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Zero-shot referring image segmentation aims to locate and segment the target region based on a referring expression, with the primary challenge of aligning and matching semantics across visual and textual modalities without training.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Jiachen Li , Qing Xie , Renshu Gu , Jinyu Xu , Yongjian Liu , Xiaohan Yu

Embodied Reference Understanding requires identifying a target object in a visual scene based on both language instructions and pointing cues. While prior works have shown progress in open-vocabulary object detection, they often fail in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Fevziye Irem Eyiokur , Dogucan Yaman , Hazım Kemal Ekenel , Alexander Waibel

Recent advances in large vision-language models (VLMs) have shown significant promise for 3D scene understanding. Existing VLM-based approaches typically align 3D scene features with the VLM's embedding space. However, this implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Chen Li , Eric Peh , Basura Fernando

This paper strives for motion expressions guided video segmentation, which focuses on segmenting objects in video content based on a sentence describing the motion of the objects. Existing referring video object datasets typically focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Henghui Ding , Chang Liu , Shuting He , Xudong Jiang , Chen Change Loy

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

Towards holistic understanding of 3D scenes, a general 3D segmentation method is needed that can segment diverse objects without restrictions on object quantity or categories, while also reflecting the inherent hierarchical structure. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Haiyang Ying , Yixuan Yin , Jinzhi Zhang , Fan Wang , Tao Yu , Ruqi Huang , Lu Fang

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment the object referred to by the query sentence in the video. Most existing methods require end-to-end training with dense mask annotations, which could be computation-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Ci-Siang Lin , Min-Hung Chen , I-Jieh Liu , Chien-Yi Wang , Sifei Liu , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Existing referring understanding tasks tend to involve the detection of a single text-referred object. In this paper, we propose a new and general referring understanding task, termed referring multi-object tracking (RMOT). Its core idea is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Dongming Wu , Wencheng Han , Tiancai Wang , Xingping Dong , Xiangyu Zhang , Jianbing Shen

Referring video segmentation aims to segment the corresponding video object described by the language expression. To address this task, we first design a two-stream encoder to extract CNN-based visual features and transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Guang Feng , Lihe Zhang , Zhiwei Hu , Huchuan Lu

In this paper, we address the problem of referring expression comprehension in videos, which is challenging due to complex expression and scene dynamics. Unlike previous methods which solve the problem in multiple stages (i.e., tracking,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Sijie Song , Xudong Lin , Jiaying Liu , Zongming Guo , Shih-Fu Chang

Semantic segmentation of 3D meshes is an important problem for 3D scene understanding. In this paper we revisit the classic multiview representation of 3D meshes and study several techniques that make them effective for 3D semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Abhijit Kundu , Xiaoqi Yin , Alireza Fathi , David Ross , Brian Brewington , Thomas Funkhouser , Caroline Pantofaru

Video instance segmentation, also known as multi-object tracking and segmentation, is an emerging computer vision research area introduced in 2019, aiming at detecting, segmenting, and tracking instances in videos simultaneously. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Chenhao Xu , Chang-Tsun Li , Yongjian Hu , Chee Peng Lim , Douglas Creighton

Video segmentation encompasses a wide range of categories of problem formulation, e.g., object, scene, actor-action and multimodal video segmentation, for delineating task-specific scene components with pixel-level masks. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Rezaul Karim , Richard P. Wildes

Image segmentation is a key topic in image processing and computer vision with applications such as scene understanding, medical image analysis, robotic perception, video surveillance, augmented reality, and image compression, among many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Shervin Minaee , Yuri Boykov , Fatih Porikli , Antonio Plaza , Nasser Kehtarnavaz , Demetri Terzopoulos

We introduce the task of localizing a flexible number of objects in real-world 3D scenes using natural language descriptions. Existing 3D visual grounding tasks focus on localizing a unique object given a text description. However, such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Yiming Zhang , ZeMing Gong , Angel X. Chang

Inspired by recent advances of deep learning in instance segmentation and object tracking, we introduce video object segmentation problem as a concept of guided instance segmentation. Our model proceeds on a per-frame basis, guided by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Anna Khoreva , Federico Perazzi , Rodrigo Benenson , Bernt Schiele , Alexander Sorkine-Hornung

Recently, video object segmentation (VOS) referred by multi-modal signals, e.g., language and audio, has evoked increasing attention in both industry and academia. It is challenging for exploring the semantic alignment within modalities and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Shilin Yan , Renrui Zhang , Ziyu Guo , Wenchao Chen , Wei Zhang , Hongyang Li , Yu Qiao , Hao Dong , Zhongjiang He , Peng Gao

In this work, we address the task of referring image segmentation (RIS), which aims at predicting a segmentation mask for the object described by a natural language expression. Most existing methods focus on establishing unidirectional or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Jianhua Yang , Yan Huang , Zhanyu Ma , Liang Wang

Semantic Segmentation combines two sub-tasks: the identification of pixel-level image masks and the application of semantic labels to those masks. Recently, so-called Foundation Models have been introduced; general models trained on very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 David Balaban , Justin Medich , Pranay Gosar , Justin Hart

Understanding 3D scenes from multi-view inputs has been proven to alleviate the view discrepancy issue in 3D visual grounding. However, existing methods normally neglect the view cues embedded in the text modality and fail to weigh the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Zoey Guo , Yiwen Tang , Ray Zhang , Dong Wang , Zhigang Wang , Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li
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