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Partially Relevant Video Retrieval (PRVR) aims to retrieve untrimmed videos based on text queries that describe only partial events. Existing methods suffer from incomplete global contextual perception, struggling with query ambiguity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Jun Li , Xuhang Lou , Jinpeng Wang , Yuting Wang , Yaowei Wang , Shu-Tao Xia , Bin Chen

Existing Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) methods typically require expensive pixel-level or box-level annotations for supervision. In this paper, we observe that the referring texts used in RIS already provide sufficient information to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Fang Liu , Yuhao Liu , Yuqiu Kong , Ke Xu , Lihe Zhang , Baocai Yin , Gerhard Hancke , Rynson Lau

Smartphones with multi-camera systems, featuring cameras with varying field-of-views (FoVs), are increasingly common. This variation in FoVs results in content differences across videos, paving the way for an innovative approach to video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Han Zou , Masanori Suganuma , Takayuki Okatani

Comprehending long videos remains a significant challenge for Large Multi-modal Models (LMMs). Current LMMs struggle to process even minutes to hours videos due to their lack of explicit memory and retrieval mechanisms. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Sameer Malik , Moyuru Yamada , Ayush Singh , Dishank Aggarwal

Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (RRSIS) aims to segment instances in remote sensing images according to referring expressions. Unlike Referring Image Segmentation on general images, acquiring high-quality referring expressions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Kai Ye , Bowen Liu , Jianghang Lin , Jiayi Ji , Pingyang Dai , Liujuan Cao

Text-based video segmentation is a challenging task that segments out the natural language referred objects in videos. It essentially requires semantic comprehension and fine-grained video understanding. Existing methods introduce language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Chen Liang , Yu Wu , Yawei Luo , Yi Yang

Volumetric Reasoning Segmentation (VRS) aims to segment a target region in a 3D medical scan from a free-form clinical query, where the referent is often implicit and requires both medical knowledge and volume-grounded reasoning. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zichun Wang , Hairong Shi , Bingzheng Wei , Yan Xu , Zihua Wang

Referring remote sensing image segmentation (RRSIS) enables the precise delineation of regions within remote sensing imagery through natural language descriptions, serving critical applications in disaster response, urban development, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Zhe Dong , Yuzhe Sun , Tianzhu Liu , Yanfeng Gu

Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) aims to simultaneously classify, segment, and track multiple object instances in videos. Recent clip-level VIS takes a short video clip as input each time showing stronger performance than frame-level VIS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Jialian Wu , Sudhir Yarram , Hui Liang , Tian Lan , Junsong Yuan , Jayan Eledath , Gerard Medioni

Reference Audio-Visual Segmentation (Ref-AVS) aims to segment objects in audible videos based on multimodal cues in reference expressions. Previous methods overlook the explicit recognition of expression difficulty and dominant modality in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yuan Zhao , Zhenqi Jia , Yongqiang Zhang

Scene context is well known to facilitate humans' perception of visible objects. In this paper, we investigate the role of context in Referring Expression Generation (REG) for objects in images, where existing research has often focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Simeon Junker , Sina Zarrieß

Visual relationship understanding has been studied separately in human-object interaction(HOI) detection, scene graph generation(SGG), and referring relationships(RR) tasks. Given the complexity and interconnectedness of these tasks, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Fangrui Zhu , Jianwei Yang , Huaizu Jiang

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

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) aims to localize the image region corresponding to a natural language query. Recent neuro-symbolic REC approaches leverage large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) to perform…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Hyejin Park , Junhyuk Kwon , Suha Kwak , Jungseul Ok

Referring-based Video Object Segmentation is a multimodal problem that requires producing fine-grained segmentation results guided by external cues. Traditional approaches to this task typically involve training specialized models, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Tuyen Tran , Thao Minh Le , Truyen Tran

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment the target object in a video sequence described by a language expression. Typical multimodal Transformer based RVOS approaches process video sequence in a frame-independent manner…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Meng Lan , Fu Rong , Zuchao Li , Wei Yu , Lefei Zhang

This paper focuses on a referring expression generation (REG) task in which the aim is to pick out an object in a complex visual scene. One common theoretical approach to this problem is to model the task as a two-agent cooperative scheme…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Hieu Le , Taufiq Daryanto , Fabian Zhafransyah , Derry Wijaya , Elizabeth Coppock , Sang Chin

Event-based image retrieval from free-form captions presents a significant challenge: models must understand not only visual features but also latent event semantics, context, and real-world knowledge. Conventional vision-language retrieval…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Dinh-Khoi Vo , Van-Loc Nguyen , Minh-Triet Tran , Trung-Nghia Le

Image segmentation from referring expressions is a joint vision and language modeling task, where the input is an image and a textual expression describing a particular region in the image; and the goal is to localize and segment the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Ronghang Hu , Marcus Rohrbach , Subhashini Venugopalan , Trevor Darrell

In this work, we address the challenging task of referring segmentation. The query expression in referring segmentation typically indicates the target object by describing its relationship with others. Therefore, to find the target one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Henghui Ding , Chang Liu , Suchen Wang , Xudong Jiang