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Referring expression comprehension (REC) is a vision-language task to locate a target object in an image based on a language expression. Fully fine-tuning general-purpose pre-trained vision-language foundation models for REC yields…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Xuyang Liu , Ting Liu , Siteng Huang , Yi Xin , Yue Hu , Quanjun Yin , Donglin Wang , Yuanyuan Wu , Honggang Chen

Object referring has important applications, especially for human-machine interaction. While having received great attention, the task is mainly attacked with written language (text) as input rather than spoken language (speech), which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Arun Balajee Vasudevan , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

For robots to understand human instructions and perform meaningful tasks in the near future, it is important to develop learned models that comprehend referential language to identify common objects in real-world 3D scenes. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Junha Roh , Karthik Desingh , Ali Farhadi , Dieter Fox

Grounding a pronoun to a visual object it refers to requires complex reasoning from various information sources, especially in conversational scenarios. For example, when people in a conversation talk about something all speakers can see,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xintong Yu , Hongming Zhang , Yangqiu Song , Yan Song , Changshui Zhang

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

Weakly supervised referring expression grounding (REG) aims at localizing the referential entity in an image according to linguistic query, where the mapping between the image region (proposal) and the query is unknown in the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Xuejing Liu , Liang Li , Shuhui Wang , Zheng-Jun Zha , Li Su , Qingming Huang

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) has attracted rising attention, aiming to identify and segment objects based on natural language expressions. While substantial progress has been made in RES, the emergence of Generalized Referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Weize Li , Zhicheng Zhao , Haochen Bai , Fei Su

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) aims to segment a target object described by a natural language expression. Existing methods have evolved by leveraging the vision information into the language tokens. To more effectively exploit visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yubin Cho , Hyunwoo Yu , Kyeongbo Kong , Kyomin Sohn , Bongjoon Hyun , Suk-Ju Kang

We address the problem of weakly supervised object localization where only image-level annotations are available for training object detectors. Numerous methods have been proposed to tackle this problem through mining object proposals.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Dong Li , Jia-Bin Huang , Yali Li , Shengjin Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Given a natural language expression and an image/video, the goal of referring segmentation is to produce the pixel-level masks of the entities described by the subject of the expression. Previous approaches tackle this problem by implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Si Liu , Tianrui Hui , Shaofei Huang , Yunchao Wei , Bo Li , Guanbin Li

Referring Camouflaged Object Detection (Ref-COD) segments specified camouflaged objects in a scene by leveraging a small set of referring images. Though effective, current systems adopt a dual-branch design that requires reference images at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yu-Huan Wu , Zi-Xuan Zhu , Yan Wang , Liangli Zhen , Deng-Ping Fan

Referring multi-object tracking (RMOT) is an emerging cross-modal task that aims to locate an arbitrary number of target objects and maintain their identities referred by a language expression in a video. This intricate task involves the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Changcheng Xiao , Qiong Cao , Yujie Zhong , Xiang Zhang , Tao Wang , Canqun Yang , Long Lan

The language-guided robot grasping task requires a robot agent to integrate multimodal information from both visual and linguistic inputs to predict actions for target-driven grasping. While recent approaches utilizing Multimodal Large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Houjian Yu , Mingen Li , Alireza Rezazadeh , Yang Yang , Changhyun Choi

The small objects in images and videos are usually not independent individuals. Instead, they more or less present some semantic and spatial layout relationships with each other. Modeling and inferring such intrinsic relationships can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Kui Fu , Jia Li , Lin Ma , Kai Mu , Yonghong Tian

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) aims at segmenting the target object from an image referred by one given natural language expression. The diverse and flexible expressions as well as complex visual contents in the images raise the RIS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Yang Jiao , Zequn Jie , Weixin Luo , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang , Xiaolin Wei , Lin Ma

Referring object removal refers to removing the specific object in an image referred by natural language expressions and filling the missing region with reasonable semantics. To address this task, we construct the ComCOCO, a synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Xiangtian Xue , Jiasong Wu , Youyong Kong , Lotfi Senhadji , Huazhong Shu

Retrieving fine-grained visual content based on user intent remains a challenge in multi-modal systems. Although current Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) methods combine reference images with retrieval texts, they are constrained to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Tong Wang , Guanyu Yang , Nian Liu , Zongyan Han , Jinxing Zhou , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Reference resolution, which aims to identify entities being referred to by a speaker, is more complex in real world settings: new referents may be created by processes the agents engage in and/or be salient only because they belong to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Abhinav Kumar , Barbara Di Eugenio , Abari Bhattacharya , Jillian Aurisano , Andrew Johnson

Current 3D visual grounding tasks only process sentence level detection or segmentation, which critically fails to leverage the rich compositional contextual reasonings within natural language expressions. To address this challenge, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Qi Chen , Changli Wu , Jiayi Ji , Yiwei Ma , Liujuan Cao

Deep neural networks have emerged as a powerful technique for learning representations from user-item interaction data in collaborative filtering (CF) for recommender systems. However, many existing methods heavily rely on unique user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xubin Ren , Chao Huang