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Referring image segmentation (RIS) is a fundamental vision-language task that intends to segment a desired object from an image based on a given natural language expression. Due to the essentially distinct data properties between image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Wenxuan Wang , Jing Liu , Xingjian He , Yisi Zhang , Chen Chen , Jiachen Shen , Yan Zhang , Jiangyun Li

We consider referring image segmentation. It is a problem at the intersection of computer vision and natural language understanding. Given an input image and a referring expression in the form of a natural language sentence, the goal is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Linwei Ye , Zhi Liu , Yang Wang

Referring segmentation aims to generate a segmentation mask for the target instance indicated by a natural language expression. There are typically two kinds of existing methods: one-stage methods that directly perform segmentation on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Chang Liu , Xudong Jiang , Henghui Ding

In this paper we are interested in the problem of image segmentation given natural language descriptions, i.e. referring expressions. Existing works tackle this problem by first modeling images and sentences independently and then segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Chenxi Liu , Zhe Lin , Xiaohui Shen , Jimei Yang , Xin Lu , Alan Yuille

In this work, we address the challenging task of referring segmentation. The query expression in referring segmentation typically indicates the target object by describing its relationship with others. Therefore, to find the target one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Henghui Ding , Chang Liu , Suchen Wang , Xudong Jiang

Most state-of-the-art semi-supervised video object segmentation methods rely on a pixel-accurate mask of a target object provided for the first frame of a video. However, obtaining a detailed segmentation mask is expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Anna Khoreva , Anna Rohrbach , Bernt Schiele

Segmentation Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have significantly advanced grounded visual understanding, yet they remain prone to pixel-grounding hallucinations, producing masks for incorrect objects or for objects that are entirely absent.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Xinzhuo Li , Adheesh Juvekar , Jiaxun Zhang , Xingyou Liu , Muntasir Wahed , Kiet A. Nguyen , Yifan Shen , Tianjiao Yu , Ismini Lourentzou

Specular reflections pose a significant challenge for object segmentation, as their sharp intensity transitions often mislead both conventional algorithms and deep learning based methods. However, as the specular reflection must lie on the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Katja Kossira , Yunxuan Zhu , Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision, aimed at partitioning an image into semantically meaningful regions. Referring image segmentation extends this task by using natural language expressions to localize specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Alaa Dalaq , Muzammil Behzad

Referring image segmentation aims to segment an object referred to by natural language expression from an image. The primary challenge lies in the efficient propagation of fine-grained semantic information from textual features to visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Yichen Yan , Xingjian He , Sihan Chen , Jing Liu

The performance of existing supervised neuron segmentation methods is highly dependent on the number of accurate annotations, especially when applied to large scale electron microscopy (EM) data. By extracting semantic information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Yinda Chen , Wei Huang , Shenglong Zhou , Qi Chen , Zhiwei Xiong

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential across various domains, particularly in concept reasoning. However, their applications in understanding 3D environments remain limited,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Kuan-Chih Huang , Xiangtai Li , Lu Qi , Shuicheng Yan , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) is an emerging task in computer vision, which segments the target instances in images based on text descriptions. However, its development is plagued by the expensive segmentation labels. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Minglang Huang , Yiyi Zhou , Gen Luo , Guannan Jiang , Weilin Zhuang , Xiaoshuai Sun

Annotating lots of 3D medical images for training segmentation models is time-consuming. The goal of weakly supervised semantic segmentation is to train segmentation models without using any ground truth segmentation masks. Our work…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-23 Marius Schmidt-Mengin , Alexis Benichoux , Shibeshih Belachew , Nikos Komodakis , Nikos Paragios

The referring video object segmentation task (RVOS) aims to segment object instances in a given video referred by a language expression in all video frames. Due to the requirement of understanding cross-modal semantics within individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Leilei Cao , Zhuang Li , Bo Yan , Feng Zhang , Fengliang Qi , Yuchen Hu , Hongbin Wang

Referring image segmentation aims to segment the image region of interest according to the given language expression, which is a typical multi-modal task. Existing methods either adopt the pixel classification-based or the learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Zhichao Wei , Xiaohao Chen , Mingqiang Chen , Siyu Zhu

Open-vocabulary instance segmentation aims at segmenting novel classes without mask annotations. It is an important step toward reducing laborious human supervision. Most existing works first pretrain a model on captioned images covering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Dat Huynh , Jason Kuen , Zhe Lin , Jiuxiang Gu , Ehsan Elhamifar

Text-prompted image segmentation enables fine-grained visual understanding and is critical for applications such as human-computer interaction and robotics. However, existing supervised fine-tuning methods typically ignore explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Lianghui Zhu , Bin Ouyang , Yuxuan Zhang , Tianheng Cheng , Rui Hu , Haocheng Shen , Longjin Ran , Xiaoxin Chen , Li Yu , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Recent image segmentation models have advanced to segment images into high-quality masks for visual entities, and yet they cannot provide comprehensive semantic understanding for complex queries based on both language and vision. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Shengcao Cao , Zijun Wei , Jason Kuen , Kangning Liu , Lingzhi Zhang , Jiuxiang Gu , HyunJoon Jung , Liang-Yan Gui , Yu-Xiong Wang

Recent works in self-supervised learning have demonstrated strong performance on scene-level dense prediction tasks by pretraining with object-centric or region-based correspondence objectives. In this paper, we present Region-to-Object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Akash Gokul , Konstantinos Kallidromitis , Shufan Li , Yusuke Kato , Kazuki Kozuka , Trevor Darrell , Colorado J Reed