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We study fine-grained referring image segmentation via a decoupled reason-then-segment pipeline. A vision-language model (VLM) receives an image and a natural-language query, reasons about the scene, and emits structured spatial prompts: a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Sandesh Hegde , Jaison Saji Chacko , Debarshi Banerjee , Uma Mahesh

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

3D Referring Expression Segmentation (3D-RES) is dedicated to segmenting a specific instance within a 3D space based on a natural language description. However, current approaches are limited to segmenting a single target, restricting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Changli Wu , Yihang Liu , Jiayi Ji , Yiwei Ma , Haowei Wang , Gen Luo , Henghui Ding , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

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

Segment Anything Model (SAM), a prompt-driven foundation model for natural image segmentation, has demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance. However, SAM does not work when directly applied to medical image segmentation, since SAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Bin Xie , Hao Tang , Bin Duan , Dawen Cai , Yan Yan , Gady Agam

Leveraging the extensive training data from SA-1B, the Segment Anything Model (SAM) demonstrates remarkable generalization and zero-shot capabilities. However, as a category-agnostic instance segmentation method, SAM heavily relies on prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Keyan Chen , Chenyang Liu , Hao Chen , Haotian Zhang , Wenyuan Li , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

Reasoning Video Object Segmentation (ReasonVOS) is a challenging task that requires stable object segmentation across video sequences using implicit and complex textual inputs. Previous methods fine-tune Multimodal Large Language Models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhengtong Zhu , Jiaqing Fan , Zhixuan Liu , Fanzhang Li

Generalized Referring Expression Segmentation (GRES) extends the scope of classic RES to refer to multiple objects in one expression or identify the empty targets absent in the image. GRES poses challenges in modeling the complex spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Zhuofan Xia , Dongchen Han , Yizeng Han , Xuran Pan , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

Existing face parsing methods usually misclassify occlusions as facial components. This is because occlusion is a high-level concept, it does not refer to a concrete category of object. Thus, constructing a real-world face dataset covering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Lingsong Wang , Mancheng Meng , Ziyan Wu , Terrence Chen , Fan Yang , Dinggang Shen

The primary challenge of cross-domain few-shot segmentation (CD-FSS) is the domain disparity between the training and inference phases, which can exist in either the input data or the target classes. Previous models struggle to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Shi-Feng Peng , Guolei Sun , Yong Li , Hongsong Wang , Guo-Sen Xie

In this paper, we study a challenging task of zero-shot referring image segmentation. This task aims to identify the instance mask that is most related to a referring expression without training on pixel-level annotations. Previous research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Yucheng Suo , Linchao Zhu , Yi Yang

One-shot medical image segmentation (MIS) is crucial for medical analysis due to the burden of medical experts on manual annotation. The recent emergence of the segment anything model (SAM) has demonstrated remarkable adaptation in MIS but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-30 Jia Wang , Yunan Mei , Jiarui Liu , Xin Fan

This report presents our winning solution to the 5th PVUW MeViS-Text Challenge. The track studies referring video object segmentation under motion-centric language expressions, where the model must jointly understand appearance, temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xusheng He , Canyang Wu , Jinrong Zhang , Weili Guan , Jianlong Wu , Liqiang Nie

In semantic segmentation, accurate prediction masks are crucial for downstream tasks such as medical image analysis and image editing. Due to the lack of annotated data, few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) performs poorly in predicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Chen-Bin Feng , Qi Lai , Kangdao Liu , Houcheng Su , Chi-Man Vong

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

In light of the diminishing returns of traditional methods for enhancing transmission rates, the domain of semantic communication presents promising new frontiers. Focusing on image transmission, this paper explores the application of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Shehbaz Tariq , Brian Estadimas Arfeto , Chaoning Zhang , Hyundong Shin

Although the Segment Anything Model (SAM) is highly effective in natural image segmentation, it requires dependencies on prompts, which limits its applicability to medical imaging where manual prompts are often unavailable. Existing efforts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Mengmeng Zhang , Xingyuan Dai , Yicheng Sun , Jing Wang , Yueyang Yao , Xiaoyan Gong , Fuze Cong , Feiyue Wang , Yisheng Lv

3D referring segmentation is an emerging and challenging vision-language task that aims to segment the object described by a natural language expression in a point cloud scene. The key challenge behind this task is vision-language feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Shuting He , Henghui Ding

In-context segmentation (ICS) aims to segment arbitrary concepts, e.g., objects, parts, or personalized instances, given one annotated visual examples. Existing work relies on (i) fine-tuning vision foundation models (VFMs), which improves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Claudia Cuttano , Gabriele Trivigno , Christoph Reich , Daniel Cremers , Carlo Masone , Stefan Roth

Reasoning segmentation is an emerging vision-language task that requires reasoning over intricate text queries to precisely segment objects. However, existing methods typically suffer from overthinking, generating verbose reasoning chains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yulin He , Wei Chen , Zhikang Jian , Tianhang Guo , Wenjuan Zhou , Minglong Li , Shaowu Yang , Wenjing Yang