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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) leverage aligned visual encoders to transform images into visual tokens, allowing them to be processed similarly to text by the backbone large language model (LLM). This unified input paradigm enables VLMs to…

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Referring image segmentation aims to segment specific targets based on a natural text expression. Recently, parameter-efficient tuning (PET) has emerged as a promising paradigm. However, existing PET-based methods often suffer from the fact…

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Accurate segmentation of lesion regions is crucial for clinical diagnosis and treatment across various diseases. While deep convolutional networks have achieved satisfactory results in medical image segmentation, they face challenges such…

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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

Training-free open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVS) aims to segment images given a set of arbitrary textual categories without costly model fine-tuning. Existing solutions often explore attention mechanisms of pre-trained models, such…

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Bridging the semantic gap between image and question is an important step to improve the accuracy of the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task. However, most of the existing VQA methods focus on attention mechanisms or visual relations for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Binh X. Nguyen , Tuong Do , Huy Tran , Erman Tjiputra , Quang D. Tran , Anh Nguyen

Video instance segmentation (VIS) aims to segment and associate all instances of predefined classes for each frame in videos. Prior methods usually obtain segmentation for a frame or clip first, and merge the incomplete results by tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Huaijia Lin , Ruizheng Wu , Shu Liu , Jiangbo Lu , Jiaya Jia

Large-scale pretrained vision backbones have transformed computer vision by providing powerful feature extractors that enable various downstream tasks, including training-free approaches like visual prompting for semantic segmentation.…

Referring image segmentation (RIS) requires dense vision-language interactions between visual pixels and textual words to segment objects based on a given description. However, commonly adapted dual-encoders in RIS, e.g., Swin transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Seonghoon Yu , Ilchae Jung , Byeongju Han , Taeoh Kim , Yunho Kim , Dongyoon Wee , Jeany Son

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment target objects in video sequences based on natural language descriptions. While recent advances in Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have improved RVOS performance through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Li Zhang , Haoxiang Gao , Zhihao Zhang , Luoxiao Huang , Tao Zhang

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment target objects throughout a video based on a text description. This task has attracted increasing attention in the field of computer vision due to its promising applications in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Tianming Liang , Haichao Jiang , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jian-Fang Hu

Referring Audio-Visual Segmentation (Ref-AVS) aims to segment target objects in audible videos based on given reference expressions. Prior works typically rely on learning latent embeddings via multimodal fusion to prompt a tunable SAM/SAM2…

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This paper strives for motion expressions guided video segmentation, which focuses on segmenting objects in video content based on a sentence describing the motion of the objects. Existing referring video object datasets typically focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Henghui Ding , Chang Liu , Shuting He , Xudong Jiang , Chen Change Loy

Rich and dense human labeled datasets are among the main enabling factors for the recent advance on vision-language understanding. Many seemingly distant annotations (e.g., semantic segmentation and visual question answering (VQA)) are…

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Vision transformer (ViT) has recently shown its strong capability in achieving comparable results to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on image classification. However, vanilla ViT simply inherits the same architecture from the natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Chun-Fu Chen , Rameswar Panda , Quanfu Fan

While existing large vision-language multimodal models focus on whole image understanding, there is a prominent gap in achieving region-specific comprehension. Current approaches that use textual coordinates or spatial encodings often fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Mu Cai , Haotian Liu , Dennis Park , Siva Karthik Mustikovela , Gregory P. Meyer , Yuning Chai , Yong Jae Lee

Current semantic segmentation models cannot easily generalize to new object classes unseen during train time: they require additional annotated images and retraining. We propose a novel segmentation model that injects visual priors into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-12 David Golub , Ahmed El-Kishky , Roberto Martín-Martín

Large-scale vision-language models (VLMs), trained on extensive datasets of image-text pairs, exhibit strong multimodal understanding capabilities by implicitly learning associations between textual descriptions and image regions. This…

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Diffusion models represent a new paradigm in text-to-image generation. Beyond generating high-quality images from text prompts, models such as Stable Diffusion have been successfully extended to the joint generation of semantic segmentation…

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Instance segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision with broad applications across various industries. In recent years, with the proliferation of deep learning and artificial intelligence applications, how to train effective…

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