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Referring Video Object Segmentation (RefVOS) seeks to segment target objects in videos guided by natural language descriptions, demanding both temporal reasoning and fine-grained visual comprehension. Existing sampling strategies for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Ming Dai , Sen Yang , Boqiang Duan , Wankou Yang , Jingdong Wang

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

Recent efforts in video reasoning segmentation (VRS) integrate large language models (LLMs) with perception models to localize and track objects via textual instructions, achieving barely satisfactory results in simple scenarios. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Rongkun Zheng , Lu Qi , Xi Chen , Yi Wang , Kun Wang , Yu Qiao , Hengshuang Zhao

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly being regarded as foundation models that can be instructed to solve diverse tasks by prompting, without task-specific training. We examine the seemingly obvious question: how to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Niccolo Avogaro , Thomas Frick , Mattia Rigotti , Andrea Bartezzaghi , Filip Janicki , Cristiano Malossi , Konrad Schindler , Roy Assaf

Segmentation based on language has been a popular topic in computer vision. While recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have endowed segmentation systems with reasoning capabilities, these efforts remain confined by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Tianming Liang , Qirui Du , Jian-Fang Hu , Haichao Jiang , Zicheng Lin , Wei-Shi Zheng

Joint video-language learning has received increasing attention in recent years. However, existing works mainly focus on single or multiple trimmed video clips (events), which makes human-annotated event boundaries necessary during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Teng Wang , Jinrui Zhang , Feng Zheng , Wenhao Jiang , Ran Cheng , Ping Luo

Multi-modal language models (LM) have recently shown promising performance in high-level reasoning tasks on videos. However, existing methods still fall short in tasks like causal or compositional spatiotemporal reasoning over actions, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Apratim Bhattacharyya , Sunny Panchal , Mingu Lee , Reza Pourreza , Pulkit Madan , Roland Memisevic

Temporal Video Grounding (TVG), which requires pinpointing relevant temporal segments from video based on language query, has always been a highly challenging task in the field of video understanding. Videos often have a larger volume of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Feng Yue , Zhaoxing Zhang , Junming Jiao , Zhengyu Liang , Shiwen Cao , Feifei Zhang , Rong Shen

We present SimpleSeg, a strikingly simple yet highly effective approach to endow Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) with native pixel-level perception. Our method reframes segmentation as a simple sequence generation problem: the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Tianhui Song , Haoyu Lu , Hao Yang , Lin Sui , Haoning Wu , Zaida Zhou , Zhiqi Huang , Yiping Bao , Y. Charles , Xinyu Zhou , Limin Wang

Grounding large language models (LLMs) in domain-specific tasks like post-hoc dash-cam driving video analysis is challenging due to their general-purpose training and lack of structured inductive biases. As vision is often the sole modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Manyi Yao , Bingbing Zhuang , Sparsh Garg , Amit Roy-Chowdhury , Christian Shelton , Manmohan Chandraker , Abhishek Aich

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment an object of interest throughout a video based on a language description. The prominent challenge lies in aligning static text with dynamic visual content, particularly when objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Bingrui Zhao , Lin Yuanbo Wu , Xiangtian Fan , Deyin Liu , Lu Zhang , Ruyi He , Jialie Shen , Ximing Li

Language-guided segmentation transcends the scope limitations of traditional semantic segmentation, enabling models to segment arbitrary target regions based on natural language instructions. Existing approaches typically adopt a two-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Chao Hao , Jun Xu , Ji Du , Shuo Ye , Ziyue Qiao , Xiaodong Cun , Guangcong Wang , Xubin Zheng , Zitong Yu

Temporal Sentence Grounding (TSG), which aims to localize moments from videos based on the given natural language queries, has attracted widespread attention. Existing works are mainly designed for short videos, failing to handle TSG in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Houlun Chen , Xin Wang , Hong Chen , Zihan Song , Jia Jia , Wenwu Zhu

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across a wide range of vision-language tasks. However, due to the restricted input resolutions, MLLMs face significant challenges in precisely understanding and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Lu Zhang , Jiazuo Yu , Haomiao Xiong , Ping Hu , Yunzhi Zhuge , Huchuan Lu , You He

Reasoning segmentation enables open-set object segmentation via implicit text queries, therefore serving as a foundation for embodied agents that should operate autonomously in real-world environments. However, existing methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yiqing Shen , Mathias Unberath

The current success of modern visual reasoning systems is arguably attributed to cross-modality attention mechanisms. However, in deliberative reasoning such as in VQA, attention is unconstrained at each step, and thus may serve as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Thao Minh Le , Vuong Le , Sunil Gupta , Svetha Venkatesh , Truyen Tran

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment target objects in videos based on natural language descriptions. However, fixed keyframe-based approaches that couple a vision language model with a separate propagation module…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jihwan Hong , Jaeyoung Do

Reasoning segmentation aims to segment target objects in complex scenes based on human intent and spatial reasoning. While recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive 2D image reasoning segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jiaxin Huang , Runnan Chen , Ziwen Li , Zhengqing Gao , Xiao He , Yandong Guo , Mingming Gong , Tongliang Liu

Spatial Reasoning is an important component of human cognition and is an area in which the latest Vision-language models (VLMs) show signs of difficulty. The current analysis works use image captioning tasks and visual question answering.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Akshar Tumu , Parisa Kordjamshidi

Existing vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in reasoning-based segmentation. However, current benchmarks are primarily constructed from high-quality images captured under idealized conditions. This raises…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Wanjun Du , Zifeng Yuan , Tingting Chen , Fucai Ke , Beibei Lin , Shunli Zhang