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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

Visual reasoning may require models to interpret images and videos and respond to implicit text queries across diverse output formats, from pixel-level segmentation masks to natural language descriptions. Existing approaches rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yiqing Shen , Mathias Unberath

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

Currently, utilizing large language models to understand the 3D world is becoming popular. Yet existing 3D-aware LLMs act as black boxes: they output bounding boxes or textual answers without revealing how those decisions are made, and they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Zhihao Yuan , Shuyi Jiang , Chun-Mei Feng , Yaolun Zhang , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li , Na Zhao

Recent large vision-language models have achieved strong performance on short- and medium-length video understanding, yet they remain inadequate for ultra-long or even infinite video reasoning, where models must preserve coherent memory…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Peizheng Yan , Yu Zhao , Liang Xie , Juntong Qi , Mingming Wang , Erwei Yin

With recent video object segmentation (VOS) benchmarks evolving to challenging scenarios, we revisit a simple but overlooked strategy: restricting the size of memory banks. This diverges from the prevalent practice of expanding memory banks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Junbao Zhou , Ziqi Pang , Yu-Xiong Wang

Video understanding is fundamental to tasks such as action recognition, video reasoning, and robotic control. Early video understanding methods based on large vision-language models (LVLMs) typically adopt a single-pass reasoning paradigm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yiyang Zhou , Yangfan He , Yaofeng Su , Siwei Han , Joel Jang , Gedas Bertasius , Mohit Bansal , Huaxiu Yao

Long-form video understanding, characterized by long-range temporal dependencies and multiple events, remains a challenge. Existing methods often rely on static reasoning or external visual-language models (VLMs), which face issues like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yuan Xie , Tianshui Chen , Zheng Ge , Lionel Ni

Video segmentation aims at partitioning video sequences into meaningful segments based on objects or regions of interest within frames. Current video segmentation models are often derived from image segmentation techniques, which struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Chen Liang , Qiang Guo , Xiaochao Qu , Luoqi Liu , Ting Liu

This paper addresses the critical and underexplored challenge of long video understanding with low computational budgets. We propose LongVideo-R1, an active, reasoning-equipped multimodal large language model (MLLM) agent designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jihao Qiu , Lingxi Xie , Xinyue Huo , Qi Tian , Qixiang Ye

The recent development in multimodal learning has greatly advanced the research in 3D scene understanding in various real-world tasks such as embodied AI. However, most existing studies are facing two common challenges: 1) they are short of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Xueying Jiang , Lewei Lu , Ling Shao , Shijian Lu

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

Reasoning video object segmentation predicts pixel-level masks in videos from natural-language queries that may involve implicit and temporally grounded references. However, existing methods are developed and evaluated in an offline regime,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jinyuan Liu , Yang Wang , Zeyu Zhao , Weixin Li , Song Wang , Ruize Han

Image segmentation needs both local boundary position information and global object context information. The performance of the recent state-of-the-art method, fully convolutional networks, reaches a bottleneck due to the neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Zhenxin Wang , Sayan Sarcar , Jingxin Liu , Yilin Zheng , Xiangshi Ren

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

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

Video retrieval is a challenging research topic bridging the vision and language areas and has attracted broad attention in recent years. Previous works have been devoted to representing videos by directly encoding from frame-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Zerun Feng , Zhimin Zeng , Caili Guo , Zheng Li

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) integrates external knowledge with Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance factual correctness and mitigate hallucination. However, dense retrievers often become the bottleneck of RAG systems due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Yuan Li , Qi Luo , Xiaonan Li , Bufan Li , Qinyuan Cheng , Bo Wang , Yining Zheng , Yuxin Wang , Zhangyue Yin , Xipeng Qiu

We study fine-grained referring image segmentation via a decoupled reason-then-segment pipeline. A vision-language model (VLM) receives an image and a natural-language query, reasons about the scene, and emits structured spatial prompts: a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Sandesh Hegde , Jaison Saji Chacko , Debarshi Banerjee , Uma Mahesh

The task of video grounding, which temporally localizes a natural language description in a video, plays an important role in understanding videos. Existing studies have adopted strategies of sliding window over the entire video or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Dongliang He , Xiang Zhao , Jizhou Huang , Fu Li , Xiao Liu , Shilei Wen