual characteristics and fine semantic attributes. Recently, the diffusion model has emerged as a powerful technique for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jiangtong Tan , Feng Zhao

Open-vocabulary remote sensing image segmentation (OVRSIS) remains underexplored due to fragmented datasets, limited training diversity, and the lack of evaluation benchmarks that reflect realistic geospatial application demands. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Bingyu Li , Tao Huo , Haocheng Dong , Da Zhang , Zhiyuan Zhao , Junyu Gao , Xuelong Li

Recently, deep learning based methods have revolutionized remote sensing image segmentation. However, these methods usually rely on a pre-defined semantic class set, thus needing additional image annotation and model training when adapting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Chengyang Ye , Yunzhi Zhuge , Pingping Zhang

Image super-resolution (SR) aims to reconstruct high resolution images with both high perceptual quality and low distortion, but is fundamentally limited by the perception-distortion trade-off. GAN-based SR methods reduce distortion but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dan Wang , Haiyan Sun , Shan Du , Z. Jane Wang , Zhaochong An , Serge Belongie , Xinrui Cui

As a specific semantic segmentation task, aerial imagery segmentation has been widely employed in high spatial resolution (HSR) remote sensing images understanding. Besides common issues (e.g. large scale variation) faced by general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Lin Huang , Qiyuan Dong , Lijun Wu , Jia Zhang , Jiang Bian , Tie-Yan Liu

Remote sensing image super-resolution (RSISR) is a crucial task in remote sensing image processing, aiming to reconstruct high-resolution (HR) images from their low-resolution (LR) counterparts. Despite the growing number of RSISR methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Yunliang Qi , Meng Lou , Yimin Liu , Lu Li , Zhen Yang , Wen Nie

Unsupervised visual object tracking is a challenging task that requires following arbitrary targets in videos without training on ground-truth annotations. Despite considerable progress, existing state-of-the-art unsupervised trackers often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zhengbo Zhang , Zhigang Tu , Junsong Yuan , De Wen Soh , Bo Du

This paper explores the weakly-supervised referring image segmentation (WRIS) problem, and focuses on a challenging setup where target localization is learned directly from image-text pairs. We note that the input text description typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Zaiquan Yang , Yuhao Liu , Jiaying Lin , Gerhard Hancke , Rynson W. H. Lau