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Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment out the object in a video referred by an expression. Current RVOS methods view referring expressions as unstructured sequences, neglecting their crucial semantic structure essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Huihui Xu , Jiashi Lin , Haoyu Chen , Junjun He , Lei Zhu

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) aims to segment image regions described by natural-language expressions, serving as a bridge between vision and language understanding. Existing RES methods, however, rely heavily on large annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Weiming Zhang , Dingwen Xiao , Songyue Guo , Guangyu Xiang , Shiqi Wen , Minwei Zhao , Lei Chen , Lin Wang

Referring expression counting (REC) is an intention-driven task that requires context-aware visual reasoning. While recent vision-language models incorporate language for visual understanding, most existing REC methods rely on rulebased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hui Liu , Yunlai Teng , Kunlong Bai , Pengfei Qi , Haotian Yan , Liang Li , Junlan Feng

Building upon the standard graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), the introduction of heterogeneous graphs and hypergraphs aims to enrich retrieval and generation by leveraging the relationships between multiple entities through…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Xuecheng Zou , Ke Liu , Bingbing Wang , Huafei Deng , Li Zhang , Yu Tang

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) - the problem of identifying objects in images through natural language sentences - is a challenging task currently mostly solved through supervised learning. However, while collecting referred annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Francisco Eiras , Kemal Oksuz , Adel Bibi , Philip H. S. Torr , Puneet K. Dokania

Referring image segmentation aims to segment the objects referred by a natural language expression. Previous methods usually focus on designing an implicit and recurrent feature interaction mechanism to fuse the visual-linguistic features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Ya Jing , Tao Kong , Wei Wang , Liang Wang , Lei Li , Tieniu Tan

Referring image segmentation aims to produce a pixel-level mask for the image region described by a natural-language expression. Although pretrained vision-language models have improved semantic grounding, many existing methods still rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Alaa Dalaq , Muzammil Behzad

The scale and quality of datasets are crucial for training robust perception models. However, obtaining large-scale annotated data is both costly and time-consuming. Generative models have emerged as a powerful tool for data augmentation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Haowei Zhu , Tianxiang Pan , Rui Qin , Jun-Hai Yong , Bin Wang

Referring image segmentation is a challenging task that involves generating pixel-wise segmentation masks based on natural language descriptions. The complexity of this task increases with the intricacy of the sentences provided. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Hai Nguyen-Truong , E-Ro Nguyen , Tuan-Anh Vu , Minh-Triet Tran , Binh-Son Hua , Sai-Kit Yeung

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

We investigate the problem of video Referring Expression Comprehension (REC), which aims to localize the referent objects described in the sentence to visual regions in the video frames. Despite the recent progress, existing methods suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Meng Cao , Ji Jiang , Long Chen , Yuexian Zou

Intelligent robots designed to interact with humans in real scenarios need to be able to refer to entities actively by natural language. In spatial referring expression generation, the ambiguity is unavoidable due to the diversity of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Mingjiang Liu , Chengli Xiao , Chunlin Chen

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

We propose InstructDET, a data-centric method for referring object detection (ROD) that localizes target objects based on user instructions. While deriving from referring expressions (REC), the instructions we leverage are greatly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Ronghao Dang , Jiangyan Feng , Haodong Zhang , Chongjian Ge , Lin Song , Lijun Gong , Chengju Liu , Qijun Chen , Feng Zhu , Rui Zhao , Yibing Song

This paper proposes a novel framework utilizing multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) for referring video object segmentation (RefVOS). Previous MLLM-based methods commonly struggle with the dilemma between "Ref" and "VOS": they either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Lang Lin , Xueyang Yu , Ziqi Pang , Yu-Xiong Wang

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

Zero-shot referring image segmentation is a challenging task because it aims to find an instance segmentation mask based on the given referring descriptions, without training on this type of paired data. Current zero-shot methods mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Minheng Ni , Yabo Zhang , Kailai Feng , Xiaoming Li , Yiwen Guo , Wangmeng Zuo

REPA and its variants effectively mitigate training challenges in diffusion models by incorporating external visual representations from pretrained models, through alignment between the noisy hidden projections of denoising networks and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ge Wu , Shen Zhang , Ruijing Shi , Shanghua Gao , Zhenyuan Chen , Lei Wang , Zhaowei Chen , Hongcheng Gao , Yao Tang , Jian Yang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Xiang Li

Referring expression counting (REC) algorithms are for more flexible and interactive counting ability across varied fine-grained text expressions. However, the requirement for fine-grained attribute understanding poses challenges for prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zhicheng Wang , Zhiyu Pan , Zhan Peng , Jian Cheng , Liwen Xiao , Wei Jiang , Zhiguo Cao

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