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Existing visual grounding benchmarks primarily evaluate alignment between image regions and literal referring expressions, where models can often succeed by matching a prominent named category. We explore a complementary and more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Ruozhen He , Nisarg A. Shah , Qihua Dong , Zilin Xiao , Jaywon Koo , Vicente Ordonez

Referring expression comprehension (REF) aims at identifying a particular object in a scene by a natural language expression. It requires joint reasoning over the textual and visual domains to solve the problem. Some popular referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Zhenfang Chen , Peng Wang , Lin Ma , Kwan-Yee K. Wong , Qi Wu

Referring Expression Generation (REG) aims to generate unambiguous Referring Expressions (REs) for objects in a visual scene, with a dual task of Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) to locate the referred object. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Fulong Ye , Yuxing Long , Fangxiang Feng , Xiaojie Wang

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) aims to localize specified entities or regions in an image based on natural language descriptions. While existing methods handle single-entity localization, they often ignore complex inter-entity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Yizhi Hu , Zezhao Tian , Xingqun Qi , Chen Su , Bingkun Yang , Junhui Yin , Muyi Sun , Man Zhang , Zhenan Sun

Referring expression comprehension (REC) aims to localize the target object described by a natural language expression. Recent advances in vision-language learning have led to significant performance improvements in REC tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Kanoko Goto , Takumi Hirose , Mahiro Ukai , Shuhei Kurita , Nakamasa Inoue

Referring image segmentation (RIS) aims to find a segmentation mask given a referring expression grounded to a region of the input image. Collecting labelled datasets for this task, however, is notoriously costly and labor-intensive. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Seonghoon Yu , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Jeany Son

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is a popular multimodal task that aims to accurately detect target objects within a single image based on a given textual expression. However, due to the limitations of earlier models, traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Guanghao Jin , Jingpei Wu , Tianpei Guo , Yiyi Niu , Weidong Zhou , Guoyang Liu

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 Expression Comprehension (REC) requires models to localize objects in images based on natural language descriptions. Research on the area remains predominantly English-centric, despite increasing global deployment demands. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Francisco Nogueira , Alexandre Bernardino , Bruno Martins

This paper addresses the problem of 3D referring expression comprehension (REC) in autonomous driving scenario, which aims to ground a natural language to the targeted region in LiDAR point clouds. Previous approaches for REC usually focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Wenhao Cheng , Junbo Yin , Wei Li , Ruigang Yang , Jianbing Shen

As an important and challenging problem in vision-language tasks, referring expression comprehension (REC) generally requires a large amount of multi-grained information of visual and linguistic modalities to realize accurate reasoning. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Peihan Miao , Wei Su , Gaoang Wang , Xuewei Li , Xi Li

Referring expression comprehension (REC) aims to localize a text-related region in a given image by a referring expression in natural language. Existing methods focus on how to build convincing visual and language representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Shuai Wang , Fan Lyu , Wei Feng , Song Wang

Referring expression segmentation aims to segment an object described by a language expression from an image. Despite the recent progress on this task, existing models tackling this task may not be able to fully capture semantics and visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Li Xu , Mark He Huang , Xindi Shang , Zehuan Yuan , Ying Sun , Jun Liu

Referring remote sensing image segmentation is crucial for achieving fine-grained visual understanding through free-format textual input, enabling enhanced scene and object extraction in remote sensing applications. Current research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Keyan Chen , Jiafan Zhang , Chenyang Liu , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

Referring expression grounding is a core problem in visual grounding and is widely used as a diagnostic of spatial grounding and reasoning in vision and language models, yet most prior work focuses on natural images. In contrast, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Tianhao Niu , Ziyu Han , Qingfu Zhu , Wanxiang Che

Visual grounding localizes regions (boxes or segments) in the image corresponding to given referring expressions. In this work we address image segmentation from referring expressions, a problem that has so far only been addressed in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Robin Strudel , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is a foundational cross-modal task that evaluates the interplay of language understanding, image comprehension, and language-to-image grounding. It serves as an essential testing ground for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Xuzheng Yang , Junzhuo Liu , Peng Wang , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang , Heng Tao Shen

Video Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) aims to localize a target object in video frames referred by the natural language expression. Recently, the Transformerbased methods have greatly boosted the performance limit. However, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Ji Jiang , Meng Cao , Tengtao Song , Yuexian Zou

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) is a core vision-language segmentation task that enables pixel-level understanding of targets via free-form linguistic expressions, supporting critical applications such as human-robot interaction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yihao Wang , Jusheng Zhang , Ziyi Tang , Keze Wang , Meng Yang

Different from universal object detection, referring expression comprehension (REC) aims to locate specific objects referred to by natural language expressions. The expression provides high-level concepts of relevant visual and contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Wei Su , Peihan Miao , Huanzhang Dou , Yongjian Fu , Xi Li