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Image-Text Retrieval (ITR) finds broad applications in healthcare, aiding clinicians and radiologists by automatically retrieving relevant patient cases in the database given the query image and/or report, for more efficient clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Meng Zheng , Jiajin Zhang , Benjamin Planche , Zhongpai Gao , Terrence Chen , Ziyan Wu

Composed image retrieval (CIR) is the task of retrieving a target image specified by a query image and a relative text that describes a semantic modification to the query image. Existing methods in CIR struggle to accurately represent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Eric Xing , Pranavi Kolouju , Robert Pless , Abby Stylianou , Nathan Jacobs

Enabling bi-directional retrieval of images and texts is important for understanding the correspondence between vision and language. Existing methods leverage the attention mechanism to explore such correspondence in a fine-grained manner.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Hui Chen , Guiguang Ding , Xudong Liu , Zijia Lin , Ji Liu , Jungong Han

Retrieval is being redefined by agentic AI, demanding multimodal reasoning beyond conventional similarity-based paradigms. Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) exemplifies this shift as each query combines a reference image with textual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Zhongyu Yang , Wei Pang , Yingfang Yuan

Despite the progress of image segmentation for accurate visual entity segmentation, completing the diverse requirements of image editing applications for different-level region-of-interest selections remains unsolved. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Lu Qi , Jason Kuen , Weidong Guo , Jiuxiang Gu , Zhe Lin , Bo Du , Yu Xu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

We present Moondream Segmentation, a referring image segmentation extension of Moondream 3, a vision-language model. Given an image and a referring expression, the model autoregressively decodes a vector path and iteratively refines the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Ethan Reid

Image retrieval remains a fundamental yet challenging problem in computer vision. While recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong reasoning capabilities, existing methods typically employ them only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Shangrong Wu , Yanghong Zhou , Yang Chen , Feng Zhang , P. Y. Mok

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) has emerged as a promising method for deriving visual representations from unlabeled image data by predicting missing pixels from masked portions of images. It excels in region-aware learning and provides strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yibing Wei , Abhinav Gupta , Pedro Morgado

Given a language expression, referring remote sensing image segmentation (RRSIS) aims to identify ground objects and assign pixel-wise labels within the imagery. The one of key challenges for this task is to capture discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Sen Lei , Xinyu Xiao , Tianlin Zhang , Heng-Chao Li , Zhenwei Shi , Qing Zhu

Remote Sensing Image-Text Retrieval (RSITR) is pivotal for knowledge services and data mining in the remote sensing (RS) domain. Considering the multi-scale representations in image content and text vocabulary can enable the models to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Rui Yang , Shuang Wang , Yingping Han , Yuanheng Li , Dong Zhao , Dou Quan , Yanhe Guo , Licheng Jiao

The fusion of Large Language Models with vision models is pioneering new possibilities in user-interactive vision-language tasks. A notable application is reasoning segmentation, where models generate pixel-level segmentation masks by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Donggon Jang , Yucheol Cho , Suin Lee , Taehyeon Kim , Dae-Shik Kim

We present REM, a framework for segmenting a wide range of concepts in video that can be described through natural language. Our method leverages the universal visual-language mapping learned by video diffusion models on Internet-scale data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Anurag Bagchi , Zhipeng Bao , Yu-Xiong Wang , Pavel Tokmakov , Martial Hebert

Multimodal representation learning has shown promising improvements on various vision-language tasks. Most existing methods excel at building global-level alignment between vision and language while lacking effective fine-grained image-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Zijia Zhao , Longteng Guo , Xingjian He , Shuai Shao , Zehuan Yuan , Jing Liu

The task of video object segmentation with referring expressions (language-guided VOS) is to, given a linguistic phrase and a video, generate binary masks for the object to which the phrase refers. Our work argues that existing benchmarks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Miriam Bellver , Carles Ventura , Carina Silberer , Ioannis Kazakos , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Although perception systems have made remarkable advancements in recent years, they still rely on explicit human instruction or pre-defined categories to identify the target objects before executing visual recognition tasks. Such systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Xin Lai , Zhuotao Tian , Yukang Chen , Yanwei Li , Yuhui Yuan , Shu Liu , Jiaya Jia

Generalised 3D Referring Expression Segmentation (3D-GRES) localizes objects in 3D scenes based on natural language, even when descriptions match multiple or zero targets. Existing methods rely solely on sparse point clouds, lacking rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Keshen Zhou , Runnan Chen , Mingming Gong , Tongliang Liu

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to search an image of interest using a combination of a reference image and modification text as the query. Despite recent advancements, this task remains challenging due to limited training data and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Yinan Zhou , Yaxiong Wang , Haokun Lin , Chen Ma , Li Zhu , Zhedong Zheng

Text-to-image (T2I) generation models have made significant strides but still struggle with prompt sensitivity: even minor changes in prompt wording can yield inconsistent or inaccurate outputs. To address this challenge, we introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Mohammad Abdul Hafeez Khan , Yash Jain , Siddhartha Bhattacharyya , Vibhav Vineet

Referring image segmentation aims to produce a pixel-level mask for the image region described by a natural-language expression. Although pretrained vision-language models have improved semantic grounding, many existing methods still rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Alaa Dalaq , Muzammil Behzad

The Visual Object Information Retrieval (VOIR) system described in this paper implements an image retrieval approach that combines two layers, the conceptual and the visual layer. It uses terms from a textual thesaurus to represent the…

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