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Referring 3D Segmentation is a visual-language task that segments all points of the specified object from a 3D point cloud described by a sentence of query. Previous works perform a two-stage paradigm, first conducting language-agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Xuexun Liu , Xiaoxu Xu , Jinlong Li , Qiudan Zhang , Xu Wang , Nicu Sebe , Lin Ma

The task of video object segmentation with referring expressions (language-guided VOS) is to, given a linguistic phrase and a video, generate binary masks for the object to which the phrase refers. Our work argues that existing benchmarks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Miriam Bellver , Carles Ventura , Carina Silberer , Ioannis Kazakos , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

This paper aims to address universal segmentation for image and video perception with the strong reasoning ability empowered by Visual Large Language Models (VLLMs). Despite significant progress in current unified segmentation methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Cong Wei , Yujie Zhong , Haoxian Tan , Yong Liu , Zheng Zhao , Jie Hu , Yujiu Yang

In this paper, we consider the problem of open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVS), which aims to segment objects of arbitrary classes instead of pre-defined, closed-set categories. The main contributions are as follows: First, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Jilan Xu , Junlin Hou , Yuejie Zhang , Rui Feng , Yi Wang , Yu Qiao , Weidi Xie

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

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) aims to generate a segmentation mask for the object described by a given language expression. Existing classic RES datasets and methods commonly support single-target expressions only, i.e., one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Chang Liu , Henghui Ding , Xudong Jiang

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is a vision-language task that localizes a specific image region based on a textual description. Existing REC benchmarks primarily evaluate perceptual capabilities and lack interpretable scoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Tianyi Gao , Hao Li , Han Fang , Xin Wei , Xiaodong Dong , Hongbo Sun , Ye Yuan , Zhongjiang He , Jinglin Xu , Jingmin Xin , Hao Sun

Token Communication (TokenCom) is a new paradigm, motivated by the recent success of Large AI Models (LAMs) and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), where tokens serve as unified units of communication and computation, enabling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jingxuan Men , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Ning Wang , Yi Ma , Mike Nilsson , Rahim Tafazolli

Referring image segmentation segments an image from a language expression. With the aim of producing high-quality masks, existing methods often adopt iterative learning approaches that rely on RNNs or stacked attention layers to refine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Zhao Yang , Jiaqi Wang , Yansong Tang , Kai Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip H. S. Torr

We present LlamaSeg, a visual autoregressive framework that unifies multiple image segmentation tasks via natural language instructions. We reformulate image segmentation as a visual generation problem, representing masks as "visual" tokens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jiru Deng , Tengjin Weng , Tianyu Yang , Wenhan Luo , Zhiheng Li , Wenhao Jiang

Referring image segmentation aims to predict the foreground mask of the object referred by a natural language sentence. Multimodal context of the sentence is crucial to distinguish the referent from the background. Existing methods either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Tianrui Hui , Si Liu , Shaofei Huang , Guanbin Li , Sansi Yu , Faxi Zhang , Jizhong Han

In clinical practice, segmenting specific lesions based on the needs of physicians can significantly enhance diagnostic accuracy and treatment efficiency. However, conventional lesion segmentation models lack the flexibility to distinguish…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shuyi Ouyang , Jinyang Zhang , Xiangye Lin , Xilai Wang , Qingqing Chen , Yen-Wei Chen , Lanfen Lin

Multimodal referring segmentation aims to segment target objects in visual scenes, such as images, videos, and 3D scenes, based on referring expressions in text or audio format. This task plays a crucial role in practical applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Henghui Ding , Song Tang , Shuting He , Chang Liu , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) excel at semantic understanding but struggle with fine grained spatial grounding, as the model must implicitly infer complex geometry without ever producing a spatial interpretation. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yuchen Li , Amanmeet Garg , Shalini Chaudhuri , Rui Zhao , Garin Kessler

Referring image segmentation, the task of segmenting any arbitrary entities described in free-form texts, opens up a variety of vision applications. However, manual labeling of training data for this task is prohibitively costly, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Dongwon Kim , Namyup Kim , Cuiling Lan , Suha Kwak

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown exceptional capabilities in vision-language tasks; however, effectively integrating image segmentation into these models remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Mengcheng Lan , Chaofeng Chen , Yue Zhou , Jiaxing Xu , Yiping Ke , Xinjiang Wang , Litong Feng , Wayne Zhang

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) links language to region level visual perception. Standard benchmarks (RefCOCO, RefCOCO+, RefCOCOg) have progressed rapidly with multimodal LLMs but remain weak tests of visual reasoning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Qihua Dong , Kuo Yang , Lin Ju , Handong Zhao , Yitian Zhang , Yizhou Wang , Huimin Zeng , Jianglin Lu , Yun Fu

We present Moondream Segmentation, a referring image segmentation extension of Moondream 3, a vision-language model. Given an image and a referring expression, the model autoregressively decodes a vector path and iteratively refines the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Ethan Reid

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

It is widely agreed that open-vocabulary-based approaches outperform classical closed-set training solutions for recognizing unseen objects in images for semantic segmentation. Existing open-vocabulary approaches leverage vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Huadong Tang , Youpeng Zhao , Yan Huang , Min Xu , Jun Wang , Qiang Wu