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The key of referring expression comprehension lies in capturing the cross-modal visual-linguistic relevance. Existing works typically model the cross-modal relevance in each image, where the anchor object/expression and their positive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Fuhai Chen , Xuri Ge , Xiaoshuai Sun , Yue Gao , Jianzhuang Liu , Fufeng Chen , Wenjie Li

We consider generation and comprehension of natural language referring expression for objects in an image. Unlike generic "image captioning" which lacks natural standard evaluation criteria, quality of a referring expression may be measured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Ruotian Luo , Gregory Shakhnarovich

The task of video object segmentation with referring expressions (language-guided VOS) is to, given a linguistic phrase and a video, generate binary masks for the object to which the phrase refers. Our work argues that existing benchmarks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Miriam Bellver , Carles Ventura , Carina Silberer , Ioannis Kazakos , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

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

As an important step towards visual reasoning, visual grounding (e.g., phrase localization, referring expression comprehension/segmentation) has been widely explored Previous approaches to referring expression comprehension (REC) or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Muchen Li , Leonid Sigal

Recently, a human evaluation study of Referring Expression Generation (REG) models had an unexpected conclusion: on \textsc{webnlg}, Referring Expressions (REs) generated by the state-of-the-art neural models were not only indistinguishable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Guanyi Chen , Fahime Same , Kees van Deemter

Humans are undoubtedly the most important participants in computer vision, and the ability to detect any individual given a natural language description, a task we define as referring to any person, holds substantial practical value.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Qing Jiang , Lin Wu , Zhaoyang Zeng , Tianhe Ren , Yuda Xiong , Yihao Chen , Qin Liu , Lei Zhang

This paper presents INGRESS, a robot system that follows human natural language instructions to pick and place everyday objects. The core issue here is the grounding of referring expressions: infer objects and their relationships from input…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Mohit Shridhar , David Hsu

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) links language to region level visual perception. Standard benchmarks (RefCOCO, RefCOCO+, RefCOCOg) have progressed rapidly with multimodal LLMs but remain weak tests of visual reasoning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Qihua Dong , Kuo Yang , Lin Ju , Handong Zhao , Yitian Zhang , Yizhou Wang , Huimin Zeng , Jianglin Lu , Yun Fu

Traditionally, Referring Expression Generation (REG) models first decide on the form and then on the content of references to discourse entities in text, typically relying on features such as salience and grammatical function. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Thiago Castro Ferreira , Diego Moussallem , Ákos Kádár , Sander Wubben , Emiel Krahmer

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

Humans refer to objects in their environments all the time, especially in dialogue with other people. We explore generating and comprehending natural language referring expressions for objects in images. In particular, we focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Licheng Yu , Patrick Poirson , Shan Yang , Alexander C. Berg , Tamara L. Berg

Reference Expression Segmentation (RES) aims to segment image regions specified by referring expressions and has become popular with the rise of multimodal large models (MLLMs). While MLLMs excel in semantic understanding, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Jingchao Wang , Zhijian Wu , Dingjiang Huang , Yefeng Zheng , Hong Wang

Referring Expression Generation (REG) is a core task for evaluating the pragmatic competence of vision-language systems, requiring not only accurate semantic grounding but also adherence to principles of cooperative communication (Grice,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Ziqiao Ma , Jing Ding , Xuejun Zhang , Dezhi Luo , Jiahe Ding , Sihan Xu , Yuchen Huang , Run Peng , Joyce Chai

Referring expressions are natural language constructions used to identify particular objects within a scene. In this paper, we propose a unified framework for the tasks of referring expression comprehension and generation. Our model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Licheng Yu , Hao Tan , Mohit Bansal , Tamara L. Berg

Referring expressions are natural language descriptions that identify a particular object within a scene and are widely used in our daily conversations. In this work, we focus on segmenting the object in an image specified by a referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Yi-Wen Chen , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Tiantian Wang , Yen-Yu Lin , Ming-Hsuan Yang

In this work, we address the challenging task of Generalized Referring Expression Comprehension (GREC). Compared to the classic Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) that focuses on single-target expressions, GREC extends the scope to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yaxian Wang , Henghui Ding , Shuting He , Xudong Jiang , Bifan Wei , Jun Liu

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

Conventional referring expression comprehension (REF) assumes people to query something from an image by describing its visual appearance and spatial location, but in practice, we often ask for an object by describing its affordance or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Peng Wang , Dongyang Liu , Hui Li , Qi Wu

Referring expression comprehension (REC) aims at achieving object localization based on natural language descriptions. However, existing REC approaches are constrained by object category descriptions and single-attribute intention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Hao Guo , Jianfei Zhu , Wei Fan , Chunzhi Yi , Feng Jiang