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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

Open-world interactive object search in household environments requires understanding semantic relationships between objects and their surrounding context to guide exploration efficiently. Prior methods either rely on vision-language…

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Zero-shot visual question answering (ZS-VQA), an emerged critical research area, intends to answer visual questions without providing training samples. Existing research in ZS-VQA has proposed to leverage knowledge graphs or large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Qian Tao , Xiaoyang Fan , Yong Xu , Xingquan Zhu , Yufei Tang

In real-world environments, AI systems often face unfamiliar scenarios without labeled data, creating a major challenge for conventional scene understanding models. The inability to generalize across unseen contexts limits the deployment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Manjunath Prasad Holenarasipura Rajiv , B. M. Vidyavathi

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in various open-vocabulary tasks, yet their zero-shot performance lags behind task-specific fine-tuned models, particularly in complex tasks like Referring Expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Amaia Cardiel , Eloi Zablocki , Elias Ramzi , Oriane Siméoni , Matthieu Cord

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) is a core vision-language segmentation task that enables pixel-level understanding of targets via free-form linguistic expressions, supporting critical applications such as human-robot interaction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yihao Wang , Jusheng Zhang , Ziyi Tang , Keze Wang , Meng Yang

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) aims to identify a particular object in a scene by a natural language expression, and is an important topic in visual language understanding. State-of-the-art methods for this task are based on deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Luca Parolari , Elena Izzo , Lamberto Ballan

In Scene Graph Generation (SGG), structured representations are extracted from visual inputs as object nodes and connecting predicates, enabling image-based reasoning for diverse downstream tasks. While fully supervised SGG has improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Abdelrahman Elskhawy , Mengze Li , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam

While recent vision-and-language models (VLMs) like CLIP are a powerful tool for analyzing text and images in a shared semantic space, they do not explicitly model the hierarchical nature of the set of texts which may describe an image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Morris Alper , Hadar Averbuch-Elor

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) is a widely explored multi-modal task, which endeavors to segment the pre-existing object within a single image with a given linguistic expression. However, in broader real-world scenarios, it is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yixuan Wu , Zhao Zhang , Xie Chi , Feng Zhu , Rui Zhao

Visual Semantic Embedding (VSE) models, which map images into a rich semantic embedding space, have been a milestone in object recognition and zero-shot learning. Current approaches to VSE heavily rely on static word em-bedding techniques.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Yue Jiao , Jonathon Hare , Adam Prügel-Bennett

This report presents a solution for the zero-shot referring expression comprehension task. Visual-language multimodal base models (such as CLIP, SAM) have gained significant attention in recent years as a cornerstone of mainstream research.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Longfei Huang , Feng Yu , Zhihao Guan , Zhonghua Wan , Yang Yang

Remote sensing scene classification (RSSC) is a critical task with diverse applications in land use and resource management. While unimodal image-based approaches show promise, they often struggle with limitations such as high intra-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Jinjin Cai , Kexin Meng , Baijian Yang , Gang Shao

Recent approaches have shown that training deep neural networks directly on large-scale image-text pair collections enables zero-shot transfer on various recognition tasks. One central issue is how this can be generalized to object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Johnathan Xie , Shuai Zheng

Effective cross-modal retrieval is essential for applications like information retrieval and recommendation systems, particularly in specialized domains such as manufacturing, where product information often consists of visual samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Francesco Giuliari , Asif Khan Pattan , Mohamed Lamine Mekhalfi , Fabio Poiesi

Referring expression comprehension (REC) involves localizing a target instance based on a textual description. Recent advancements in REC have been driven by large multimodal models (LMMs) like CogVLM, which achieved 92.44% accuracy on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Jierun Chen , Fangyun Wei , Jinjing Zhao , Sizhe Song , Bohuai Wu , Zhuoxuan Peng , S. -H. Gary Chan , Hongyang Zhang

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on vision-language reasoning tasks. However, their potential for zero-shot fine-grained image classification, a challenging task requiring precise differentiation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Md. Atabuzzaman , Andrew Zhang , Chris Thomas

Vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP have been cherished for their ability to perform zero-shot visual recognition on open-vocabulary concepts. This is achieved by selecting the object category whose textual representation bears the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Shaunak Halbe , Junjiao Tian , K J Joseph , James Seale Smith , Katherine Stevo , Vineeth N Balasubramanian , Zsolt Kira

Semantic segmentation is a crucial task in computer vision that involves segmenting images into semantically meaningful regions at the pixel level. However, existing approaches often rely on expensive human annotations as supervision for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Jun Chen , Deyao Zhu , Guocheng Qian , Bernard Ghanem , Zhicheng Yan , Chenchen Zhu , Fanyi Xiao , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Sean Chang Culatana

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) enables the recognition of novel classes by leveraging semantic knowledge transfer from known to unknown categories. This knowledge, typically encapsulated in attribute descriptions, aids in identifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Haojian Huang , Xiaozhen Qiao , Zhuo Chen , Haodong Chen , Bingyu Li , Zhe Sun , Mulin Chen , Xuelong Li